'Humans of New York' Goes Deeper

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 14, 2015

This segment originally aired live on October 14, 2015. An edited version was included in a best-of episode of The Brian Lehrer Show on November 27, 2015. The unedited audio can be found here.

Brandon Stanton, photographer, creator of the Humans of New York blog and the author of Humans of New York: Stories (St. Martin's Press, 2015), continues photographing every day New Yorkers, but as the new book shows, now his "man on the street" interviews are more in-depth.

→ Event: Brandon Stanton will be speaking at two upcoming events: at the Union Square Barnes and Noble tonight, October 14 at 6:00pm (details here); and at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space on Wednesday, November 4 at 7:30pm (details here).

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