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Sunday night, May 15, we see a total eclipse of the moon. It is especially welcome because for the last couple of years every lunar eclipse has been penumbral, meaning the moon failed to touch even the edge of Earth’s shadow.

When improv artist Anthony Veneziale—he co-created Freestyle Love Supreme with Lin-Manuel Miranda—got a guitar from his wife, he yearned to play at bedtime for their two young daughters. “They were like, ‘Could you stop? Could you just cuddle?’” The ups and downs—but mostly ups—of an actor’s life.

WAMC Listening Party playlist as aired on Saturday, June 11th, 2022:

(Airs 06/16/22 @ 3 p.m. & 06/18/22 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Blair Horner, Executive Director of the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) about the end of the state legislative session.

The Big Bang theory, strongly supported by the cosmic microwave background and the cosmic expansion rate, says that starting 13.8 billion years ago, everything initially raced away from everything else like an inflating balloon.

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.