Welcome to the Criminal Conversation where we have weekly conversations about all things truly criminal. We will be covering solved and unsolved true crimes such as murder, kidnapping, war crimes, assault, etc.
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"Before The Cheering Started with Budd Mishkin" explores the journey to success and professional fulfillment. These are the stories of obstacles overcome, periods of doubt, plan B's and the passion to push through to follow one’s passion and realize a dream. Guests on the first 80 episodes of the podcast have included musicians Shawn Colvin, Sarah Jarosz, Nick Lowe, Steven Van Zandt and John Pizzarelli, writers Nick Hornby, Jacqueline Woodson, Patrick Radden Keefe, Scott Turow and Colum McCa ...
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The Lives of Women in History is a podcast about the fascinating and inspiring stories of women from colonial days to the early 1900s. These women settled new lands, traveled the ocean, drove covered wagons, built cities and communities, were cattle rustlers and bank robbers, educators and politicians, stood up against racism and fought for the right to vote, got married and raised families, and so much more. Hosted, researched, and written by April Rogers. I believe that every woman's story ...
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Just because it’s fiction doesn’t mean it’s not true. Host & novelist, Amy Impellizzeri, interviews the biggest authors of this year’s best sellers and gets down and deep to reveal the true inspiration behind the stories. From Bangles Co-Founder & Debut Novelist, Susanna Hoffs, to New York Times Best-Selling Authors, Marie Benedict, E. Lockhart, and Kristy Woodson Harvey, just to name a few. Tune in to hear this week’s guest admit: “No one’s ever asked me that before!”
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BARRY SONNENFELD: A Series Of Fortunate Events
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Send us a text Barry Sonnenfeld is a storyteller. In film. And in conversation. His journey has taken him from the streets of Washington Heights to the heights of Hollywood. He tells hundreds of these stories in a new memoir, Best Possible Place, Worst Possible Time.” He shared more than a few of them in our conversation.…
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HARRY TEINOWITZ: Getting Another Shot
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Send us a text Talk to Harry Teinowitz for ten seconds and it’s easy to understand why he’s had a successful career in Chicago sports talk radio. There’s a fun gift of gab, a solid sense of humor and a passionate love of sports. He brought a lot of joy to Chicago sports fans. But then came a DUI, rehab and a coming to terms with his alcohol problem…
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BEN MANKIEWICZ: For The Love Of Family And Film
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Send us a text Many of us grow up in homes with high expectations, but perhaps not the burden of expectation that Ben Mankiewicz experienced. His grandfather and great uncle were prominent in Hollywood, his father in the world of politics. Ben long ago dreamed of being a baseball broadcaster. Along the way, he worked in sports media, hosted an ecle…
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FRANK RICH: From Ticket Taker To Critic To Producer
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Send us a text You never know what job you have that will teach you lessons that you’ll use decades later. Growing up as a theater loving kid, Frank Rich got a dream job as a ticket taker in a theater in his hometown of Washington, D.C. And he watched as shows were changed, rewritten, shortened and lengthened from night to night in preparation for …
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LEN ELMORE: Balancing The Books And Ball
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Send us a text For much of his adult life as an athlete and attorney, Len Elmore has balanced academics and athletics. That work continues to this day as a Senior Lecturer at Columbia University in the Sports Management program. The balancing act began long ago growing up in New York City, then attending Power Memorial Academy, the University of Ma…
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LUCY KAPLANSKY: Art + Science = Sweet Music
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Send us a text LUCY KAPLANSKY Art + Science = Sweet Music We’ve all come to crossroads in our lives and our careers. Lucy Kaplansky initially chose music. Then she chose school and a doctorate in clinical psychology. She tried pursuing both passions, psychologist by day with a little music on the side. But then came those crossroads. Her many admir…
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SEBASTIAN JUNGER: In His Time Of Writing
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Send us a text I first met Sebastian Junger in 2011, only months after the death of his friend and war reporting colleague Tim Hetherington in Libya. Junger was at a crossroads, searching for an experience as intense as war but an experience that doesn’t get you killed. The passion he felt for war reporting has been replaced by the passion for his …
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Alan Zweibel: A Life In Laughs, Part 2
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Send us a text By 1975, Alan Zweibel had decided on a career in comedy writing. He’d written jokes for older borscht belt comics and become friendly with young comics like Billy Crystal. But then he faced a difficult career decision between a relatively sure thing and a leap into the unknown. The decision changed the rest of his life.Learn more abo…
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Alan Zweibel: A Life In Laughs, Part 1
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Send us a text “Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.” Shakespeare forgot about this one: “some are nudged by the rejection of numerous law schools.” Alan Zweibel has written so many words that have made us laugh, through the voices of Gilda Radner, Billy Crystal, Garry Shandling and his own. He was o…
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Ruth Reichl: Eating Is A Political Issue
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Send us a text Ruth Reichl never thought she’d make a career out of writing about food. But she has, defying expectations and obliterating boundaries at august publications along the way. She’s found joy and memory and escape in her writing about food: witness her latest book The Paris Novel. But there is also the theme that has stayed true to Reic…
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Will Lee and Paul Shaffer: 50 Years Of Friendship
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Send us a text I don’t think it violates some journalistic Edward R. Murrow code to say that some interviews are a labor of love. And if it does, so be it. This is one of them. Paul Shaffer and Will Lee have put a lot of joyful music into the world. They are best known for their work in the Letterman bands, first on NBC and then on CBS, 33 years in…
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Ten Kids, Two Lovebirds, and A Singing Mermaid: Celebrating Cathy Lamb's Long Awaited Return to Fiction
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After a 5 year hiatus, novelist Cathy Lamb is back with a new, self-published novel, inspired by her own childhood, with a cast of characters that are both inspired and imagined. Find out what she is learning about a return to art on her own terms in this no holds barred episode!Bởi Guest User
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Bill Persky: Still Funny After All These Years, Part 2
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Send us a text By 1963, Bill Persky had already worked as a lifeguard at Grossinger’s in the Catskill Mountains and watched the hotel’s standup comics make people laugh. He’d written a show at Syracuse University that won a national collegiate award. He’d worked at an advertising agency and radio station in New York before moving to California to w…
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Bill Persky: Still Funny After All These Years, Part 1
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Send us a text What is it like to create something early in your life and then watch as that creation has a tangible effect on people decades later? Musicians know the feeling. Actors and writers too. It’s a feeling Bill Persky knows well. He and his writing partner Sam Denoff wrote many of the classic episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show, a 1960’s s…
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Let's Pretend This Will Work! In Conversation with Maddie Dawson
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Maddie Dawson is the pen name of Sandi Shelton (just wait until you hear WHY she picked this name!) who is the author of the newest Amazon First Reads Pick, LET'S PRETEND THIS WILL WORK. With its true life inspiration, quirky characters, and thought-provoking premise, this new novel will take you on a ride you won't expect. Don't miss this conversa…
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Stephane Matteau: Lessons Beyond The Goal
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Send us a text It seems easy for former professional athletes to live in the past. They practiced their whole lives to play the game and now it’s gone. Fans are constantly reminding them of games long ago, occasionally waiting on long lines for a picture and an autograph at a card show. New York Rangers fans often remind Stephane Matteau of his Gam…
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TM Blanchet on Witches, Dogs, Trilogies and More!
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Last time we talked to Tricia Blanchet, writing as TM Blanchet, she had just released her debut novel in 2022. Now, TM Blanchet has just finished the HEATH TRILOGY with the newly released Herrick's Key and what an ending! We talk about how the original ending of The Trilogy changed and Tricia makes a confession about which was the hardest book to w…
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Send us a text Jay Z once memorably rapped “if skills sold, truth be told, I’d probably be lyrically, Talib Kweli.”Many are the influences that have shaped Talib Kweli’s words and music for decades: the Brooklyn of his youth, the ubiquitous books and records in that Brooklyn home, the academic careers of his parents as professors and administrators…
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EVERY TIME I GO ON VACATION SOME DIES - A First Look at the Newest Novel by Catherine McKenzie That Surprised Everyone!
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When IKHTBE Host/Creator Amy Impellizzeri received an advance copy of a book from an unknown author, Catherine Mack, she dove right in and was anxious to meet the author. Turns out she already did! Catherine McKenzie, Canadian lawyer turned bestselling author of 20 novels (largely psychological suspense) surprised everyone by revealing that she was…
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Adriana Trigiani: Lessons Inside The Four Walls And Beyond
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Send us a text Adriana Trigiani has had a long love affair with the written word. And she’s pretty comfortable with the spoken word too. She has quite a story to tell as a novelist/TV writer/film director/podcast host whose journey brought her from a small mining town in Virginia to New York. And she tells that story with insight and humor. Her tho…
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THE VINEYARD REMAINS - A Candid Discussion With The Authors Behind the Pen Name "Addison McKnight"
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Nicole Moleti and Krista Wells, who together write as Addison McKnight sit down with I KNOW HOW THIS BOOK ENDS to talk about what it's REALLY like when 2 friends write a book a together (hint: it's not easy!) and why they went from writing about women's issues in the non-fiction world separately to writing novels together. There's a sneak peek abou…
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Send us a text Shawn Colvin has been making music, beautiful music, for a long time. She’s known the heights of winning Grammy Awards, including song of the year and record of the year for Sunny Came Home in 1998. She’s known the hills and valleys of the business, especially early on, playing in cover bands, dive bars, taking day jobs before her ca…
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Send us a text Stan Fischler has been in the hockey world for 70 years, primarily as a writer and broadcaster. His passion for the sport has never waned, even as a 92 year old who now covers and writes about hockey from a small village in northern Israel, where he lives with his son and family. He is the sport’s connection, from Richard to Howe to …
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THE WAVES TAKE YOU HOME -In Conversation with Debut Novelist, Maria Alejandra Barrios Velez
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Maurice Ashley: Lessons Beyond The Board
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Send us a text I first met Maurice Ashley in New York in 1994. He was announcing a chess tournament with all of the fervor and excitement of Marv Albert and John Madden. 30 years later, his passion for the sport is the same, perhaps greater. He’s an historic figure in chess as the first African American grandmaster. But that’s only a small part of …
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THE LIES AMONG US - After 25 Novels, Sarah Beth Durst Tells the Truth About Her Most Ambitious Novel Yet
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Award-winning Author, Sarah Beth Durst, has just released a novel that reviewers say “Go into this one blind!”Written from the perspective of a character who simply doesn’t exist, THE LIES AMONG US is a clever, unusual, atmospheric and gripping novel about lies, grief, and family. Don’t miss this episode as we talk about how this novel came to be a…
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Steve Hindy: From Foreign Correspondent To Brooklyn Brewer
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Send us a text It was the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald who famously wrote “there are no second acts in America.” Scott, meet Steve Hindy. He’s had an amazing second act, made that much more compelling by his first act, covering wars and revolutions in the Middle East, the taking of the American hostages in Iran in 1979 and surviving the assassination…
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Send us a text If we’re lucky, we find work that is our passion. In a sense, it doesn’t even feel like work. Long ago, Bill Raftery found that passion analyzing basketball games on TV. And we are the lucky ones.What we don’t see is the immense amount of preparation he puts into every game. What millions of us do see and hear and experience is the j…
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Send us a text Growing up on Long Island, Bob Gruen’s parents wanted him to work 9-5. And for much of his life, he did. 9PM-5AM. He’s spent 60 years documenting rock ‘n roll through photographs. Bob wasn’t photographing the scene. He was part of the scene, earning the trust of musicians, hanging out with them, touring with them, befriending them an…
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Mike Richter: From Goaltending to Green Technology
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Send us a text Former athletes have all kinds of second careers once their playing days are over. There are lawyers and doctors, business people and broadcasters, lots and lots of broadcasters. But I know of no other former great athlete who has pursued the world of green technology. Mike Richter was always one of my favorite interviews during my s…
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Justin Vivian Bond: Entertaining And Educating With A Microphone
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Send us a text In the world of downtown cabaret and theater, Justin Vivian Bond is nothing less than an icon. For more than 30 years, their performances have compelled audiences, initially in small performance spaces and eventually at Carnegie Hall and beyond. They created their most memorable character while still in their 20’s: a boozy, opinionat…
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Inside Hollywood Hustle with Hollywood Insider, Jon Lindstrom
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In this Season 4 Premiere, 4-Time Emmy-Nominated Jon Lindstrom (of General Hospital and True Detective fame) takes us behind the curtain of Hollywood - for the good, bad, and ugly, as we deep dive into the story behind the story of his debut novel (and new USA Today Bestseller) HOLLYWOOD HUSTLE. Tune in to hear secrets spilled, character inspiratio…
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Lea Carpenter: Writing In The Present…And The Past
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Send us a text Lea Carpenter has had an unlikely and compelling path to becoming a writer of novels about espionage: Princeton and Harvard, working for both Senator Biden and Beau Biden and a 10 year magazine publishing career working for the likes of Francis Ford Coppola and John F. Kennedy Jr. There is a powerful connection in her writing to a su…
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Send us a text I first met Kenny Vance at one of the hardest times in his life. It was a few months after Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and his house on the beach in the Rockaways of New York had been completely destroyed. And yet even that couldn’t dampen his sweet spirit, his good humor and the joy he has gotten out of a life in music. Kenny grew up in…
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Sarah Jarosz: The Tradition Continues
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Send us a text There’s no need to categorize the music of Sarah Jarosz. OK, you can put it in one category: good. She has a contemporary sound and a sensibility that pays homage to the musical shoulders on which she stands. She is thoughtful in music and conversation, about the musically vibrant Texas small town of her youth, her time at the New En…
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Nick Hornby: About A Writer/Music Buff/Arsenal FC Fan, Part 2
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Send us a text Talent will always win out. At least, I hope so. Talent and creativity and humor and perseverance. But all of us need a moment that opens the window to the rest of our lives. That window opened for Nick Hornby during a conversation with an agent that was not going particularly well. Nick decided “what the hell” at the end of the conv…
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Nick Hornby: About A Writer/Music Buff/Arsenal FC Fan, Part 1
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Send us a text Nick Hornby has never written the phone book, to use an old expression. But if he did, I’d read it. Hornby is one of those writers who elicits unbridled enthusiasm from his unabashed admirers. Count me in, thanks to books like High Fidelity, Fever Pitch and About A Boy. He always had a love of reading and writing and music and sports…
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Send us a text You don’t need to be a great musician like Steven Van Zandt, Bruce Springsteen or Paul Shaffer to understand the greatness of Darlene Love. Perhaps they understand it on a more musical level, but anyone who has ever heard that amazing voice gets it. Her songs radiate joy, none more so than the classic of this season, “Christmas (Baby…
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Send us a text Mike Massimino is smart. No surprise there. He’s a graduate of Columbia, MIT and the NASA space program. But he’s also incredibly thoughtful about the lessons while preparing for his two space shuttle flights, the time he spent in space and the clarity it gave him about life back on earth. And he’s downright funny when talking about …
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Send us a text Lisa Lucas has many of the wonderful qualities that a compelling character in one of the books she publishes might have. She’s smart. She’s thoughtful. And she’s really funny. Have you ever known anyone who breezily refers to the classic The Brothers Karamazov as “ The Brothers K?” She’s the Senior Vice President and Publisher of Pan…
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Chandrika Tandon: Business + Music = Joy
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Send us a text Chandrika Tandon has a head for business and a soul for music. She’s reached incredible heights in both fields. It’s a remarkable story. Where others see obstacles she sees opportunities, from growing up in India to coming to the United States and then realizing her dream of making music while raising a family and wielding influence …
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Send us a text At this profoundly dark time, a show of hope and wonder is taking place at a small and intimate theater in Greenwich Village. The show is called “Asi Wind’s Inner Circle.” If you love magic, you’ll love it. If you hate magic, you’ll love it. It is unlike any show I’ve ever seen, where the audience plays an integral role in the entire…
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Nick Lowe: Writing And Singing The Book, Part 2
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Send us a text Nick Lowe has been writing and singing his songs for some 50 years. Some songs, like the exquisite “Stoplight Roses” are known by his ardent fans. Others, like “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding” are known around the world. More than a few iconic musicians have covered his songs, including Elvis Costello and Johnn…
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Nick Lowe: Writing And Singing The Book, Part 1
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Send us a text There’s something beautiful about a musician who has been writing and performing for decades and is still out there, finding inspiration to write and create special moments for the audience. And yes, there is something beautiful about Nick Lowe. There are the catchy songs that we first loved when we were younger and the poignant song…
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Rob Simmelkjaer: The Long Run To A Dream Job
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Send us a text From the outside, it seems that it’s been a brilliant trajectory for Rob Simmelkjaer, from Ivy League college and law school to prestigious legal and media positions. But to steal a piece of wisdom from Rob himself, no one’s trajectory is a straight line. The path has now led him to his “dream job” as the CEO of New York Road Runners…
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Gabi Conti: Writing For The Soul And The Smiles
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Send us a text Spend 12 seconds talking to Gabi Conti and you get it, that California blast of energy born out of growing up in the Northeast. She’s written, directed and hosted new media and old. She jokes that she peaked at Emerson College, where the window to the rest of her life opened. In those early years in the business, when obstacles had t…
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Behind the Scenes of LIGHTS OUT - a Debut Novel by Former Sports Journalist, Elise Hart Kipness
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In this revealing episode, former live sports reporter, Elise Hart Kipness, reveals how the heroes (and villains!) from her days as a female sports journalist helped fuel the story for her debut novel, LIGHTS OUT. Elise takes us inside the locker rooms of some of the biggest NBA, Tennis and Golf icons (looking at you, Venus Williams!) and gives the…
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Garry Trudeau: The Doonesbury Chronicler
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Send us a text We all have books, music, movies, pieces of art that elate us in good times and sustain us in hard times. The 1975 book "The Doonesbury Chronicles" is at the top of the list for me. I frequently go back to it, rereading strips that I've read a hundred times. Garry Trudeau created Doonesbury, initially called Bull Tales, at Yale in th…
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Stephen Dubner: A Man Of Endless Curiosity
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Send us a text It’s one thing to have a successful book, and Freaknomics, the 2005 book Stephen Dubner co-authored with economist Steven Levitt, is very successful, with million of copies sold and translated all over the world. But it’s rare that a successful book becomes a radio show, a podcast and a small cottage industry. And it’s even rarer tha…
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Exploring DWELL TIME With Cuban-born American Writer and Art Conservator, Rosa Lowinger
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In this episode, Cuban-born writer, Rosa Lowinger, shares the poignant story behind her deeply personal memoir - DWELL TIME - a story of intergenerational trauma and displacement, and ultimately of healing and hope. It’s a unique perspective from a woman who has broken through barriers in the world of art conservation and more! https://rosalowinger…
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