Joe Donahue
Host, The Roundtable and The BookshowJoe talks to people on the radio for a living. In addition to countless impressive human "gets" - he has talked to a lot of Muppets. Joe grew up in Philadelphia, has been on the area airwaves for more than 25 years and currently lives in Washington County, NY with his wife, Kelly, and their dog, Brady. And yes, he reads every single book.
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This week's Book Picks come from James Conrad from The Golden Notebook in Woodstock, NY and Lily Bartels from Open Door Bookstore in Schenectady, NY. -
"This Shining Night" is a choral concert from the Berkshire Concert Choir bookended by two different settings of James Agee's poem, "Sure on this Shining Night." Beginning at sunset and ending at sunrise, the program plunges deep into the human condition using the phases of the night as an extended metaphor for the complex topic of aging and memory loss.Berkshire Concert Choir will perform “This Shining Night” on Sunday May 18th at St Mark's Catholic Church in Pittsfield (Saturday Night Performance at Tanglewood’s Linde Center is sold out.) -
The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Communications expert and Founder/President of Stanhope Partners Bob Bellafiore, Public policy and communications expert Theresa Bourgeois, The Empire Report’s JP Miller, and Former Times-Union Associate Editor Mike Spain. -
In "Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece," acclaimed historian and classicist James Romm draws on personal letters of Plato—documents that have long been kept in obscurity—to show how a philosopher helped topple the leading Greek power of the era: the opulent city of Syracuse. -
Annie Hartnett is the author of “Unlikely Animals: The Novel” which won the Julia Ward Howe Prize for fiction and was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. She is also the author of “Rabbit Cake,” a finalist for the New England Book Award. Her latest novel is “The Road to Tender Hearts” which is a darkly comic and also warm hearted story about an old man on a cross-country mission to reunite with his high school crush. -
The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Preceptor in Public Speaking for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University Terry Gipson, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute Robert Pondiscio, Political Consultant Libby Post, and Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan.
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Author Jeff Kisseloff’s new book, "Rewriting HISStory," is a political history that looks to uncover the innocence of alleged Communist spy Alger Hiss. Kisseloff brings to light a wealth of original material, including 150,000 pages of mostly unredacted previously unreleased FBI files (which he sued the FBI to obtain) and other documents from government and library collections around the country. -
Jill Bialosky’s new book, "The End is the Beginning," is a moving elegy, starting with her mother’s end and the physical/cognitive decline that led her to a care home.Compounding her challenges of raising four daughters without a livelihood or partner, Iris’s life coincided with an age of unstoppable social change and reinvention, when the roles of wife and mother she was raised to inhabit ceased to be the guarantors of stability and happiness. -
"Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer's Families and the Search for a Cure" by Jennie Erin Smith is an account of a community from the remote mountains of Colombia whose rare and fatal genetic mutation is unlocking the secrets of Alzheimer’s disease.Jennie Smith will be talking about and signing the new book on Saturday, May 10 at 3 p.m. at The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza in Albany, New York. -
The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are communications expert and Founder/President of Stanhope Partners Bob Bellafiore, public policy and communications expert Theresa Bourgeois, and CEO of The Business Council of New York State Heather Mulligan.
