What Everyone's Talking About

Ellie Kemper with Abigail Pogrebin

In this blockbuster series, Abigail Pogrebin unpacks the controversies, careers, and events in the news with fascinating guests.

A Yale graduate, Pogrebin is the author of Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewishand One and the Same: My Life as an Identical Twin and What I’ve Learned About Everyone's Struggle to Be Singular. Abigail began her career in broadcast journalism, producing for Fred W. Friendly, Charlie Rose, and Bill Moyers at PBS, and then for six years at CBS News’ 60 Minutes, first as a producer for Ed Bradley, then for Mike Wallace. Her new book, My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew, chronicles her immersion into the Jewish calendar. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children.

Abigail's past guests have included (*indicates available as a 76West podcast):

2021
Nicholas Kristof + Sheryl WuDunn
Isabel Wilkerson
Don Lemon

2020
Lisa Brennan-Jobs

2019
Jodi Kantor + Megan Twohey
Robin Pogrebin + Kate Kelly*
Nathan Englander
Ellie Kemper*

2018
Roxane Gay*

2017
Charles M. Blow
Alan Alda*
Ariel Levy, Daphne Merkin, and Dani Shapiro*

2016
Tom Brokaw and Dr. Jennifer Brokaw
Ruth Reichl*
Lesley Stahl

2015
Alan Cumming*
Dan Barber*
Candice Bergen*

2014
Daniel Jones
Mark Bittman
Rosanne Cash

2013
Andrew Solomon
Daniel Goldhagen
Dara-Lynn Weiss
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Malcolm Gladwell

2012
Chris Matthews
Danny Meyer
Judy Collins*

2011
Amanda Hesser + Mario Batali
Nora Ephron z"l*
Alexandra Styron

2010
Nicholas Kristof
David Remnick + Jonathan Alter

2009
Julie Powell + Gretchen Rubin
Frank Bruni + Jonathan Safran Foer
Ed Koch z"l + Joyce Purnick


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