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Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich’s new book is a ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors. “The Sentence” asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book.

Every year students around the country work hard, sacrifice, and study to earn their PhD. But is earning that ultimate degree worth it?Next time on The Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll hear an archival interview with a pair of professors who think the PhD as it currently exists is a relic that needs to be rebuilt from the bottom up.We’ll also spend an Academic Minute with higher ed mergers.

(Airs 11/05/21 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Republicans and conservatives claim victory in the rejection of three ballot proposals that would have expanded voting in the state, our political observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on the Republican’s big win in New York and around the country, and we’ll have a conversation with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, November 6th, 2021.

Tonight on Person Place Thing: Graphic artist Bobby C. Martin Jr. is a cofounder of Champions Design. His clients include Apple, the NBA, the Girl Scouts. He traces his love for design to the baseball cards and comic books of his childhood.

Bestselling author Francine Prose’s latest “The Vixen,” (Harper Collins) set in the glamorous world of 1950s New York publishing, is the story of a young man tasked with editing a steamy bodice-ripper based on the recent trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg - an assignment that will reveal the true cost of entering such a world.

(Airs 11/19/21 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: After a vote by the state ethics commission, former Governor Andrew Cuomo may have to return at least part of the $5.1 million he was paid for his Covid-19 leadership book, our political observer Alan Chartock on his conversation with Republican Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay, and the recently passed $1.2 trillion federal infrastructure package includes several measures related to limousine safety.

(Airs 11/21/21 @ 6 p.m. & 11/22/21 @ 3 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock, former Times Union Editor Rex Smith, Barbara Lombardo, former Editor of the Saratogian and a Journalism Professor at the University at Albany, and Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Barbara, Ira, and Rex talk about localizing the climate crisis, what to do when you get a story wrong, a new documentary on local news that’s a must watch, and more.

On this week’s 51%, we speak with some of the writers and filmmakers in the Carey Institute for Global Good’s Logan Nonfiction Program. Documentary filmmaker Ilse Fernandez previews her upcoming film, Exodus Stories. And we also speak with reporter Deborah Barfield Berry of the USA Today.

James McMullan has created images for magazine stories, books for adults and children, record covers, US stamps, murals and animated films - this week on Person Place Thing - a conversation about illustrators, editors, and art directors.