At Lunch with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Julie Salamon, New York Times best-selling author, sits down with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro to discuss his latest book, Daylight Come: Harry Belafonte and the World He Made. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer whose books include Names of New York: Discovering the City’s Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names; Island People: The Caribbean and the World; and, with Rebecca Solnit, Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas. His work appears regularly in publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The New York Review of Books. Jelly-Schapiro teaches journalism at New York University and is director of publishing at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, where he hosts the popular Author Talks series and is coeditor-in-chief of Pioneer Works Broadcast.