92NY Talks

T.C. Boyle on his selection:   It was Donald Barthelme, along with Robert Coover, Samuel Beckett, Julio Cortázar and Flannery O'Conner who spurred me to be in writing myself. Barthelme is best known for his abstract stories, like "Indian Uprising," a story I cherish, but I've chosen "The School" for this program because of its tight comedic narrative and its presentation as a dramatic monologue. I...

Geraldine Ferraro, former member of the United States House of Representatives and Vice Presidential candidate, gives a talk on "The Future of Women in Politics." Her remarks about the possibility of a female president resonate powerfully today. She is introduced by Addie Guttag, a 92Y board member. The conversation was recorded on February 20, 1991 in front of a live audience at New York's 92nd S...

In this episode of 92Y Talks, actor/director Alison Brie and filmmakers Andrew Rossi, Sarah Amos, and Jason Sterman with Marvel.com's Angélique Roché discuss the ever-expanding Marvel Universe and their new documentary series  Marvel's 616 . Exploring the uniquely rich and innovative legacy of storytelling that has blossomed out of Marvel Comics,  Marvel's 616  charts new terrain in the Marvel Uni...

In this episode of 92Y Talks, Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés, the directors of  All In: The Fight for Democracy , discuss their documentary film with Annette Insdorf. The film is a powerful exploration of the struggle for voting rights in the United States, featuring Stacey Abrams, the former Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives, and is available to watch on Amazon Prime Video. The...

In this episode of 92Y Talks, New York State Attorney General Letitia James and Rabbi Peter Rubinstein, Director of Jewish Community and Bronfman Center for Jewish Life at the 92nd Street Y, discuss the challenges confronting New York City and State and reasons to be hopeful about the future, with an introduction from the 92nd Street Y's Chief Executive Officer Seth Pinsky. The conversation was st...

In this episode of 92Y Talks, acclaimed playwright, producer, screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin discusses his latest film, The Trial of the Chicago 7, and his extensive body of work with Annette Insdorf. The Trial of the Chicago 7 features an evocative recreation of the late 1960s trial following arrests at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and is currently available to watch on...

In this episode of 92Y Talks, Neil deGrasse Tyson—astrophysicist icon, Hayden Planetarium director, and host of National Geographic's COSMOS ––talks with the great science popularizer Bill Nye about the making of COSMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS and its state-of-the art visual effects, the legacy of the visionary Carl Sagan, and, in Tyson's words, "our eternal search for answers about ourselves in the univ...

In this episode of 92Y Talks, Anya Taylor-Joy, Marielle Heller, Moses Ingram, and Scott Frank discuss their new Netflix limited series  The Queen's Gambit  with Jodie Foster. Based on the Walter Trevis novel about a Cold War-era chess prodigy, it's a coming-of-age story like no other—a complex portrait that follows a young girl from a Kentucky orphanage into the upper echelons of competitive chess...

New York Democratic Congressman Hakeem Jeffries joins us with Eddie S. Glaude Jr, distinguished professor of African American Studies at Princeton and author of  Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own , for a conversation about racism in America and the urgent need to create a more just society. Jeffries is chairman of the House Democratic Caucus and a tireless adv...

In this episode of 92Y Talks, Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin discuss their new Netflix series  Get Organized with The Home Edit  with actress and comedian Retta. Shearer and Teplin share their secrets for conquering your clutter with their unique brand of interior styling, practicality and humor. The conversation was streamed live as part of the 92nd Street Y's online talks series on September 22,...

In this episode of 92Y Talks, Bette Midler, Kaitlyn Dever, Dan Levy, Sarah Paulson, Issa Rae, playwright Paul Rudnick, and director Jay Roach talk with CNN's Alisyn Camerota about their new HBO socially distanced comedy, Coastal Elites. The special presentation spotlights five hilarious and wildly distinct characters across the United States grappling with the pandemic and the politics that surrou...

Disney+'s Howard: Don Hahn, Alan Menken, Paige O'Hara, Jodi Benson, Bill Lauch, and Sarah Gillespie in Conversation with Vanity Fair's Joanna Robinson In this episode of 92Y Talks, director Don Hahn, Alan Menken, Paige O'Hara, Jodi Benson, Bill Lauch, and Sarah Gillespie talk with  Vanity Fair 's Joanna Robinson about the life and creative force of Howard Ashman, the brilliant lyricist who helped...

Most parents would readily agree that they'd do anything to protect their child—but what happens when that child is accused of the unthinkable? Chris Evans and Michelle Dockery star in Apple's limited series  Defending Jacob , about the seemingly idyllic Barber family and the upheaval they experience when their son Jacob (Jaeden Martell) is charged with murder. Based on William Landay's 2012 bests...

Netflix's The Innocence Files with Alex Gibney, Roger Ross Williams, Liz Garbus, Cynthia Littleton, Peter Neufeld, Vincent Southerland and Derrick Hamilton How do innocent people end up in prison? The Innocence Project has been exploring this problem—and combating it—for decades. And now a new Netflix documentary series,  The Innocence Files , is pulling back the veil on their work. Join us for an...

Entertainment Weekly's Gerrad Hall discusses the Netflix series Queer Eye with Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Tan France, Antoni Porowski, and Jonathan Van Ness, and look back on some of the show's most poignant –– and hilarious! –– moments. After five seasons, countless French tucks, seven Emmys, and lots of tears, their message of acceptance and equality is as relevant as ever. The conversation was s...

When Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an "illegal knife" in April 2015, he was, by eyewitness accounts that video evidence later confirmed, treated "roughly" as police loaded him into a vehicle. By the end of his trip in the police van, Gray was in a coma from which he would never recover. In the wake of a long history of economic inequality and racial injustice in Baltimore, this tragedy...

Join celebrated director Gina Prince-Bythewood ( Love & Basketball ,  Beyond the Lights ) and rising star KiKi Layne ( If Beale Street Could Talk ) for a conversation with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins about Prince-Bythewood's brilliant new Netflix movie  The Old Guard . A tough and thoughtful action thriller starring Charlize Theron and KiKi Layne,  The Old Guard  is already being...

We all know that Martin Luther King made his "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington but the march was much more than that speech. All three TV networks covered it live (using the exotic new Telstar satellite) and the March helped lead to passage of the Civil Rights Act and later the Voting Rights Act. Join Harry Belafonte - one of the organizers of the March and financial supporters fo...

The second season of  Shrill , Hulu's powerful, acclaimed comedy, drops January 24—and who better to sneak a peek at an episode and mull over the backstory than with its star, exec producer, and co-writer Aidy Bryant? Join the  SNL  cast member for an in-depth conversation about her return to the show as Annie, the millennial on a body-positivity journey of self-acceptance. We'll dig in to the iss...

Join Emmy Award-winning comedian John Mulaney, along with co-writers Marika Sawyer and Eli Bolin, Director Rhys Thomas, and actress Shereen Pimentel as they discuss Mulaney's new Netflix special,  John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch —a variety show packed to the gills with song, dance, existential hilarity, special celebrity guests, and a bunch of kids ages 8–13 who John thinks are more talented t...

Apple TV+  Little America  Executive Producers Lee Eisenberg, Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani, Joshuah Bearman, and Alan Yang with Lola Ogunnaike With a 100% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes,  Little America  is shaping up to be a major hit for Apple TV+. Inspired by true stories of immigrants in America, first published in  Epic Magazine , the anthology series is written and produced by Emmy-nomi...

Julia Louis-Dreyfus returns to 92Y with Zach Woods and director Jim Rash for clips and conversation about her film, Downhill , in which she stars opposite Will Ferrell. Join the multiple award-winning actress and the Oscar-winning director to hear behind-the-scenes stories and about the movie—a biting comedy of a married couple thrown into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate their lives afte...

Issa Rae, Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated creator and star of  Insecure , and writer and director Stella Meghie, join author Roxane Gay for a discussion of their new film,  The Photograph —a powerful multigenerational story of love, family history, and art. Already generating buzz for the project from critics and audiences alike, Rae and Meghie discuss the making of the film and Rae's effortless c...

Join Kevin Kline, Tony award winner for  On the Twentieth Century ,  The Pirates of Penzance  and  Present Laughter , and Oscar winner for  A Fish Called Wanda , along with legendary Oscar-winning producer-director Irwin Winkler ( Rocky ,  Raging Bull ,  The Right Stuff ,  Goodfellas ,  The Irishman ), and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Jay Cocks ( The Age of Innocence ,  Gangs of New York ) as they...

High Maintenance , the critically acclaimed series that made the leap from web series to TV in 2012 and now in its fourth season, was recently hailed as one of 2019's "Best Shows of 2019" by  The New Yorker . Created by Katja Blichfeld (Emmy®-winning casting director of  30 Rock ) and Ben Sinclair ( Maniac ,  Home Again ), the series centers around The Guy, a marijuana dealer who traverses the cit...