Regular Guests

Ruth Reichl

Ruth Reichl

Ruth Reichl, editor of Gourmet magazine and author of the bestselling memoirs Tender at the Bone and Comfort Me with Apples, is a regular monthly guest on The Leonard Lopate Show.

Bringing along her wit, enthusiasm, and incredible knowledge of food, Ruth, along with various guests, explores with Leonard a provocative range of topics examining the history, people, places, and politics of food - asking us all to consider why we eat what we eat, where it comes from, and whether we should care.

See what's in Ruth's Survival Kit
Ruth joins Dish host Ed Levine at Beppe
Gourmet Magazine Epicurious
Tender at the Bone on Amazon.com
Confort Me with Apples on Amazon.com

Patricia T. O'Conner

Word maven Patricia T. O'Conner, a former staff editor at The New York Times Book Review, is the author of Woe Is I, Words Fail Me, and You Send Me (written with Stewart Kellerman). She joins The Leonard Lopate Show every month to take listeners' calls about language.

Woe Is I is available for purchase at amazon.com
Words Fail Me is available for purchase at amazon.com
You Send Me is available for purchase at amazon.com

Read about grammar myths, test your e-mail I.Q., and pick up some writing tips at grammarphobia.com

Patricia T. O'Conner's favorite reference books:
The Elements of Style, Strunk and White
The Careful Writer, Theodore M. Bernstein
A Dictionary of Modern American Usage, Bryan A. Garner
The New York Public Library Writer's Guide to Style and Usage
Fowler's Modern English Usage, 2nd edition, revised by Sir Ernest Gowers
On Writing Well, William Zinsser
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language 4th edition
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 11th edition
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (for serious wordies)

Al and Larry Ubell

Al and Larry Ubell, also known as the Gurus-of-How-To, join the Leonard Lopate Show every month answer to listener calls on the nuts & bolts of home-repair.

Accurate Building Inspectors website