The new Broadway revival of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play “Doubt: A Parable” stars Amy Ryan as Sister Aloysius, a nun who suspects that Father Flynn, played by Liev Schreiber, might be abusing a young boy. Ryan and Schreiber join us to discuss starring in the play from John Patrick Shanley, which is running through April 14.
When poet and social worker Stephanie Clare Smith was only 14, her mother abandoned her for a summer to go camping with her boyfriend. Smith, alone and vulnerable, was subjected to abuse in her mother’s absence. Decades later, Smith finds herself grappling with these difficult memories as she becomes her mother’s primary caretaker. Smith joins us to discuss her memoir, Everywhere the Undrowned: A Memoir of Survival and Imagination as part of our ongoing series, Mental Health Mondays.
After infamously declaring on his podcast that “spaghetti sucks,” Sporkful host Dan Pashman set about creating what he felt was the Platonic ideal of a pasta shape. Once he’d achieved that, though, he realized that his pasta needed a sauce that was its equal. He joins us to discuss his new cookbook, Anything’s Pastable, and take calls from listeners.
Established in 1955, The Village Voice is hailed as the first alternative weekly newspaper. It emerged as an important player in the NYC arts scene, documenting such groundbreaking movements as punk and hip hop as well as setting the bar for music and film criticism. Tricia Romano is the author of “The Freaks Come Out to Write: an Oral History of the Village Voice.” She joins to discuss as well as take listener calls about their memories of the beloved paper.
*This episode is guest-hosted by Matt Katz.
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