William Shatner, Dawoud Bey, NYPL Archives Exhibit, September Get Lit

William Shatner has a new autobiographical album out today called Bill, which mixes music, prose, and poetry, and features the contributors like Joe Walsh, Brad Paisley, Robert Randolph, Joe Jonas, and more. Shatner joins us for a Listening Party. Photographer and MacArthur fellow Dawoud Bey joins us to discuss his two exhibitions open now in New York City: “An American Project” at the Whitney, running through October 3; and “In This Here Place” at the Sean Kelly Gallery, which captures plantations throughout Louisiana as part of his African American history series, running through October 23. Declan Kiely, director of Special Collections and Exhibitions at the New York Public Library, joins us to preview "The Polonsky Exhibition of the New York Public Library's Treasures," opening today, which features over 250 rare items of the Library's 46 million objects in its collection. We air highlights from our September "Get Lit with All Of It" book club event with Jonathan Lee about his novel, The Great Mistake, which centers on the life and murder of Andrew Haswell Green, one of the power brokers of New York City, central to the creation of Central Park, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Natural History, and our partners, the New York Public Library. We also air performances and an interview with our musical guest Claudi of Pinc Louds.