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Cazenovia College, a small private institution in Cazenovia, New York, announced on December 7th, 2022 that it would close after the spring 2023 semester.As the college prepares for closure, we’ll speak with Cazenovia College President David Bergh and a third-year student about their upcoming last semester at the college.

For all its tidings of comfort and joy, the holiday season is a difficult time for some. On this week's 51%, we take a look at some ways to combat loneliness this time of year, and therapist Keli Rugenstein shares how parents of estranged adult children can find peace.

Emily St. John Mandel is the award-winning, best-selling author of “Station Eleven” and “The Glass Hotel” She returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon 500-years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. Her new book is “Sea of Tranquility.”

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history. In her new novel, "Horse," Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Geraldine Brooks braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history.

(Airs 12/22/22 @ 3 p.m. & 12/24/22 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with with Yancey Roy, Albany Bureau Chief for Newsday.

(Airs 12/15/22 @ 3 p.m. & 12/17/22 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC’s Alan Chartock speakswith Blair Horner, Executive Director of the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG).

(Airs 12/16/22 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: New York lawmakers consider giving themselves a pay raise before the end of the year, our political observer Alan Chartock speaks with Blair Horner, Executive Director of NYPIRG about politics of a potential pay raise for legislators, and a New York Congressman pushes legislation to crack down on Grinch Bots.

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.

Like Conrad, Nabokov, and Beckett, this novelist—In the Distance, Trust— writes in a language other than what he spoke as a child, and it helps him see the world afresh: “If you move out of one language and into another, it is like moving out of one country and into another.” A conversation at Rizzoli Bookstore.

“Many people think that the big words are the big part of the dictionary, but it’s the little words that are so full of life and variation and complexity,” says this lexicographer. A conversation about “go” and more as Person Place Thing becomes Word Word Word.