Alison Returns! Lunching in the City, Photographing Lower Manhattan, Author Lauren Groff, The Value of the College Degree in 2023
Our host Alison Stewart returns, and shares what she enjoyed doing most while she recovered from kidney donation... going out to lunch! She is joined by Eater New York editor and critic Robert Sietsema to discuss some of the best lunch spots in the city, and we take your calls.
Barbara Mensch is a Brooklyn-born photographer who for years has wandered around her home city taking pictures. Her latest collection explores the archives of her work around Lower Manhattan, and how the area changed from the 80s, 90s, and into a post 9/11 world. A Falling-Off Place: The Transformation of Lower Manhattan features images of scenes like the Fulton Fish Market near the Brooklyn Bridge, construction of glamorous housing that would replace blue collar homes in the neighborhood, and the destruction that laid in the aftermath of 9/11. Mensch is with us in studio to discuss the book and her practice.
Celebrated novelist Lauren Groff is back with a new historical novel. The Vaster Wilds follows a girl in colonial era America who has to figure out how to survive on her own in the wilderness. Groff joins us to discuss the novel.
Event: Groff will be speaking at Books Are Magic on 9/12 in conversation with Miranda July.
Insider recently reported that four million fewer teenagers enrolled in college in 2022 than in 2012. Several companies including Google, Delta Air Lines, and IBM are rethinking strict degree requirements. Does this mean that college degrees are losing their value? We navigate what these trends mean for higher education institutions and the workforce with Fast Company senior editor Christopher Zara who wrote Uneducated: A Memoir of Flunking Out, Falling Apart, and Finding My Worth and NPR correspondent Elissa Nadworny. We also take your calls.
