The Roundtable

"Leaving Eden" - Carolina Chocolate Drops

Carolina Chocolate Drops are playing at Mountain Jam this weekend.

Rich Honen of Phillips Lytle LLP joins us to talk about JP Morgan Chase and Facebooks recent trading blunders.

The G-8 summit was largely about the roadmap in Afghanistan. In today’s Congressional Corner, New York Representative Chris Gibson tells WAMC’s Alan Chartock that it’s crucial to avoid new foreign entanglements when at all possible.

Matt Tennenbaum and Michael Schiavo of The Book Store in Lenox, MA share this week's Book Picks titles.

The List:
Magic Hours: On Creators and Creation by Tom Bissell
Alien Vs. Predator by Michael Robbins
All Access by Ken Regan
Thinking the 20th Century by Tony Judt
The Tender Hour of Twilight by Richard Seaver
Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed (The Fifty Shades Trilogy) by E.L. James

We speak with United States Congressman, John Lewis, about his new book, Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change.

What makes a hero?

Veronica Roth’s debut novel Divergent created a lot of buzz, as she brought the reader into a dystopian world that was divided into five factions. The book left readers breathless as the battle for control began, and in her highly anticipated second part of the trilogy, Insurgent, we pick up from where the first left off.  Katie Britton spoke with Roth about the series and the process of plotting out all three novels.

In this week’s Classical Music According to Yehuda, Dr. Alan Chartock and Yehuda Hanani discuss what makes a great performance, hearing Chaliapin’s version of an aria from Don Giovanni alongside a contemporary version.

The upcoming anniversary of D-Day is a somber affair. In today’s Congressional Corner, New York Representative and Army Colonel Chris Gibson speaks with WAMC’s Alan Chartock about the crucial American victory.