Colin McEnroe
Host, The Colin McEnroe ShowColin McEnroe is a radio host, newspaper columnist, magazine writer, author, playwright, lecturer, moderator, college instructor and occasional singer.
He started as a radio host in 1992 and moved to CT Public in 2009.
His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Hartford Courant, many Hearst newspapers, Men’s Health, Cosmopolitan, Forbes FYI, Mademoiselle, Mirabella, Backpacking, Bicycling, and McSweeney’s.
He teaches in the political science department at Yale. As an onstage interviewer and moderator, he has shared the stage with Stephen King, Anthony Bourdain, Joyce Carol Oates, Kurt Vonnegut, Tig Notaro, Marc Maron, Amy Tan, Bob Woodward, Tim Gunn, Alice Waters, Al Franken, Molly Ivins, Anita Hill and many others
He is allergic to penicillin. He dislikes coffee mugs that are black or any dark color. He finds them very upsetting.
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This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, novelist Joyce Maynard joins us again to talk about her latest novel, the blurring of life and fiction, and her new career running a hotel in Guatemala. -
Think you saw a mountain lion in Connecticut? That's very unlikely.
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The CDC’s changes come more than two and a half years after the start of the pandemic. But as a recent episode of The Colin McEnroe Show notes, “There’s still a pandemic going on.”
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This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, a look at the artist who defined the birth of rock and roll and was the genre’s first superstar: Elvis Presley.
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Stephen Sondheim was among the most important figures in the history of musical theater. This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, our tribute to Sondheim.
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This hour on the Colin McEnroe Show, we take your calls.
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This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, our ode to movie trailers.
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This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show: The Three Music Musketeers return! Are you bored with your playlist? We’ve reunited our trio of music mavens — novelist Wally Lamb, critic Eric Danton, and not-killed-by-video radio star Joan Holliday — to freshen up your music choices with great recommendations. Warning: This program includes banter.
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This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, a conversation not exactly about the recent anti-CRT hysteria on the right and not exactly about extreme wokeness on the left, but about how we talk and write and think and teach so that we acknowledge the wrongs of the past and how they show up in the present. Without driving each other nuts.
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Arts & CultureWho's afraid of the Bix bad Beiderbecke?Hartford has an amazing jazz history, and Colin has a lot of jazz musician friends. This hour, a little onstage…
