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- Jun 9, 2022
- 1 min
Video: Gregory Maguire, author of "Wicked," interviewed by Paul Grondahl


- Jul 31, 2020
- 2 min
114 years after putting an African man on display in its Monkey House, zoo issues apology


- Jun 16, 2020
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Video interview: Dennis Mahoney, author of "Ghostlove"


- Jun 10, 2020
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Times Union Editor Casey Seiler: "A remarkable week"


- Jun 8, 2020
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Soul singer/songwriter Bryan "Professor Buggy Jive" Thomas


- Jun 4, 2020
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"March On!" with Lucy and Grace Lang


- Jun 3, 2020
- 1 min
Alice Green & Leon Van Dyke: Fighting injustice and racism since the 1960s


- May 28, 2020
- 1 min
Catching up with writer and UAlbany alumnus Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah


- May 27, 2020
- 1 min
A conversation with Writers Institute founder and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist William Kennedy


- May 26, 2020
- 5 min
NYS Writers Hall of Fame induction ceremony postponed to 2021


- May 20, 2020
- 2 min
Madeline Miller, international bestselling author of "Circe" and "The Song of Achilles"


- May 18, 2020
- 11 min
Words of advice for the Class of 2020


- May 15, 2020
- 1 min
Poetry in the age of coronavirus, with NYS Poet Alicia Ostriker


- May 6, 2020
- 1 min
How are college students coping in a time of pandemic?


- May 1, 2020
- 2 min
"Living in the Long Emergency" interview with James Howard Kunstler


- Apr 28, 2020
- 2 min
Joining forces to support the Capital Region’s indie bookstores with #IndieBookstoreBoost

- Apr 8, 2020
- 2 min
Talking Teddy with novelist Jerome Charyn

- Apr 6, 2020
- 2 min
Catching up with sportswriter Rick Reilly


- Mar 26, 2020
- 5 min
Dispatches from 'solitary confinement' in a local nursing home