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Blood & Ink (Beach Reads)
September 30, 2026 · 45 minToday, we're joined by Vanity Fair journalist Joe Pompeo to talk about the unsolved 1922 murders of Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills. In his book, Blood & Ink, Joe tells the riveting story of how this double homicide captured the national…
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The Art Spy (Beach Reads)
September 16, 2026 · 1 hr 3 minToday, I'm re-releasing my interview with Michelle Young, author of The Art Spy, a riveting account of the life and heroics of Rose Valland, a museum curator who spied on the Nazis during their occupation of France in World War II. The…
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Book and Dagger (Beach Reads)
September 2, 2026 · 33 minToday, we're joined by historian Elyse Graham to talk about Book and Dagger, her riveting account of how the OSS, a precursor to the CIA, recruited scholars, artists, and activists to help the U.S. spy on the Nazis during World War II. If…
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Capone's Vault (Beach Reads)
August 19, 2026 · 38 minForty years ago, millions of Americans turned on their TVs to watch The Mysteries of Al Capone's Vault. In this live broadcast, construction workers blasted their way into a subterranean chamber beneath Chicago's Lexington Hotel, believed…
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The Witch of New York (Beach Reads)
August 5, 2026 · 43 minToday, I'm joined by Alex Hortis, author of The Witch of New York, a riveting account of the 1843 trials of Polly Bodine. A resident of Staten Island, Bodine was accused of murdering her sister-in-law and her infant niece, sparking public…
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Born in Flames (Beach Reads)
July 22, 2026 · 47 minToday, we're joined by historian Bench Ansfield to talk about their breathtaking book, Born in Flames. It's about the arson wave of the 1970s, during which hundreds--yes, hundreds--of landlords in the Bronx set fire to their property to…
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Hollywood Double Agent (Beach Reads)
July 8, 2026 · 49 minToday, we're joined by historian Jonathan Gill to talk about the amazing life of Boris Morros. After the Russian Revolution, Morros immigrated to America from Eastern Europe and became a big-time Hollywood filmmaker. To an outside…
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The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum (Beach Reads)
July 1, 2026 · 59 minThis week, I'm re-releasing my 2024 interview with Margalit Fox, author of The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum, a biography of the notorious nineteenth-century New York crime boss, Fredericka Mandelbaum. Next week, we're back with a brand-new…