Get Lit: Laila Lalami's 'The Dream Hotel,' and Imal Gnawa Performs
2026/07/10 | 46 mins.
[REBROADCAST FROM May 6, 2025] Author Laila Lalami discusses her new book, The Dream Hotel, which follows a woman detained after an AI algorithm analyzes her dreams and determines she's at risk of harming her husband. The novel was the April 2025 selection for our Get Lit with All Of It book club. Plus, at Lalami's request, we closed our event with music from Morocco as well. Hear performances from New York-based band Imal Gnawa and conversation with bandleader Atlas Phoenix.
Book cover courtesy of the publisher
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Charles Sumner, Abolitionist and Civil War Advisor to Lincoln
2026/07/10 | 50 mins.
[REBROADCAST FROM July 5, 2025] Author Zaakir Tameez talks about his new biography, Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation. Sumner was a fierce abolitionist and statesman from Massachusetts who was a pivotal advisor to President Lincoln and an influential force during the Civil War.
Image courtesy of Brady-Handy Photograph Collection via Wikimedia Commons
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A Wonder Is What It Is: Nick Offerman Reads 'The Sycamore,' by Wendell Berry
2026/07/10 | 4 mins.
Actor, author, and woodworker Nick Offerman hosts "A Wonder Is What It Is," an audio series from All Of It with Alison Stewart celebrating poetry and inspired by Nick's love for writer, farmer and activist Wendell Berry. In each episode, Nick reads a poem and shares his reflections.
Today's poem is "The Sycamore" by Wendell Berry.
Produced by Simon Close
Mixing by Amber D Bruce
Music composed by Mark Greenberg at The Mayfair Workshop
Art by Greg Ruth
Series co-created by Nick Offerman, Simon Close and Carla Parisi
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Grief and Family Secrets in "The Loved Ones"
2026/07/09 | 29 mins.
In the play "The Loved Ones," a woman prepares to scatter her son's ashes alongside his widow at a remote farmhouse in Ireland. And then there's a knock on the door. Actors Maryann Plunkett, Alana Raquel Bowers and Clare O’Malley star, and they join us in person to discuss the play, which is playing at the Irish Repertory Theater through August 2.
Production photo by Carol Rosegg
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2026 Tiny Desk Winners Cure for Paranoia Perform
2026/07/09 | 25 mins.
The Tiny Desk Contest On The Road tour brings 2026 winners Cure for Paranoia to Warsaw in Brooklyn tonight. The band stops by to perform and frontman Cameron McCloud previews the show.
Photo by Rick Kern/Getty Images: Cameron McCloud of Cure for Paranoia performs in concert during NPR's Tiny Desk Contest On The Road tour at Emo's Austin on June 24, 2026 in Austin, Texas
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