Coming up on today's show:

• Now that there has been an arrest in some of the murders, Robert Kolker, journalist and the author of Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery (Harper, 2013) and Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Doubleday, 2020), and Crystal DeBoise, psychotherapist and co-founder and director of strategic partnerships for Decriminalize Sex Work, talk about the lives of the victims found on Gilgo Beach, the vulnerabilities specific to sex workers and what's changed for those workers in the years since the bodies were discovered.
  
  
• Oliver Franklin-Wallis, author of Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, and Why It Matters (Hachette Books, 2023) and features editor for British GQ magazine, outlines the cost to the environment of everything we discard, as well as efforts to address the crisis.
  
  
• Manhattan's real estate market for office buildings may be in for a big shock as more leases are expiring and post-pandemic hybrid working patterns mean businesses don't need as much space. Andrew Rice, contributing editor at New York Magazine and author of The Year That Broke America: An Immigration Crisis, a Terrorist Conspiracy, the Summer of Survivor, a Ridiculous Fake Billionaire, a Fight for Florida, and the 537 Votes That Changed Everything (Harper, 2022), talks about what a potential crash would do to New York City's economy and character.
  
  
• A recent New York Times article shows that the number of Americans dying each day is now normal—a sign that the pandemic is officially over. But remnants of COVID-19 still remain. Listeners share what aspects of daily life have not returned to normal since the start of lockdown in 2020.