A conversation with 2023 Peggy V Helmerich Distinguished Author Amor Towles.

Museum Confidential: Season 8, Episode 1.

What about the whole "separation of church and state" thing?

Rich Fisher, the host of this long-running, award-winning interview show, gets an exit interview from Scott Gregory, the producer/editor of StudioTulsa.

TAARA is a newly-formed organization that advocates for better transparency regarding the environmental health of the Arkansas River.

Our longtime book reviewer offers several page-turning tips for the beach, the lake, the sofa, the hammock, the cool, well-lit spot by the air-conditioner, etc.

A book of essays, stories, and Twitter poems that takes on themes of sickness, health, dying, living, grief, and joy -- the remarkable musings of one doctor and the patients who have shaped him.

"Engrossing.... A fascinating reflection on the connection between food, place, and what flavors mean to the people who prepare them and those who travel to seek them out." -- Travel + Leisure

The newly-opened exhibit will be on view through October 8th of this year.

The Stanford Family Liberty Garden and the Bumgarner Family Foundation Lotus Pool have just been completed -- yet the Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting events for both are being rescheduled for late July.

The numbers are alarming -- about 10.2% of American households are food insecure, and about 15.6% Oklahoma households are food insecure.

"An eye-opening history of nine African American women in medicine.... This immersive tribute to a group of pioneering women will inspire readers of all backgrounds." -- Publishers Weekly

"This deeply researched and impressive study brings home the fact that America underinvests in the education of its children -- and that teachers step in to fill the gaps." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"In this rewarding study, environmental philosophy professor Preston provides reason to be hopeful about endangered species.... The surprisingly intimate accounts of species bouncing back from the brink of extinction serve as glimmers of hope against the backdrop of climate despair." -- Publishers Weekly

"This perceptive book is an insightful account, appealing to the aficionado and scholar alike." -- Todd Wright, Director of Jazz Studies, Hayes School of Music, Appalachian State University

These are the newly-posted online Gilcrease collections: The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Indigenous Paintings, and The Work of Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran.

"The story of a painful but inspiring search for a cure for a fatal disease.... A moving argument for a more focused, humane, and efficient system for conducting medical research." -- Kirkus (starred review)

"Riveting history.... Excellently rendered." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Rigorous and innovative.... Hallman successfully transforms Anarcha from historical object to subject, and shines a light on the contentious rise of medical ethics in the 19th century. It's a must-read." -- Publishers Weekly

"A fascinating, heartening account of successful advocacy in the scientific and academic communities." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Our guest is Ambassador Mark Lagon; he recently gave an address (with the title cited above) at the Tulsa Committee on Foreign Relations.

"Nuila practices internal medicine in Houston at Ben Taub Hospital, but the doctor's new book might take place in any big city where the uninsured -- like the patients he chronicles here -- face astronomical fees, mazes of endless paperwork, and poor or insufficient diagnoses made by exhausted medical professionals. Nuila's storytelling gifts place him alongside colleagues like Atul Gawande." -- The Los Angeles Times

"A compelling yarn.... Roberts's storytelling soars as she leads the reader through Edith's machinations to hide her husband's disabilities while maintaining his White House's functions." -- The Washington Post

We share Episode One of The Switchyard Podcast, which will be posted monthly at the PRT website and at various other platforms. The guest is Art Spiegelman, the renowned American cartoonist, writer, and editor.

Our guest will perform with his quintet tomorrow night (Thursday the 1st) at LowDown.

"Queen Brunhild and Queen Fredegund are restored to center stage.... Puhak presents a vivid picture of how they skillfully preserved their lives, their power, and their families.... She also imagines what it might mean if girls [today] found them featured more prominently in their textbooks. History readers will be enthralled." -- Shelf Awareness

"[This] book will guide you to understand why metabolism and mitochondria are fundamental to keeping your brain healthy." -- Dr. Ana C. Andreazza, professor of pharmacology and psychiatry at the University of Toronto

This impressive show, with 50-plus works spanning 500 years of European painting, is on view through May 28th.

Our guest is the creator of "Gender Queer: A Memoir," which was the most challenged book of 2021-22, according to the American Library Association.

Our esteemed guest, who's speaking tonight (the 24th) on the TU campus, was the chairwoman (as appointed by President Clinton) of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights from 1993 to 2004.

"With poise and restraint, Rilla Askew's historical novel 'Prize for the Fire' tells the brilliant, multifaceted story of an intelligent, virtuous, and indomitable woman." -- Foreword Reviews

"[This book takes] an engrossing look at why relationships matter, featuring an unprecedented abundance of data to back it up." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

The final concert of the TSO's current season will happen on Saturday night, the 20th, at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center.

We discuss a Founding Father biography that was named a "Best Book of 2022" by The New York Times, The New Yorker, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, and various other outlets.

Our guest, who spoke recently here in Tulsa, is the Program Director for the American Committees on Foreign Relations.

How will our evermore digital civilization persist beyond our lifetime? Audio- and videotapes demagnetize; CDs delaminate; Internet art works often link to websites that no longer exist; etc. This book argues that the vulnerability of new media in the art world points to a larger crisis for our social memory.

"If you are a high achiever and you know -- you just know -- that you could achieve even more and be happier if you could wrestle your anxiety to the ground, this is your playbook.... Well-researched, highly practical, searingly candid, and deeply empathic." -- Whitney Johnson, author of "Smart Growth"

The Golden Anniversay of Mayfest has arrived; the free, outdoor, arts-and-music festival runs from today (Friday the 12th) through Sunday the 14th in both the Tulsa Arts District and the Historic Greenwood District.

From Tom Piazza -- whose books include the novels "A Free State" and "City of Refuge" -- comes a new work of fiction set at a writer's conference attended by Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, and others.

"A seasoned historical storyteller, Cozzens portrays both Jackson and his Creek adversaries without minimizing their flaws, though he is clearly appalled by Jackson's later treatment of the Indians during the Trail of Tears.... An authoritative account." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred)

One of the hottest choreographers working in the U.S. today, Weber is nominated for two Tony Awards for the 2022-2023 Broadway season -- for "& Juliet" and "KPOP" (two shows that opened less than a week apart).

"In this collection of brief, touching essays, an emergency room doctor presents poignant stories about disease and loneliness and argues that medical professionals are 'stewards' of their patients' stories, morally obligated to look beyond data and tests." -- The New York Times Book Review

"An energetic case for rethinking America's economy in favor of working people." — Kirkus Reviews

An individual who's enriched and enlightened the lives of countless Tulsans, Rabbi Fitzerman came to Congregation B'nai Emunah back in the Eighties; he'll soon retire from his leadership at the Synagogue.

"Masterful.... This book is an enduring, formidable accomplishment, a monument to the power of biography [that] now becomes the definitive work [on Hoover]." -- The Washington Post

"Printmaking: Art and the Written Word" reveals several centuries of European history; the materials in this exhibit reflect spirituality, culture, and academic thought from the Reformation up to the time of the Italian courts.

"A briskly paced, heartfelt, often harrowing year in the life of an ER doctor on Chicago's historically Black South Side." -- San Francisco Chronicle

Here's an engrossing, foodie-friendly road trip along Route 66...with plenty of stops at diners, supper clubs, and roadside stands; the book also describes how and why such venues came and went over the years...and even offers kitchen-tested recipes from various historic eateries along the way.

A peer-reviewed academic journal dating back to the early 1960s, the JJQ offers critical and theoretical work focusing on the life, writing, reception, and influence of James Joyce.

A conversation with Paul Dabbar, who formerly served as the U.S. Department of Energy's Under Secretary for Science.

"What if there's life out there? What would that mean for us? Ms. Green's book, alive with the color and drama of science fiction as well as scientific fact, helps us grasp that process of imagining -- its limits and its greater purpose." -- The Wall Street Journal

"A powerfully illuminating narrative of how things changed over the last century or so, both thorough and compelling." -- The Baffler

Our guest will be the featured speaker at the commemoration, which happens at 7pm on Thursday the 20th at Temple Israel.

"A compelling yarn.... Roberts's storytelling soars as she leads the reader through Edith's machinations to hide her husband's disabilities while maintaining his White House's functions." -- The Washington Post

Isbin will soon perform a concert in Owasso with Amjad Ali Khan and his sons.

"Riveting history.... Excellently rendered." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

We offer a discussion of this new report with the executive director of the Healthy Minds Policy Initiative, a Tulsa-based nonprofit.

Dating back to the 1930s, this well-known annual festival offers international dance in many styles and traditions; such noted companies as Dance Theatre of Harlem, the Parsons Dance Company, and Trey McIntyre Project all made their debuts at "the Pillow."

As our guest notes in an award-winning article that she wrote for Mother Jones Magazine: "Failure-to-protect laws are incarcerating women all over the country -- for other people's violence."

How is Tulsa's chapter of Habitat for Humanity confronting the housing crisis now affecting virtually all of the US?

"The pandemic brought America's health inequities into stark relief, but [this book] illustrates that the problem isn't new, and that it is embedded more deeply than many of us realize.... Thrasher, a gay Black man, brings figures from the viral underclass to life in this engaging, enraging read." -- The Boston Globe

Surprisingly, many docs working in the US today never learned about lifestyle medicine during med school or residency.

Known for his camera work on films like "The Shawshank Redemption," "No Country for Old Men," "Blade Runner 2049," and "1917," Deakins is also, as his book "Byways" makes clear, a brilliant and perceptive B&W photographer.

Rekdal's multimedia piece, "West: A Translation" -- which she'll read from here on campus -- employs translations, archival research, essays, poems, videos, and images in order to document the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay, where many Chinese migrants were detained after the implementation of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882.

Norris will deliver a talk on Friday night (the 31st) and lead a workshop on Saturday morning (the 1st).

Sáenz will appear at a free-to-the-public reading/signing on Saturday the 1st, at the TCCL's Central Library in downtown Tulsa; at this event, he'll receive the first-ever Hummingbird Award in Literary Arts.

"The story of a painful but inspiring search for a cure for a fatal disease.... A moving argument for a more focused, humane, and efficient system for conducting medical research." -- Kirkus (starred review)

His free address happens in the Reynolds Center on Tuesday night, the 28th, at 7:30pm.

Now in paperback, here is (per a starred review in Booklist) "possibly the most important book of the year.... Perlroth's precise, lucid, and compelling presentation of mind-blowing disclosures about the underground arms race a must-read exposé."

Based in the heart of the Tulsa Arts District, 108 Contemporary presents work by notable fine-craft artists from all over our region -- and from all over the nation.

Our guest — an impressively accomplished TU alum — spoke recently on the subject of international cyber-security at the TCFR.

"Nuila practices internal medicine in Houston at Ben Taub Hospital, but the doctor's new book might take place in any big city where the uninsured -- like the patients he chronicles here -- face astronomical fees, mazes of endless paperwork, and poor or insufficient diagnoses made by exhausted medical professionals. Nuila's storytelling gifts place him alongside colleagues like Atul Gawande." -- The Los Angeles Times

"Mukherjee has found an especially roomy subject for his roving intelligence.... I was repeatedly dazzled by [Mukherjee's] pointillist scenes, the enthusiasm of his explanations, the immediacy of his metaphors." -- Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times

News and notes regarding a memoir by a 7th Cavalry U.S. Army soldier who survived the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

"This deeply researched and impressive study brings home the fact that America underinvests in the education of its children -- and that teachers step in to fill the gaps." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

His article, "The Secret Weapons of Ukraine," appeared in the February 2023 issue of Esquire.