Billie Marten, Intergenerational Family Travel, Asian-American Mental Health, Ethan Hawke Discusses His New Film
All Of It with Alison Stewart | May 6, 2024
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The final day to send a song into the Public Song Project is May 12! Billie Marten stops by to share her version of the Bessie Smith hit, "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" for the project. You can stream the song and others from Rhiannon Giddens, They Might Be Giants, and more on the Public Song Project website and also find out how to get involved yourself. Then AOI producer Simon Close marks the final week of submissions by revisiting some songs that stood out from the 2023 edition of the Public Song Project.
It's one thing to travel with friends or a significant other, it's another to a plan a trip that you, mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, the kids, or that one uncle will also enjoy. Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure news editor, gives us some tips on how to plan an intergenerational vacation, and take your calls.
Soo Jin Lee and Linda Yoon, co-directors of the Asian American psychotherapist group called the Yellow Chair Collective, recently wrote a new book, Where I Belong. In this installation of Mental Health Mondays, we talk to Lee and Yoon about this new guidebook, and how it serves to help Asian and Asian-American communities tackle mental health challenges and how to heal from cycles of generational trauma. Plus, we take calls from our listeners.
The new film "Wildcat" focuses on the life and work of a young Flannery O'Connor, who heads home to visit her mother amidst a struggle to get her first novel published. We're joined by co-writer and director Ethan Hawke, who directed his own daughter Maya. The film also stars Laura Linney.
*This episode is guest-hosted by Tiffany Hanssen
