On the Radio

Gibson’s radio work includes co-hosting the podcast There Goes the Neighborhood, guest hosting various news programs for WNYC, and reading original essays for Live From Here as well as NPR’s All Things Considered.

Live From Here

All Things Considered

There’s nothing scarier than having someone you love turn on you. For author DW Gibson, that someone was Roald Dahl, who, in addition to children’s books, wrote short stories that are truly terrifying.

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Midday on WNYC

Elizabeth Warren, U.S. State Senator from Massachusetts, discusses her book, This Fight Is Our Fight, which looks at the current battle over America’s middle class and how to save it.

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Emmy Award-winning MSNBC host Chris Hayes discusses his book A Colony in a Nation. Hayes argues that the U.S. is drifting towards a police state that venerates the law and prioritizes order over civil rights. He examines the surge in crime that began in the 1960's and peaked in the 1990's, and the decline that followed. Through reporting and research, he looks at how fear causes us to make dangerous and unfortunate choices, both in our society and at the personal level.

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Stanley Tucci discusses his new film Final Portrait, which he wrote and directed. It tells the story of the American writer and art-lover James Lord (Armie Hammer) and his friend, the world-renowned artist Alberto Giacometti (Geoffrey Rush).

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Famed British novelist and critic Martin Amis discusses his latest book The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Reportage, 1994-2017. The collection includes 30 years of Amis’ writing on a range of topics including politics, sports, celebrity, America and literature.

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What happens when a Manhattan apartment building lobby becomes embroiled in a murder investigation? Kenneth Lonergan, the 2017 Oscar-winning writer of Manchester by the Sea, explores this in his play Lobby Hero. He joins actors Chris Evans and Bel Powley to discuss its Broadway premiere.

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Joseph O’Neill discusses his new book of stories, Good Trouble. From facial-hair trends to parental sleep deprivation, O’Neill offers a close look at his characters, whose vacillations and second thoughts expose the pettiness, latent violence, and surprising beauty of quotidian 21st-century existence.

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The Leonard Lopate Show

Jane Campion is an accomplished Oscar-winning filmmaker and director. Among her many achievements is 1993's "The Piano." She won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film as well as a Palme d'Or, making her the only female filmmaker to ever receive that honor. Campion is also the second of four women to ever be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. Campion chats with us about her life in film and her return to the small screen with her upcoming limited series, “Top of the Lake: China Girl” starring Elisabeth Moss.

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