Lapham's Quarterly: The Podcast
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Podcast Description
Interviews, readings, and audio ephemera from the editors and contributors of Lapham's Quarterly.
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Episode #25: David Javerbaum | David Javerbaum, former head writer of The Daily Show and current mortal secretary to God, talks about God's latest book, the hilarious "telleth-all" The Last Testament. | 2/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode #24: Musharraf Ali Farooqi | Ever heard of one of world literature's most famous heroes, Amir Hamza? If not, you're not alone, and LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark speaks with Musharraf Ali Farooqi, translator of The Adventures of Amir Hamza, about this tremendous figure and the fantastic stories about him. | 1/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode #23: Peter Ackroyd | Author and translator Peter Ackroyd talks with Aidan Flax-Clark about his new retelling of Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur and discusses a little bit about his most recent London history, London Under. | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode #22: Sarah Vowell | Historian, radio star, and newest contributor to The Daily Show, Sarah Vowell reads from LQ's Future issue: Mark Twain's hilarious "Earthquake Almanac," William Safire's preparatory presidential space-disaster speech, and Futurist extraordinaire Filippo Marinetti's, attack on pasta. | 11/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode #21: John Crowley, part 2 | John Crowley talks about his classic novel Little, Big with LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark in the second part of their conversation. | 10/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode #20: John Crowley | Novelist John Crowley talks with LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark about why the future is disappearing from people's imaginations and why it's being replaced by the past. | 9/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode #19: Marc Maron | Marc Maron, standup comedian and host of the WTF podcast, talks with LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark about reading, why his books might be bullying him, and why you can't go wrong with a good mac-and-cheese recipe. | 8/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode #18: Brent Cunningham | Columbia Journalism Review managing editor Brent Cunningham comes on to talk with LQ editor Elias Altman about the trials and tribulations of the modern food-reform movement, and his essay, "Pastoral Romance," which appears in the new Lapham's Quarterly issue Food. | 7/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode #17: Jason Goodwin | LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark talks with novelist Jason Goodwin about Turkish food, the delights of eating in the Ottoman empire, and his series of historical mystery novels, with their main character, the eunuch investigator Yashim, solving crimes and cooking his way through nineteenth-century Istanbul. | 6/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode #16: Ed Dante | Author of "The Shadow Scholar," Ed Dante (pseudonym) talks with LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark about his career in the college-paper-writing business and the problems in American higher education. | 6/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode #15: Liev Schreiber | Liev Schreiber reads three excerpts from the pages of the Quarterly, all on the theme of jobs. The actor takes on Anton Chekhov, Salman Rushdie, and Buffalo Bill. | 5/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode #14: Philip Connors | Philip Connors came by the LQ offices to talk with editor Elias Altman about his book Fire Season and the essay adapted from it that appears in the new Lapham's Quarterly issue, Lines of Work. | 4/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode #13: Donovan Hohn | Donovan Hohn came by the LQ offices to talk with Aidan Flax-Clark about his book Moby Duck, as well as his essay "Lost Symbols," which appears in the new Lapham's Quarterly issue, Lines of Work. | 4/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode #12: Lewis Lapham's Newspaper Days | Strange tales of the newspaper business in late-1950s San Francisco and Oakland, from Lapham's Quarterly founder and editor Lewis Lapham, live at the Moth, 2003. | 3/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode #11: Coleman Barks | Associate editor Aidan Flax-Clark talks to poet Coleman Barks about his work translating the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic poet Rumi. | 3/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode #10: Linda Emond, Mandy Patinkin, Michael Stuhlbarg | Live from Joe's Pub, part 2. We had a release party at Joe's Pub in New York for our Celebrity issue, and we invited some real celebrities to join in the festivities and read some of their favorite excerpts from the issue. In part 2 of our Joe's Pub podcast, we hear from Linda Emond and Mandy Patinkin reading from Truman Capote, and then Linda Emond and Michael Stuhlbarg read a scene from Sunset Boulevard. | 2/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode #9: Alec Baldwin, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mandy Patinkin, Taylor Mac | Live from Joe's Pub, part 1. We had a release party for our Celebrity issue, and we invited some real celebrities to help us make merry by reading some of their favorite excerpts from it. In this podcast and the next, we'll play you our favorite bits of the night. Part 1 features readings by Alec Baldwin and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and a song by Taylor Mac and Mandy Patinkin. | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode #8: Paul Collins | Lapham's Quarterly starts its new year of podcasts by offering up editor Michelle Legro's interview with Paul Collins. Collins spoke to her last December about Barbara Newhall Follett, a forgotten child prodigy who published her first novel in 1927 at age twelve to wide acclaim, and then, despite the promise of a great literary career, slipped into obscurity and literally disappeared in 1939, never to be seen again. Collins traces her life and work in his essay "Vanishing Act," which appears in Lapham's Quarterly's Winter 2011 issue Celebrity. | 1/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode #7: With the Beatles | In 1968 the Beatles visited the ashram of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to study Transcendental Meditation. Though many tried to gain access, the only journalist allowed in was Lewis Lapham, who was writing about the Maharishi and TM for the Saturday Evening Post. Listen to him talk about his visit and read from the book he wrote about the experience, With the Beatles. | 12/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode #6: Pevear and Volokhonsky | Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky are two of the most well-known translators of Russian prose working today. Editor Aidan Flax-Clark sits down with the pair to talk about Russian literature and their new translation of Boris Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago." | 12/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 20 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
LQ Breaks through
Lapham's Quarterly continues to inspire. Looking forward to more podcasts!
Get the sound right
Such a great magazine, with such brilliant writing..so why not make some effort in the debut podcast to make sure the audio doesn't sound it was recorded using string tethered to a soup can. It's 2010.
Frank
Almost always an interesting interview
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