nextbook – Blake Eskin

I hosted the two most recent episodes of the Nextbook podcast. The visit with composer Leonard Lehrman dwells on how he’s completed Marc Blitzstein’s unfinished works, but before Lehrman gets there his description of his own first opera is my favorite bit of tape of the year. Then there’s a tour of the S&S Cheesecake…

For Nextbook’s Passover podcast, producer Julie Subrin and I stopped by Economy Candy on the Lower East Side and spoke with owner Jerry Cohen. His fruit slices taste better than most. Listen.

I interviewed Ian Buruma about his uncle, the film director John Schlesinger, for the Nextbook podcast. Read an excerpt from Conversations With John Schlesinger, or get the mp3.