![]() Open the purple “Podcasts” app that’s preloaded on your phone. Episodes will automatically download to your device, and be ready for listening every Tuesday morning Subscribing to The NYPL Podcast on your mobile device is the easiest way to make sure you never miss an episode. How to listen to The New York Public Library Podcast Blood matters: from Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene, by Masha Gessen.Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace, by Masha Gessen.Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, by Suketu Mehta.Looking for the books and authors Masha Gessen mentioned during her lecture? They're all available from NYPL: Perhaps best known for her political criticism, both of Putin's Russia and Trump's America, Gessen's lecture was unexpectedly intimate and personal, tracing the story of her own life as a sequence of choices and exploring how notions of choice affect ideas about immigration, identity, and purpose. She won the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction for her most recent book The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia. Masha Gessen is a contributing op-ed writer at the New York Times, and a frequent contributor to, among others, The New York Review of Books. Silvers also sat on the Library’s Board of Trustees and was named a Library Lion in 2014. Gessen joins a list of writers including Joan Didion, Paul Krugman, Mary Beard, and Derek Walcott, who, since 2002, have delivered this annual lecture. In 2015 The New York Public Library acquired the archives of The New York Review of Books. Silvers founded the magazine in 1963 with Barbara Epstein and ran it solely after her death in 2006 he died in March of last year at the age of eighty-seven. Silvers lecture, which was created by Max Palevsky and named in honor of the the co-founding editor of The New York Review of Books. On this week's episode, journalist Masha Gessen delivers the Library's Robert B.
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