Newsmakers meet New Yorkers as host Brian Lehrer and his guests take on the issues dominating conversation in New York and around the world. This daily program from WNYC Studios cuts through the usual talk radio punditry and brings a smart, humane approach to the day's events and what matters most in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, Death, Sex & Money, Nancy, and many others.
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What a Refugee Knows
Dina Nayeri, award-winning novelist who emigrated to the U.S. from Iran as a child, now based in London, and the author of The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You (Catapult, 2019), talks about her first non-fiction book about her own history, and that of other asylum-seekers.