Who’s Here in the Hamptons

Episode 52: This week on “Dan’s Talks,” Dan speaks with Marya Martin, founder of the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival. A New Zealand native, Martin enjoys a musical career of remarkable breadth and achievement — balancing the roles of chamber musician, festival director, soloist, teacher and supporter of musical institutions. She founded the BCMF in 1984, which has been bringing world-class chamber music to the East End ever since.

Episode 51: This week on “Dan’s Talks,” Dan speaks with Karl Grossman, co-author of Cold War Long Island. The book, co-written by Christopher Verga, delves into the often overlooked history of the Cold War era in Nassau and Suffolk counties. Grossman has specialized in investigative reporting in a variety of media for more than 50 years and has hosted the nationally-aired TV program Enviro Close-Up for over 30 years.  

Episode 50: This week on “Dan’s Talks,” Dan speaks with PR and communications expert Robert Zimmerman. The ZE Creative Communications founder/partner has extensive experience in media relations, branding communications and crisis management. He has compiled an extensive background in government and community service The Hamptons resident has also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Public Relations Professionals of Long Island.

Episode 49: This week on “Dan’s Talks,” Dan speaks with award winning author Roger Rosenblatt. Throughout his career, he’s been an essayist for Time magazine and PBS NewsHour, author of several New  York Times bestsellers and Distinguished Professor of English and Writing at Stony Brook University. He’s also the first person to ever interview Dan for an issue of Dan’s Papers.

Episode 48: This week on “Dan’s Talks,” Dan speaks with David Nugent, artistic director of the Hamptons International Film Festival, which runs October 7–13 this year. They discussed the procedure for submitting a film, how it gets selected, safety precautions at this year’s festival and HIFF’s track record for selecting films that will win Best Picture at the Oscars (11 times so far).

Episode 47: This week on “Dan’s Talks,” Dan speaks bestselling author Erik Larson. The Southampton writer is know for his popular books Dead Wake, The Devil in the White City, In the Garden of Beasts and The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill. Released on Tuesday, his first foray into fiction, No One Goes Alone, is a horrifying experience that can only be experienced through  he chilling audiobook narrated by Julian Rhind-Tutt.  

Episode 46: This week on “Dan’s Talks,” Dan speaks with Monte Farber, celestial mechanic. Farber was the resident psychic for Jim Cramer’s popular financial website TheStreet.com and has nearly three million copies of his 45 books, divination systems and meditation kits published around the world in fourteen languages. He and Dan discuss how he got interested in the planets and how the result of a rare confluence several years ago foretold hard times.

Episode 45: This week on “Dan’s Talks,” Dan speaks with Caroline Hirsch, owner and founder of the legendary Carolines on Broadway comedy club and the New York Comedy Festival. She is well-known for her sixth sense of detecting rising comedic talent, including the likes of Paul Reubens and Jerry Seinfeld. She and Dan discuss how she got into the standup comedy club business, and why she bought a home in the Hamptons.

Dan Rattiner Talks with Tom Clavin, American Author

EPISODE 43. This week on ‘Dan’s Talks’: Dan speaks with Amy Zerner, a fashion designer for Bergdorf Goodman. Zerner, who lives full-time in East Hampton, has been designing luxury clothing for years. She describes her style as “mystical,” and talks about how she tries to make “art that you wear”. She and Dan talk about the magic of thrift shops and how Zerner “chose” the Hamptons as a place to live when she was just a teenager, among other things.