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Jennifer Egan’s new novel, “The Candy House,” is a sibling novel to her Pulitzer-Prize and National Book Critics Circle-winning “A Visit from The Goon Squad.” It asks big questions about the totalizing and flattening effects of digital culture, privacy, and surveillance. It is a place where people can upload their actual memories, and let other people live in theirs.

The fragile, 1952 postwar tranquility of a young boy’s world explodes one summer day when a leopard escapes from the Oklahoma City Zoo, throwing all the local residents into dangerous excitement, in Stephen Harrigan’s story of a child’s confrontation with his deepest fears. His new novel is “The Leopard is Loose.”

Each Wednesday and Sunday evening at 8 p.m. “Live At The Linda” brings you some of the best musical acts to grace the stage at The Linda - WAMC's Performing Arts Studio. This week, we’re going on a road trip from New Orleans to New York, featuring artists Lilli Lewis, Nora Jane Struthers and Drew Jacobs. We’ll also hear from South African pop sensation Jann Klose, who will be taking The Linda stage on May 21st.

Esteemed as both a scholar and an activist, Frances Fox Piven spent nearly 90 years working for social justice, if you count her first few years, and I do: when she was four, she had a clear (and unpopular) position on the Soviet-Finnish war. She’s since revised it. That’s being open minded.

(Airs 05/19/22 @ 1 p.m.) An encore airing of WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation with Clarinetist, Award-Winning Photographer and Author Arlene Alda about her book Just Kids from the Bronx.

(Airs 05/19/22 @ 3 p.m. & 05/21/22 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with New York State Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples Stokes about the mass shooting in Buffalo this week.

Each Wednesday and Sunday evening at 8 p.m. “Live At The Linda” brings you some of the best musical acts to grace the stage at The Linda - WAMC's Performing Arts Studio. This week is country night featuring Ruby Boots, Charlie Parr and Chuck Cannon.

Playlist as aired on May 7th, 2022

Mother's Day weekend brings the first quarter moon. Those events seem disparate, but they're actually linked. After all, the moon is feminine in most cultures. Hear how the the lunar day-night line is home to all the details.

(Airs 05/12/22 @ 3 p.m. & 05/14/22 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with Westchester County Executive George Latimer.