Toby Cecchini is part owner and bartender at Passerby, a bar in New York’s far West Chelsea neighborhood. He’s also the author of “Cosmopolitan: A Bartender’s Life.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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A fantasy novel written by a Somali-American Mennonite raised in the US who wrote it while teaching English during a civil war in what is now South Sudan and then revised it in Egypt.
Saul Williams has been hailed as hip hop's poet laureate. He talks with Anne Strainchamps, and we hear some of his work.
In this segment, we hear several love stories from the lives of TTBOOK listeners.
Restaurants serve food and feelings in this story by Nathan Witkin.
In this EXTENDED interview, Steve Paulson talks about his stacks of books, hunger for knowledge. He also explores the difference between data, information, knowledge and... wisdom!
Wendy Doniger says sexual positions are just a small part of the Kamasutra, and that the British taught the Indians to be ashamed of this book, and their bodies.
Music historian Will Friedwald talks with Steve Paulson about “As Time Goes By” and why we love it.
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