CUNY Podcasts

Hip-hop is part of the cultural mainstream now, but when it came on the scene 40 years ago, it was anything but. “There are a lot of myths about hip-hop and one of the most prevalent ones is that it was hijacked by corporate interests … but it didn’t go down that way,” says Dan Charnas, auth...

“Memoir is the most radical act anyone can undertake because you are refusing to be silent,” says Louise DeSalvo, author of the critically acclaimed 2002 work, “Vertigo,” a candid account of growing up in a dysfunctional, Italian-American immigrant family in Hoboken after World War II. In a...

Many artists have a source of inspiration that forever holds a place in their heart, and for Guatemalan-born David Unger it is Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his book, “No One Writes to the Colonel.” “That book forged my identity as a Latin American native and writer,” says Unger, who, through a...