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Nathan Hill’s new novel “Wellness” is a poignant and witty novel about marriage, the often-baffling pursuit of health and happiness, and the stories that bind us together. The book brings us from the gritty '90s Chicago art scene to a suburbia of detox diets and home-renovation hysteria.

Saturn never gets dazzlingly bright like Venus and Jupiter and even Mars , but there’s no planet that beats it when it comes to making people gasp with amazement. But that knock-you-over view requires a telescope. Any telescope. Even an inexpensive one, using just 60 magnification. Tune in this week to learn how to locate Saturn in the sky.

Playlist as aired on October 21, 2023

Poet and president of the Mellon foundation Elizabeth Alexander quotes her great hero June Jordan on the question artists and activists should ask: "Where is the love? What are we moving towards, not just what are we fighting against?" We’ll also hear about Watts Towers and home-cooked lasagna.

John Irving has written some of the most acclaimed books of our time, among them: “The World According to Garp,” “A Widow for One Year,” “A Prayer for Owen Meany” and “The Cider House Rules.” He now returns with his first novel in seven years “The Last Chairlift.”

This is the time of year when the Milky Way splits the sky from north to south, and passes straight overhead. If you can get to the country next week, when the bright Moon will be gone, you'll see it in all its glory.

Playlist as aired on Saturday, October 7st, 2023, archive show originally aired on October 1st, 2022:

(Airs 10/06/23 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Five years later, we remember the tragic limo crash that killed 20 people in Schoharie, recent storms and flooding put pressure on lawmakers to move New York more quickly to clean energy sources, and we’ll talk about legal representation for the poor with the Executive Director of the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York.

Those who were in the path of the last U.S. total solar eclipse, on August 21, 2017, know the marvels that arrive with a solar totality. The experience tops the list of nature’s most awesome spectacles. But a partial solar eclipse, which is taking place on October 14, is a different ball of wax.

On this week's The Best of Our Knowledge: With a massive, multi-year expansion project finally completed, staff and educators at the Strong Museum of Play are eager to welcome new and returning crowds. And after two college-in-prison programs in New York hosted by private universities collapsed earlier this year, Bard College will pick up the slack.