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In the Studio: Ross Douthat tapes Overheard 9/18

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Overheard taping announcement

Please join KLRU’s Overheard with Evan Smith for an interview with Ross Douthat on September 18 at 4pm in KLRU’s Studio 6A (map). Doors open at 3:45pm. The event is free but an RSVP is required.

Josh Haner/The New York Times

Josh Haner/The New York Times

Ross Douthat is a conservative Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times. He joined the Times in 2009, previously working as a senior editor at The Atlantic. He has written a number of books, including Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics and Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class. He is also a film critic for National Review. Douthat is in Austin to speak at The Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture immediately following our taping.

We hope you’ll be there as Overheard with Evan Smith begins a fifth season of interviews featuring engaging conversations with fascinating people. The show airs on PBS stations nationally and presents a wide range of thoughtmakers and tastemakers from the fields of politics, journalism, business, arts, sports and more. Please join us and be part of the studio audience at this taping with Ross Douthat. And don’t forget you can watch past episodes anytime at klru.org/overheard.

In the Studio: Lizz Winstead tapes Overheard 9/16

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Please join KLRU’s Overheard with Evan Smith for an interview with Lizz Winstead on September 16 at 11am in KLRU’s Studio 6A (map). Doors open at 10:30am. The event is free but an RSVP is required. RSVP Now

lizz winsteadLizz Winstead is co-creator, a former writer and a former correspondent for The Daily Show. She also co-founded Air America Radio. Winstead is now well known as one of the country’s top political satirists. Her writing can be found in The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post and in her 2012 book, Lizz Free or Die. Winstead is in Austin to keynote Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas’ 2014 Austin Annual Dinner.

We hope you’ll be there as Overheard with Evan Smith begins a fifth season of interviews featuring engaging conversations with fascinating people. The show airs on PBS stations nationally and presents a wide range of thoughtmakers and tastemakers from the fields of politics, journalism, business, arts, sports and more. Please join us and be part of the studio audience at this taping with Lizz Winstead. And don’t forget you can watch past episodes anytime at klru.org/overheard.

In the Studio: Mark Bittman & Lawrence Wright tape Overheard 9/12

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Please join KLRU’s Overheard with Evan Smith for interviews with Mark Bittman & Lawrence Wright on September 12 in KLRU’s Studio 6A. One RSVP will grant you admission to both tapings. RSVP now

4:45 pm Mark Bittman (doors at 4:15pm)
5:45 pm Lawrence Wright (doors as soon as Bittman interview is complete)
Audience members are welcome to stay in their seats after the Bittman taping if they plan to attend the taping with Lawrence Wright. 

BittmanCreditSallySteinMark Bittman is an opinion columnist and lead food writer for The New York Times. His “Minimalist” column ran in the Times’ Dining section for more than 13 years. He’s written two books, the best-selling How to Cook Everything and the groundbreaking VB6: Eat Vegan Before6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health…for Good, which introduced Americans to the Flexitarian diet. His newest book, How to Cook Everything Fast, is out October 7. Bittman is in Austin to speak at the Food + Health 2014 conference.

LW credit Kenny BraunLawrence Wright is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and staff writer for The New Yorker. His newest book, out September 16, is Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David, a day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David Accords. Wright won the Pulitzer in 2007 for his book Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. He last taped Overheard in January 2013 to discuss his best-seller, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief.

We hope you’ll be there as Overheard with Evan Smith begins a fifth season of interviews featuring engaging conversations with fascinating people. The show airs on PBS stations nationally and presents a wide range of thoughtmakers and tastemakers from the fields of politics, journalism, business, arts, sports and more. Please join us and be part of the studio audience at theses tapings with Mark Bittman and Lawrence Wright. And don’t forget you can watch past episodes anytime at klru.org/overheard.