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In the past four decades, beloved American cartoonist, children’s author, and Platinum-selling songwriter/producer Sandra Boynton has sold over 85 million books and is a staple of storytime, bedtime, and everything in between! This Fall, Simon and Schuster is introducing Boynton Bookworks, a new imprint devoted to Boynton's past and future works.

The story of the model, actress, and American icon Edie Sedgwick is told by her sister with empathy, insight, and firsthand observations of her meteoric life in the new book, "As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy."

Dr. Douglas Tumen of Hudson Valley Foot Associates joins us to take your foot health questions. The number to call is 1-800-348-2551. You can also email your questions to voxpop@wamc.org.WAMC's Ray Graf hosts.

Rich Guthrie and Julie Hart join us to talk birds today. Give us a call. 800-348-2551. WAMC's Ray Graf hosts.

In today’s Congressional Corner, Democratic candidate Josh Riley of New York’s 19th district wraps up his conversation with WAMC’s Alan Chartock.

Vermont is about to have a new Congressperson. In today’s Congressional Corner, Vermont Senate Pro Tem Becca Balint, a Democratic candidate for U.S. House, speaks with WAMC’s Alan Chartock.

Tomorrow is the first day of October. Before January and February were added to the Roman calendar, October was the eighth month of the year (hence the prefix “octo-”) but it’s now the tenth month. To commemorate the start of a month with a (now) misleading name, our questions this week are about other things with misleading names.

Each weekday morning, WAMC’s President and CEO and Political Observer, Alan Chartock, and Roundtable Host Joe Donahue are joined by various experts, journalists, educators, and commentators to discuss current events. On Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review, we feature your favorite panelists discussing news items from the previous week.

Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. He won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, was an All-American football player at the Carlisle Indian School, the star of the first class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and played major league baseball for John McGraw’s New York Giants. Even in a golden age of sports celebrities, he was one of a kind. David Maraniss' biography of Thorpe is "Path Lit by Lightning."

Iuliia Mendel is a Ukrainian journalist who served as press secretary and spokesperson for Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, from 2019 until 2021. Her book is "The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World."