92NY Talks

In this episode of 92NY Talks, join co-creators and executive producers Brian Koppelman and David Levien along with executive producer Beth Schacter of the Showtime hit drama Billions for a conversation with co-Editor-in-Chief of Variety, Cynthia Littleton. Season after season, Billions has explored greed, money, and power like few shows on television before it — and in its final act, the stakes of this tightly-wound world of competing loyalties, betrayal, and wealth have never been higher. The conversation was recorded on October 23, 2023 in front of a live audience at The 92nd Street Y, New York.

In this episode of 92NY Talks, join Elisha Wiesel for a reading and conversation about his father Elie Wiesel's writings, commemorating the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. Drawing from Elie Wiesel's published work and the extraordinary archive of 180 lectures he gave at 92NY between 1967 and 2014, Elisha Wiesel offers candid and timely reflections on his father's writings about the long shadow of Kristallnacht, the creation of the state of Israel, his unwavering belief in the resilience of the Jewish spirit. He is introduced by Rabbi David Ingber, Senior Director for Jewish Life and the Bronfman Center at 92NY. The program was recorded on November 8, 2023 in front of a live audience at The 92nd Street Y, New York.

In this episode of 92NY Talks, join Gen Z trailblazer and social media star Bretman Rock on the glory of finding your authentic self, no matter what it takes — and his new memoir, You're That Bitch: & Other Cute Lessons About Being Unapologetically Yourself. Rock sits down with Anaa Saber to discuss how he's helping to expand our notions of queer identity, stories that didn't make it into the memoir, and much more. The conversation was recorded on June 21, 2023 in front of a live audience at The 92nd Street Y, New York.

In this episode of 92NY Talks, join Rajiv Shah, President of the Rockefeller Foundation and former administrator of President Barack Obama's United States Agency for International Development, as he discusses his new book, Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens, with Fareed Zakaria. Shah shares why he believes it's realistic to be optimistic that today's biggest challenges - from climate change to food insecurity to racial injustice to the rise of AI - are solvable. The conversation was recorded on October 12, 2023 in front of a live audience at The 92nd Street Y, New York.

In this episode of 92NY Talks, join Amy Schneider, the most successful woman to ever compete on Jeopardy!, as she sits down with Harvey Fierstein to share her singular journey that led to becoming an unlikely icon and hero to millions. Her impressive forty-game winning streak was accompanied by an even greater prize — the joy of being herself on national television and blazing a trail for openly queer and transgender people around the world. The conversation was recorded on October 4, 2023 in front of a live audience at The 92nd Street Y, New York.

In this episode of 92NY Talks, acclaimed singer-songwriter and actress Reneé Rapp sits down with Drew Barrymore to discuss her debut LP, Snow Angel. Hear Rapp on the making of the record, the personal experiences behind new songs like "Snow Angel" and fan-favorites like "In the Kitchen," stories from the studio, and much more. The conversation was recorded on August 21, 2023 in front of a live audience at The 92nd Street Y, New York.

In this episode of 92NY Talks, join Walter Isaacson - the bestselling author of biographies of Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, and Albert Einstein - as he sits down with bestselling author Michael Lewis to discuss Issacson's latest, Elon Musk. It's an astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era, a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and he took over Twitter. The conversation was recorded on September 13, 2023 in front of a live audience at The 92nd Street Y, New York.

In this episode of 92NY Talks, Anderson Cooper sits down with with his good friend Andy Cohen to discuss his new book, Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune - the story of an American dynasty whose trajectory follows a uniquely American arc of acquisition and loss, of glory and shame. After the success of Cooper's bestseller about his mother's family, Vanderbilt, he contemplated how nearly all the Astor real estate, money, and power were gone, along with the New York society they dominated. The conversation was recorded on September 20, 2023 in front of a live audience at The 92nd Street Y, New York.

In this episode of 92NY Talks, join New York Times #1 bestselling author Adam Mansbach, known for Go the F*** to Sleep and A Field Guide to the Jewish People, for a discussion on his new book, The Golem of Brooklyn, a ferociously funny reimagining of the golem of Jewish folklore. He sits down with with comedian/actor Aasif Mandvi to explain how the book came about and how the merging of humor with wisdom, political insight and history can lead to the most powerful storytelling. The conversation was streamed live as part of The 92nd Street Y, New York online talks series on September 28, 2023.

In this episode of 92NY Talks, Jake Tapper, Chief Washington correspondent for CNN and bestselling novelist, sits down with Maggie Haberman of the New York Times to discuss his new thriller, All The Demons Are Here, which takes us back to the 1970s with two unforgettable characters encountering many of the real-life figures and events that define what he calls one of the wildest and most dangerous decades in American history. The conversation was recorded on July 10, 2023 in front of a live audience at The 92nd Street Y, New York.