No, It Doesn't Stand for 'Taco Bell'

Ha ha, get it?

Today, Double L interviews Andrea Barrett, author of the new novel The Air We Breathe, a Hallmark card set in 1916 at a public sanatorium for tuberculosis sufferers in upstate New York. Hot new literary device par excellence: "plural first-person omniscient narrator." Learn more at:

Gray Skies Are Gonna Clear Up!

Cheery!

Our latest installment of the Leonard Lopate show features our hero (...Leonard Lopate) interrogating that feckless chronicler of maritime history, Marcus Rediker, whose latest rollicking romp, The Slave Ship: A Human History, catalogues the trans-Atlantic trade in people and how it contributed to the development of modern capitalism, among other things. Let's listen in, shall we?

Grand Marquis

"C'est moi, bitches"

Welcome to the first installment of our unwitting, involuntary, and wholly coincidental relationship with the Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC. An interview with James R. Gaines, author of For Liberty and Glory, a scintillating new look at the relationship between George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette: