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NYC Mayors: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly: Andrew Kirtzman and Terry Golway
NYC Mayors: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly: Andrew Kirtzman and Terry Golway
Page Hall, University at Albany Downtown Campus
Moderated by Paul Grondahl, Director NYS Writers Institute
A conversation about the colorful parade of characters who have served as mayor of New York City -- the brilliant and the incompetent, the virtuous and the corrupt, the boring and the bizarre.
Andrew Kirtzman is the author of Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America's Mayor (paperback, 2023), a New Yorker Best Book of the Year. The Guardian called it "masterful and engrossing," and the Los Angeles Times said it "cuts through the myth and caricature that has too often defined Giuliani." An Emmy-winning former reporter for NY1, Kirtzman has covered Giuliani for three decades. His earlier biography, Rudy Giuliani: The Emperor of the City (2000)- published in paperback one year later with an added chapter about September 11th- remains the definitive portrait of the mayor at the height of his career.
Terry Golway is the author of I Never Did Like Politics: How Fiorello La Guardia Became America's Mayor, and Why He Still Matters (Feb. 2024), a hugely entertaining book about a mayor who, Golway argues, remains a model of public service to be emulated in our own times. Harold Holzer calls it, "A delightful man-behind-the-myth account of the iconic 'Little Flower'―as unlikely and as successful a mayor as New York City has ever elected." A longtime writer and editor at the New York Times, New York Observer, and Politico, Golway is the author of many acclaimed books, including Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics (2014).
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Prachi Gupta, author of They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us (2023)
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Prachi Gupta March 5, 2024 University at Albany Moderated by Heather Murphy Prachi Gupta is the author of They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us (2023), a memoir about growing up in an ambitious Indian-American immigrant family; the pressures to over-achieve and belong; the special hell of the “model minority” stereotype; and the hidden shame of mental illness and personal tr...
Author Michael Wolff, "The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty," and "Fire and Fury"
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Michael Wolff Thursday, April 25, 2024 Page Hall, University at Albany Downtown Campus 135 Western Avenue, Albany NY 12203 Moderated by Casey Seiler, Editor of the Albany Times Union Michael Wolff blew the lid off the Trump White House with his 2018 book Fire and Fury - written after being granted unprecedented access as a “fly on the wall” observer inside the West Wing throughout most of the f...
Richard Mirabella, novelist
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Richard Mirabella Thursday, February 29, 2024 University at Albany Performing Arts Center Moderated by Jack Rightmyer, author and freelance journalist Richard Mirabella is the author of the debut novel, Brother & Sister Enter the Forest (2023), a queer coming-of-age novel about a young man’s relationship with a violent older boyfriend-and how he and his sister survive a terrible crime. The book...
Black Life in the North Woods: Amy Godine and Alice Green
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Black Life in the North Woods: Amy Godine and Alice Green Thursday, March 14, 2024 Albany Public Library Moderated by NYS Writers Institute Director Paul Grondahl A conversation about the Black history of the Adirondack Mountains with historian Amy Godine and legendary civil rights activist Alice Green. Amy Godine is the author of The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Front...
Karin Lin-Greenberg, novelist and short story writer
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Karin Lin-Greenberg Thursday, February 22, 2024 University at Albany Moderated by NYS Writers Institute Director Paul Grondahl Karin Lin-Greenberg is the author of You Are Here (2023), a debut novel about the residents of a small Upstate New York town who must grapple with the impending closure of a once-bustling shopping mall. The novel appeared on numerous “Best of” lists throughout 2023, inc...
Julia Alvarez, writer and poet
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Julia Alvarez Thursday, April 18, 2024 University at Albany Moderated by Alejandra Bronfman, UAlbany Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies Julia Alvarez is one of America’s most acclaimed and best-loved fiction writers and poets. Her novels about the Dominican and Dominican-American experiences have not only inspired new generations of Latinx authors, they have also helped to enlarge ...
David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
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David Wallace-Wells Tuesday, April 16, 2024 University at Albany Moderated by Judith Enck, former EPA administrator and founder of Beyond Plastics. David Wallace-Wells is the author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, a #1 New York Times bestseller, published in 2019 and available in a 2023 Young Adult edition in 2023. The book argues that the state of the world, environmentally spe...
Alice McDermott, National Book Award winning novelist
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Alice McDermott Thursday, April 11, 2024 University at Albany Moderated by NYS Writers Institute Assistant Director Mark Koplik Alice McDermott, one of the leading novelists of her generation, is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Absolution (2023), about the lives of American women on the margins of the Vietnam War. Wives have appeared as minor characters in Vietnam War fiction, but ...
William Wegman, artist, photographer, lover of Weimaraner dogs
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Recorded Tuesday, February 27, 2024 Moderated by WAMC's Joe Donahue Main Theatre, UAlbany Performing Arts Center University at Albany William Wegman is a beloved American artist known throughout the world for photographs and videos that feature his Weimaraner dogs in a variety of costumes and poses. Wegman's work is held in the permanent collections of major museums, including the Museum of Mod...
Ed Mitzen & Jahkeen Hoke in conversation with Paul Grondahl
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Cosponsored by the Albany Black Chamber of Commerce and Business for Good. Ed Mitzen is the founder and CEO of Fingerpaint Group, a pharmaceutical marketing agency based in Saratoga Springs. His businesses have earned more than $1 billion. A believer in intentional philanthropy, Mitzen also co-founded the award-winning nonprofit Business for Good with his wife, Lisa. His new book is Wealthy and...
Aaliyah Bilal, author of the story collection, Temple Folk
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Aaliyah Bilal’s debut story collection, Temple Folk (2023), is a groundbreaking portrait of the lived experiences of Black Muslims-a community rarely featured in U.S. literature-as they grapple with the challenges of faith, family, and freedom in America. Bilal, who grew up in a Black Muslim family outside Washington, D.C., presents a diverse cast of flawed, heroic, and memorable characters. Ed...
The Moral Arc Toward Freedom with NYS Poet Patricia Spears Jones and historian Jennifer Burns
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A program of readings and conversation featuring New York State Poet Patricia Spears Jones and Jennifer Burns, PhD, lecturer in Africana Studies at the University at Albany. The event was organized in conjunction with the New York State Museum and showcased both Abraham Lincoln's preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation (Sept. 22, 1862), the only surviving Proclamation document in Lin...
Sandra Guzman, in conversation with Alejandra Bronfman
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Sandra Guzmán, Afro-Indigenous storyteller and literary editor, discussed her anthology, Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women (2023), a dazzling collection of essential works by 140 Latin American and indigenous writers- many of them translated into English for the first time. Kirkus Reviews called it, “A significant collection of Latine women's voic...
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Paul Harding
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Paul Harding’s 2023 novel is This Other Eden, based on the true story of a multiracial community that took refuge from intolerance on an island off the coast of Maine from 1792 to 1912. The novel presents the lives and experiences of a formerly enslaved Black man and his Irish wife, and multiple generations of their descendants and fellow islanders. Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize, This O...
Phil Caruso: 40 years of award-winning feature film photos
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Phil Caruso: 40 years of award-winning feature film photos
Novelist Elizabeth Graver
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Novelist Elizabeth Graver
Rodrigo García, moderator Mark Koplik
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Rodrigo García, moderator Mark Koplik
Jane Curtin in conversation with WAMC's Joe Donahue
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Jane Curtin in conversation with WAMC's Joe Donahue
Telling the Truth 2023: The American Presidency Panel with Franklin Foer and Miles Taylor
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Telling the Truth 2023: The American Presidency Panel with Franklin Foer and Miles Taylor
Telling the Truth 2023: The American Backlash with Juliet Hooker and Jeff Sharlet
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Telling the Truth 2023: The American Backlash with Juliet Hooker and Jeff Sharlet
Novelist Richard Russo
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Novelist Richard Russo
Award-winning fiction writer and essayist Peter Orner
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Award-winning fiction writer and essayist Peter Orner
Nana Kwame Adjei Brenyah, novelist
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Nana Kwame Adjei Brenyah, novelist
Sarah Giragosian and David Goldsmith: The “journey” of making a book
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Sarah Giragosian and David Goldsmith: The “journey” of making a book
Lyzette Wanzer: The complexities of Black identity with respect to hair
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Lyzette Wanzer: The complexities of Black identity with respect to hair
Environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben
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Environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben
Rachel Luna: Writer, journaling workshop leader, entrepreneur
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Rachel Luna: Writer, journaling workshop leader, entrepreneur
Novelist Jennifer Egan
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Novelist Jennifer Egan
David Barclay Moore, author of The Stars Beneath Our Feet, and Holler of the Fireflies
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David Barclay Moore, author of The Stars Beneath Our Feet, and Holler of the Fireflies

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @TheJamalThomas
    @TheJamalThomas 3 дні тому

    amazing film

  • @rushman2k3
    @rushman2k3 3 дні тому

    Did he not know he was being recorded and his marks or is this just cropped poorly

  • @KatyYoder-cq1kc
    @KatyYoder-cq1kc 5 днів тому

    Cease and desist malicious of AI: global Nazis, terrorists, communists, supremacists and militia

  • @fredmyott849
    @fredmyott849 6 днів тому

    As a bus driver for 35 years you never know

  • @MT-or7lv
    @MT-or7lv 7 днів тому

    Cool waves and a tasty buzz.

  • @BethHolden-yu4we
    @BethHolden-yu4we 7 днів тому

    Since reading his book several years ago I have considered David Wallace-Wells one of the most important voices on the subject of climate change. But his answer to the question on the value of individual action is a great disappointment. He seems to believe that political action is more valuable. But for us to rely on politicians and large corporations to solve the problem while we continue to live our lives as though we can do nothing about it is childish and self serving and ultimately suicidal. Should we all stop voting because it’s just one out of millions? If we keep buying the product they will keep drilling for it!

  • @sexypastinos325
    @sexypastinos325 11 днів тому

    Great info! Thanks for the insights stay safe

  • @KatyYoder-cq1kc
    @KatyYoder-cq1kc 11 днів тому

    Cease and desist malicious of AI: global Nazis, terrorists, communists, supremacists and militia

  • @user-xp4vr9zv5t
    @user-xp4vr9zv5t 13 днів тому

    Extension chords, that brought me back…

  • @EricSepulveda
    @EricSepulveda 15 днів тому

    Gau

  • @KatyYoder-cq1kc
    @KatyYoder-cq1kc 17 днів тому

    NOW ON LIFE SUPPORT: There is intensive mind control taking place using AI maliciously through satellite and biochemical warfare by supremacists, terrorists and communists. Please report to the highest level of governing bodies and intelligence agencies. I have been poisoned, harassed physically and mentally, raped by lesbians and ignored by the police, agencies and churches nationally as have my children. I and am under constant attack from my government and international WOKE military

  • @KatyYoder-cq1kc
    @KatyYoder-cq1kc 19 днів тому

    Cease and desist malicious of AI: global Nazis, terrorists, communists, supremacists and militia

  • @KatyYoder-cq1kc
    @KatyYoder-cq1kc 19 днів тому

    Cease and desist malicious of AI: global Nazis, terrorists, supremacists and militia 1

  • @KatyYoder-cq1kc
    @KatyYoder-cq1kc 19 днів тому

    Cease and desist malicious of AI: global Nazis, terrorists, supremacists and militia

  • @user-rs4gr9yq4u
    @user-rs4gr9yq4u Місяць тому

    I'd ask him what he thought of Mark "Cutback" Davis and Bob "Jungle Death" Gerard?

  • @Johnrap
    @Johnrap Місяць тому

    Cubs won in 2016.

  • @bradsegee1069
    @bradsegee1069 Місяць тому

    Love Bill. Such a treasure

  • @YouConnolly
    @YouConnolly Місяць тому

    Why does the left always spread solutions that hurt people? Read Thomas Sowell and throw this book in the garbage.

  • @debbiec6216
    @debbiec6216 Місяць тому

    I watched all their the TV shows of Little House on the Prairie , including Repeat. I bought all the Little House Books , read them in the early 1980's . I even watched the 2 hour ( last ) Movie . And years later , named my Daughter After "Laura" Ingalls . I was really Obsessed for the TV shows, Movie, etcc.

  • @jonaiastuiguridi7153
    @jonaiastuiguridi7153 Місяць тому

    I've just finished 'Down under', about Australia, and I know it's a book I'll be reading again some day.

  • @jerometaperman7102
    @jerometaperman7102 Місяць тому

    The fact that Trump only "wins" golf tournaments put on by his own clubs is a yuge tell that he cheats. If he is such a good golfer, let him enter a PGA tournament where he HAS to play by the rules. Something tells me he wouldn't even come close to qualifying.

  • @siddharthamukherjee1996
    @siddharthamukherjee1996 Місяць тому

    Jayne Anne Phillips’ Night Watch, a mother-daughter saga set in a West Virginia asylum after the civil war, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction 2024. Congratulations 🎉

  • @dotcomGone
    @dotcomGone Місяць тому

    Wtf re: masturbating Edit: just keep watching until at least 23:00

  • @user-om9ix2lh3t
    @user-om9ix2lh3t 2 місяці тому

    Sean Penn is an iconic actor/director.Bar none....

  • @johnshea3130
    @johnshea3130 2 місяці тому

    I found the ad for Last of the Red Hot Lovers starring George Gobel when Jane was in the cast. Please forward to her, Joe. Great interview, thank you ! Coincidentally, July 17 is my birthday. See ad among several others in this link: drewfriedman.blogspot.com/2019/03/more-of-last-of-red-hot-lovers.html

  • @opabinnier
    @opabinnier 2 місяці тому

    CP writing drafts in longhand, oldstyle, made my eyes pop out! Odd how alien that already seems to me now- despite the acres of it I did previously. I now suppose that when I write on my laptop I still feel the same... though the computer IS great for editing and honing! I do not know where would I be without that facility!

  • @MindfulLivingMatters
    @MindfulLivingMatters 2 місяці тому

    Great interview! She’s very likable, quick-witted, and so well-spoken. And she seems down to earth and well-grounded. Sure do love Little House! Amazing how it helped shape the cast members lives, as well the lives as all of those who watched. Grateful to Michael Landon and the cast and crew for crewing so a wholesome and enjoyable show. 🙏😊

  • @macandrewes
    @macandrewes 2 місяці тому

    This woman is evil. Racist and sexist to the very core and enabled by guilt ridden white sjws. She should be charged with hate crimes.

  • @ohboy9077
    @ohboy9077 2 місяці тому

    🐰

  • @unyalimon
    @unyalimon 2 місяці тому

    Trump, the most despicable scumbag, terrorist and varsity TRAITOR. Scum of the earth (my deepest apologies to all scum). He's the most pathetically mentally ill clown imaginable, a sociopath's sociopath, a man who makes America's worst criminals look like Boy Scouts. What a horror show.

  • @noelwood4169
    @noelwood4169 2 місяці тому

    Sean Penn's early cinematic effort may have given the false impression that he primarily was a comedic actor. Did anyone even remember him from Taps? He was hilarious in I Am Sam, despite going "full retard."

  • @blugreen123
    @blugreen123 2 місяці тому

    Poor Milton Milton. I wonder where he is now. 😂

  • @Svenadri
    @Svenadri 2 місяці тому

    So I was blocked by Ijeoma Oluo on her Facebook page because I commented on her post that I, a mixed race Black woman, experienced less support because I failed to meet the criteria for the “perfect victim” - the topic of Ijeoma’s post. I had a post in August 2020 with a similar theme to her post from yesterday about abused animals eliciting more sympathy than abused humans. I cited myself as an example. I was racially oppressed by a whyte woman and wannabe whyte woman and started a petition to raise awareness of it. I noticed that there weren’t many people who look like me who supported me, and mentioned that DiDi Delgado even insulted me in a comment. I didn’t know that DiDi Delgado and Ijeoma were BFFs so I didn’t expect Ijeoma to block me, but she did. The irony of not meeting her criteria for empathy is not lost on me. This is why we as Black women will not have the collective strength to effect meaningful social change. We are a house divided. The difference between myself, Ijeoma, DiDi Delgado and all the other Blacktivists is that I am a private person who has thus far not monetized my pain in the form of a book, a podcast, or even a Facebook page. I have no books to sell anyone. I have not made one red cent out of the pain caused by all the racist oppression I have endured. I speak the truth from my lived experience and I made the mistake of commenting on Ijeoma’s Facebook page that her friend, DiDi Delgado, hurt me, a NOBODY. So she does what any neurotypical woman would do - she blocks me as if I was the BAD person for talking about what bothers me.

  • @7750DAVID
    @7750DAVID 2 місяці тому

    LIV Golf (Saudi Arabia) - PGA supports Golf Cheat...Tax Cheat.. SHAMELESS..

  • @calmerthanyou6180
    @calmerthanyou6180 2 місяці тому

    Yet another group of stories that will be ignored by right wing hypocrites. A man that cheats at golf, especially to this extent,has no honor and no desire to better himself as a man and as a competitor. These stories are very consistent with his sore loser attitude after the 2020 election. This man has never been called out or held accountable for his low life cheating ways and when he finally was,he acted like a spoiled brat. Donald Trump is a Grade A certified piece of 💩 LOSER.

  • @denisemarsetti8907
    @denisemarsetti8907 2 місяці тому

    Livre magnifique. A lire absolument !

  • @davidshaffer4649
    @davidshaffer4649 2 місяці тому

    Parents,this is what happens when you never tell your children no.

  • @user-vw4ll6ky1e
    @user-vw4ll6ky1e 2 місяці тому

    I love her.

  • @user-dk5ep2pm2p
    @user-dk5ep2pm2p 2 місяці тому

    Wow, he's racist and hateful as fuck.

  • @jensonee
    @jensonee 2 місяці тому

    traitor trump, not a moral fiber in his body.

  • @DrTonyaBreauxShropshire
    @DrTonyaBreauxShropshire 2 місяці тому

    Unfortunately, I missed an opportunity to have a conversation with him at the New Orleans Book Festivial 2024. Looking forward to talking with him about the trilogy at the next one.

  • @kaseybrown4665
    @kaseybrown4665 2 місяці тому

    Everyone knows someone to SHARE this with

  • @claudioferrero8350
    @claudioferrero8350 2 місяці тому

    R.I.P, Christopher Durang. Gracias por todo el teatro y el humor que nos brindaste.

  • @kalikalimai1
    @kalikalimai1 2 місяці тому

    This is excellent talk. by a man of integrity. About trump cheating, us normals are left with our chins hanging down to our chest, squinting at him, and through embarrassment people don't know how to deal with such audacity, so are left gobsmacked at the effrontery, the hutzpah to lie. The key word, in my opinion is "embarrassment"; he knows this, relies on the "good mannners" of people to act with continued impunity. So. he's always ahead of the game. There is nothing normal about this; it's an ab*min^tion.

  • @davidlang9939
    @davidlang9939 2 місяці тому

    WATCH UR BACK ON THE COURSE, RICK, THERES ALOTTA SNIPER BUSHES FOR TRUMP TO PAY A HITMAN TO SILENCE U FROM FOREVER!!

  • @alanwayte432
    @alanwayte432 2 місяці тому

    Do you remember when running for President he criticised Obama and said he would not have time to play Golf..and today he is selling Bibles at $60

  • @alanwayte432
    @alanwayte432 2 місяці тому

    I saw Trump play in a Scotland, he looks good for his age but judging his actual play I would say he was at least playing off 15 , good for a 78 yr old

    • @alanwayte432
      @alanwayte432 2 місяці тому

      Revision the story about the 4” Green Tee makes perfect sense from what I saw so I will now say he plays off 20

  • @Fatdaddy862
    @Fatdaddy862 2 місяці тому

    To cheat on a golf course, ⛳️ 🤣 cheat on his wife.

  • @user-pw3dt4rl5c
    @user-pw3dt4rl5c 2 місяці тому

    None of this is surprising. Why does anyone play with him?

  • @TREEMUSIC617
    @TREEMUSIC617 2 місяці тому

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