Kirk Douglas, the Guitarist for the Roots, Revamps the Holiday Classics
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As the guitarist for the Roots, who serve as house band for “The Tonight Show,” Kirk Douglas plays anything and everything. So David Remnick put him to the test on some Christmas songs that have become a little overfamiliar. Tracy K. Smith, who served as the United States Poet Laureate from 2017 through 2019, reflects on using poetry to connect with communities across the country. Plus, Roz Chast, the celebrated cartoonist, and the humorist Patricia Marx talk about their secret lives as musical superstars of the ukulele.
Kirk Douglas, the Guitarist for the Roots, Revamps the Holiday Classics
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A bona-fide guitar hero puts a fresh spin on “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “The Little Drummer Boy,” and other somewhat-too-familiar seasonal hits.
As Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith Hit the Road
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Serving as the Poet Laureate, Smith took literature to community centers, senior centers, prisons—to heal our political divides.
Roz Chast and Patricia Marx, Ukulele Superstars
Well known as a cartoonist and a humor writer, respectively, Chast and Marx reveal their double lives as a ukulele duo who were superstars in their time.
The New Yorker Radio Hour is a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
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As the guitarist for the Roots, who serve as house band for “The Tonight Show,” Kirk Douglas plays anything and everything. So David Remnick put him to the test on some Christmas songs that have become a little overfamiliar. Tracy K. Smith, who served as the United States Poet Laureate from 2017 through 2019, reflects on using poetry to connect with communities across the country. Plus, Roz Chast, the celebrated cartoonist, and the humorist Patricia Marx talk about their secret lives as musical superstars of the ukulele.
Kirk Douglas, the Guitarist for the Roots, Revamps the Holiday Classics
Content
This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
A bona-fide guitar hero puts a fresh spin on “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “The Little Drummer Boy,” and other somewhat-too-familiar seasonal hits.
As Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith Hit the Road
Serving as the Poet Laureate, Smith took literature to community centers, senior centers, prisons—to heal our political divides.
Roz Chast and Patricia Marx, Ukulele Superstars
Content
This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
Well known as a cartoonist and a humor writer, respectively, Chast and Marx reveal their double lives as a ukulele duo who were superstars in their time.
The New Yorker Radio Hour is a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
