Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen

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Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen

Pádraig Ó Tuama

Poet, theologian, host of the On Being Studios podcast Poetry Unbound, he has a favorite pencil...

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Adrian Benepe

The president of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is proud that it is a treasure for the entire city...

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Ian Niederhoffer

Music offers more than aesthetic pleasure, asserts this conductor: “Music has the power to...

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David Leonhardt

Writer of “The Morning” newsletter for The New York Times and author of Ours Was the Shining...

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Joan Kron

I’m against nose jobs for ordinary noses (like mine), but this journalist, who’s covered cosmetic...

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Michael Miscione

This former Manhattan borough historian admires the enormously accomplished, nearly forgotten,...

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Peter Riegert

As a young actor (Local Hero, Crossing Delancey, Animal House) he played Goldberg in The Birthday...

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Kia Weatherspoon

This interior designer is celebrated for her work on low-income housing projects, but not...

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Eran Chen

This Israeli-American architect likes buildings, of course, but it’s the spaces between buildings...

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Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi

Some architects want their buildings to endure unchanged for all eternity, but these partners...

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Jennifer Johnson Cano

As a kid, this mezzo soprano sang in a church choir with this implicit purpose: “To bring joy to...

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Kelley Girod

Although utopia has not arrived, racial segregation has diminished since the reopening of the...

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Robert Bank

The International Declaration of Human Rights is a blueprint for compassionate, egalitarian,...

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Dwight Garner

This New York Times book critic has many off-the-job accomplishments: “Learning how to eat...

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Joshua Jay

This magician had mixed feelings when he figured out how a colleague performed an illusion. “It...

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Fernanda Chandoha

Her father, Walter, was the grand master of cat photography. “Growing up,” she says, “when you...

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Timothy Goodman

In addition to his work for corporations (Nike, Apple) and non-profits, this graphic designer...

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Ken Smith

Speaking at—and of—Gansevoort Plaza, a public space he designed, landscape architect Ken Smith...

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Bruce Adolphe

This composer, mastermind of “Piano Puzzlers,” feared premature death: “Schubert died at 31,...

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Alan Shayne

As young actor—he’s now 97— he studied with Stella Adler along with Marlon Brando, (“He was a...

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