Category: Yale Press Podcast

Paul V. Turner on Frank Lloyd Wright and San Francisco

Paul V. Turner on Frank Lloyd Wright and San Francisco

Paul V. Turner, Wattis Professor Art, Emeritus, at Stanford University, interviewed by Jessica Holahan about Professor Turner’s new book, Frank Lloyd Wright and San Francisco, which delves into the entirety of Wright’s built and unbuilt projects in California’s Bay Area.

Joan Marter on the Women of Abstract Expressionism

Joan Marter on the Women of Abstract Expressionism

Rutgers professor Joan Marter discusses the recently-published book she edited: Women of Abstract Expressionism, which delves into the lives and artwork of dozens of women artists in America in the 1940s and 1950s who painted in the style that would come to be known as Abstract Expressionism.

A Conversation with Jennifer Michael Hecht

A Conversation with Jennifer Michael Hecht

In this episode, Jennifer Michael Hecht, author of Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It, speaks with Yale University Press Director John Donatich, about how we can forestall the rising tide of suicides in the United States and worldwide, combing through the history of suicide to recover the most powerful arguments against the irretrievable act.