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Jacob Mikanowski is a writer and academic. His parents were Polish immigrants to the US, and he spent his childhood between Poland and Pennsylvania. He joins us to talk about his new work "Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land."

This week's Book Picks come from Suzanna Hermans of Oblong Books in Millerton and Rhinebeck, New York.

The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival continues its 25th anniversary season tonight. Festival Founder and Artistic Director Linda Chesis is here for a preview.

Automotive expert Gordon Fricke is back to help keep your wheels on the road. Call with your question. 800-348-2551. Ray Graf hosts.

Berkshire native, producer, digital music maker, and erstwhile stand-up comedian McQueen Adams will be at Studio 9 on the Porches Inn campus in North Adams, Massachusetts this Saturday and Sunday evenings, performing new songs and bits for those in attendance. The shows will be recorded as McQueen’s next album “Touch” and he’ll be joined by a cadre of comedy-and-creep adjacent characters - as embodied by artists and friends who seem very happy to be on his unique artistic journey with him.

Climate Activist Mark Dunlea has spent a lifetime on these issues and is author of the new book: "Putting Out the Planetary Fire: An Introduction to Climate Action and Advocacy." The volume provides an overview of the central issues in the climate movement: Renewable Energy, Environmental Justice, Reparations, False Climate Solutions, Real Life Barriers, carbon pricing, Green New Deal, crypto mining, plastics, and military.

Our tech guru Jesse Feiler joins us this morning to talk about digital whiteboards.

We welcome Dr. Marjorie Bunch, a neurologist and medical director of Albany Medical Center’s Adult Comprehensive Epilepsy Program. Ray Graf hosts.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are investigative journalist and visiting professor at UAlbany Rosemary Armao, immigration attorney and Partner with the Albany law firm of Whiteman Osterman & Hanna Cianna Freeman-Tolbert, Tetherless World Chair of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences and Founding Director of the Future of Computing Institute at RPI Jim Hendler.

In Tom Rachman's "The Imposters," Dora Frenhofer, a once successful but now aging and embittered novelist, knows her mind is going. She is determined, however, to finish her final book, and reverse her fortunes, before time runs out. Alone in her London home during the pandemic, she creates, and is in turn created by, the fascinating real characters from her own life.