NYIH Conversations
58 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsDiscussions with the New York Institute for the Humanities' distinguished scholars and writers about their work.
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The End of Books: A Lecture by Robert Coover
June 18, 2023 08:00 - 48 minutesRobert Coover spoke at the Institute in the spring of 2006. Coover is the author of over a dozen postmodern novels, including The Public Burning and Pinochio in Venice. He was one of the early supporters of electronic fiction, which he defended in “The End of Books,” a 1992 New York Times essay. Coover established Brown University’s MFA program in Digital Language Arts, and teaches courses on experimental narrative and literary hypermedia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...
Historian Laurence Stone on the Role and Revival of Narrative in History
December 27, 2022 09:00 - 49 minutesIn this week’s episode from the Institute’s Vault, we hear a lecture on the revival of narrative in history by Laurence Stone. Professor Stone taught at Princeton from 1963 to 1990. He died in 1991. He is best known for his books The Crisis of the Aristocracy, 1558-1641, The Causes of the English Revolution, 1529-1642, and Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800. Since 1977, the New York Institute for the Humanities has brought together distinguished scholars, writers, artists, and publ...
Eyal Press, "Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America" (Picador, 2022)
December 05, 2022 09:00 - 25 minutesIn the episode of Conversations from the Institute, we hear from Eyal Press, who is the author of Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict that Divided America (2006), Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times (2012), and Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America, which won the Hillman Prize. In the fall of 2002 he spoke about his book with Eliza Griswold, author of The Tenth Parallel: Dispatche...
Myself With Others: Adam Shatz talks with Joe Sacco
December 29, 2021 20:25 - 1 hour - 67.7 MBMyself With Others, the podcast created by Adam Shatz and Richard Sears, contains conversations with writers, musicians, and critics. In this episode, the NYIH is pleased to run Adam's discussion with the comic book artist and journalist, Joe Sacco.
Ben Ratliff talks with Kelefa Sanneh about Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres,
December 08, 2021 18:14 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBInstitute fellow Ben Ratliff talks with Kelefa Sanneh about his new book, Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres, which tells the story of popular music during the past fifty years.
Ben Ratliff talks with Kelefa Saneh about Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres,
December 08, 2021 18:14 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBInstitute fellow Ben Ratliff talks with Kelefa Saneh about his new book, Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres, which tells the story of popular music during the past fifty years.
Kelefa Sanneh on "Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres"
December 08, 2021 18:14 - 42 minutesInstitute fellow Ben Ratliff talks with Kelefa Sanneh about his new book, Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres, which tells the story of popular music during the past fifty years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The second half of George Lewis's conversation with Adam Shatz, Myself With Others
December 01, 2021 23:29 - 41 minutes - 94.9 MBMyself With Others, the podcast created by Adam Shatz and Richard Sears, contains conversations with writers, musicians, and critics. In this episode, the NYIH is pleased to run the second half of Adam's discussion with the musician, writer and professor, George Lewis.
George Lewis talks with Adam Shatz for Myself With Others
November 23, 2021 22:31 - 52 minutes - 71.6 MBMyself With Others, the podcast created by Adam Shatz and Richard Sears, contains conversations with writers, musicians, and critics. In this episode, the NYIH is pleased to run Adam's discussion with the musician, writer and professor, George Lewis.
Margo Jefferson talks with Adam Shatz for Myself With Others
November 10, 2021 20:10 - 1 hour - 101 MBMyself With Others, the podcast created by Adam Shatz and Richard Sears, contains conversations with writers, musicians, and critics. In this episode, the NYIH is pleased to run Adam's discussion with the critic Margo Jefferson, an Institute fellow, and Pulitzer Prize winner.
A conversation with Adam Shatz and Richard Sears about Myself With Others
November 08, 2021 16:04 - 16 minutes - 38.6 MBDuring the Covid shutdown, musician Richard Sears and critic Adam Shatz collaborated on a podcast, Myself With Others. In this episode of the NYIH podcast, we talk to them about the podcast's origins and ambitions.
Luke Menand talks about The Free World
April 16, 2021 15:16 - 34 minutes - 47.7 MBThe Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War, is Luke Menand’s fourth book. His last, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for history. Menand is a professor of English at Harvard, and a staff writer forThe New Yorker magazine
Louis Menand on "The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War"
April 16, 2021 15:16 - 36 minutesThe Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War, is Luke Menand’s fourth book. His last, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for history. Menand is a professor of English at Harvard, and a staff writer forThe New Yorker magazine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A conversation with Caitlin Zaloom
November 20, 2020 17:17 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBCaitlin Zaloom is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Her first book, Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology From Chicago to London, an ethnographic study of the international financial system, appeared in 2006. Her second book, Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost, was published in 2019.
Caitlin Zaloom on "Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost"
November 20, 2020 17:17 - 39 minutesCaitlin Zaloom is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Her first book, Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology From Chicago to London, an ethnographic study of the international financial system, appeared in 2006. Her second book, Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost, was published in 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lee Gutkind
November 06, 2020 13:08 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBLee Gutkind is the founder and editor of Creative Nonfiction, and teaches in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University. His memoir, My Last Eight Thousand Days: An American Man in His Seventies, was published by Georgia University Press.
Lee Gutkind on "My Last Eight Thousand Days: An American Man in His Seventies"
November 06, 2020 13:08 - 23 minutesLee Gutkind is the founder and editor of Creative Nonfiction, and teaches in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University. His memoir, My Last Eight Thousand Days: An American Man in His Seventies, was published by Georgia University Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ben Taylor
May 19, 2020 15:37 - 24 minutes - 23.5 MBNovelist and Institute Fellow Ben Taylor talks about Here We Are, a memoir of his friendship with Philip Roth. Taylor is the author of two previous memoirs--Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay, and The Hue and Cry in Our House, which received the 2018 Los Angeles Times/Christopher Isherwood Prize.
Ben Taylor on His Friendship with Philip Roth
May 19, 2020 15:37 - 26 minutesNovelist and Institute Fellow Ben Taylor talks about Here We Are, a memoir of his friendship with Philip Roth. Taylor is the author of two previous memoirs--Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay, and The Hue and Cry in Our House, which received the 2018 Los Angeles Times/Christopher Isherwood Prize. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Honor Moore
May 12, 2020 23:43 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBIn addition to three collections of poetry, NYIH fellow Honor Moore is the author of several celebrated works of nonfiction, including The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margaret Singer by Her Granddaughter and The Bishop's Daughter, a memoir of her father. Her newest book is Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter Mid-Century. Here, she talks about the book, women's lives and second-wave feminism, writing a hybrid of biography memoir, and the experience of publishing a book in the mid...
Honor Moore on "Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter Mid-Century"
May 12, 2020 23:43 - 29 minutesIn addition to three collections of poetry, NYIH fellow Honor Moore is the author of several celebrated works of nonfiction, including The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margaret Singer by Her Granddaughter and The Bishop's Daughter, a memoir of her father. Her newest book is Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter Mid-Century. Here, she talks about the book, women's lives and second-wave feminism, writing a hybrid of biography memoir, and the experience of publishing a book in the midd...
Ben Moser on Susan Sontag
May 05, 2020 22:02 - 44 minutesBiographer Benjamin Moser talks with Robert Boynton about the making of his 2019 biography of Susan Sontag, which was awarded to Pulitizer Prize. Moser’s previous book, a biography of the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Deirdre Bair
April 20, 2020 17:36 - 29 minutes - 27.9 MBThis episode pays tribute to longtime fellow Deirdre Bair, who passed away on April 18, 2020. The author of six biographies and two memoirs, Bair received the National Book Award for her 1978 biography of Samuel Beckett. At a January 2020 NYIH luncheon, she discussed her final book, Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me, a Memoir, and looked back at her celebrated career.
Deirdre Bair on "Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me"
April 20, 2020 17:36 - 31 minutesThis episode pays tribute to longtime fellow Deirdre Bair, who passed away on April 18, 2020. The author of six biographies and two memoirs, Bair received the National Book Award for her 1978 biography of Samuel Beckett. At a January 2020 NYIH luncheon, she discussed her final book, Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir, and looked back at her celebrated career. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Peter Filkins
April 01, 2020 15:06 - 25 minutes - 24 MBPoet and NYIH Fellow Peter Filkins talks with Eric Banks about his exceptional involvement with the work of H.G. Adler, the Holocaust survivor who authored definitive fictional and ethnographic portraits of life in the camps. In 2019 Filkins published his biography of this extraordinary figure, a book that was preceded by his translation of the novelistic trilogy.
Peter Filkins on H. G. Adler and Holocaust
April 01, 2020 15:06 - 27 minutesPoet and NYIH Fellow Peter Filkins talks with Eric Banks about his exceptional involvement with the work of H.G. Adler, the Holocaust survivor who authored definitive fictional and ethnographic portraits of life in the camps. In 2019 Filkins published his biography of this extraordinary figure, a book that was preceded by his translation of the novelistic trilogy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro: New Orleans
February 24, 2020 18:31 - 22 minutes - 21.2 MBNYIH Fellow Josh-Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer whose last book, Island People, explored the Caribbean in all its complexities. On the occasion of Mardi Gras, he sat down with us to talk about New Orleans’s deep Caribbean roots.
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro on Mardi Gras's Caribbean Roots
February 24, 2020 18:31 - 24 minutesNYIH Fellow Josh-Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer whose last book, Island People, explored the Caribbean in all its complexities. On the occasion of Mardi Gras, he sat down with us to talk about New Orleans’s deep Caribbean roots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Clifford Thompson
February 19, 2020 18:49 - 19 minutes - 18.9 MBNYIH Fellow Clifford Thompson joins us to discuss his latest book, written in the aftermath of the 2016 election, What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues (Other Press).
Clifford Thompson on "What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues"
February 19, 2020 18:49 - 21 minutesNYIH Fellow Clifford Thompson joins us to discuss his latest book, written in the aftermath of the 2016 election, What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues (Other Press). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Vivian Gornick
February 11, 2020 15:30 - 25 minutes - 23.9 MBCelebrated memoirist and critic (and NYIH fellow) Vivian Gornick discusses her newest book, Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader, and tells us what she learned when she revisited the works that nourished her at different points in her life.
Vivian Gornick on "Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader"
February 11, 2020 15:30 - 27 minutesCelebrated memoirist and critic (and NYIH fellow) Vivian Gornick discusses her newest book, Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader, and tells us what she learned when she revisited the works that nourished her at different points in her life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
André Aciman
February 03, 2020 18:47 - 20 minutes - 19.8 MBAndré Aciman's 2007 novel Call Me By Your Name was the rare work of literary fiction that managed to develop an especially enthusiastic following, particularly in the wake of the recent film adaptation. With his recent novel Find Me, Aciman revisited the protagonists of his earlier work. A longtime fellow of the Institute, Aciman spoke to us about literary followups, music and literature, and the books that make readers weep.
André Aciman on "Find Me"
February 03, 2020 18:47 - 22 minutesAndré Aciman's 2007 novel Call Me By Your Name was the rare work of literary fiction that managed to develop an especially enthusiastic following, particularly in the wake of the recent film adaptation. With his recent novel Find Me, Aciman revisited the protagonists of his earlier work. A longtime fellow of the Institute, Aciman spoke to us about literary followups, music and literature, and the books that make readers weep. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Eliza Griswold
December 19, 2019 14:58 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBRobert Boynton talks with Eliza Griswold, poet and author of Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2019.
Eliza Griswold on "Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America"
December 19, 2019 14:58 - 28 minutesRobert Boynton talks with Eliza Griswold, poet and author of Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Patrick Radden Keefe
November 27, 2019 14:44 - 23 minutes - 22.5 MBNew Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe is the author of Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, a New York Times Bestseller, winner of the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Writing, and one of the 10 Best Books of 2019” according to both The New York Times and The Washington Post. In this episode, he talks with Melanie Rehak about Belfast of the past, the present, and the mind.
Patrick Radden Keefe on "Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland"
November 27, 2019 14:44 - 25 minutesNew Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe is the author of Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, a New York Times Bestseller, winner of the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Writing, and one of the 10 Best Books of 2019” according to both The New York Times and The Washington Post. In this episode, he talks with Melanie Rehak about Belfast of the past, the present, and the mind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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November 18, 2019 19:55 - 26 minutes - 25.4 MBIn 1982, the composer Philip Glass presented the NYIH GallatinLecture at NYU. In this episode of The Vault, he discusses his relationship to theater and his turn to working with texts--particularly his work on the opera Satyagraha and his then-forthcoming composition for the film Koyaanisqatsi
Lawrence Weschler
November 12, 2019 14:53 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MBLawrence "Ren" Weschler is the former director of the New York Institute for the Humanities and a two-time winner of the George Polk Award and won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle award for criticism. In this episode, Weschler describes the extraordinary and taxing story behind the writing of his most recent book, a biographical memoir of his late friend Oliver Sacks--a story that took almost three decades before culminating in the now published And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?
Lawrence Weschler on Oliver Sacks
November 12, 2019 14:53 - 31 minutesLawrence "Ren" Weschler is the former director of the New York Institute for the Humanities and a two-time winner of the George Polk Award and won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle award for criticism. In this episode, Weschler describes the extraordinary and taxing story behind the writing of his most recent book, a biographical memoir of his late friend Oliver Sacks--a story that took almost three decades before culminating in the now published And How Are You, Dr. Sacks? Learn more abo...
Jad Abumrad
January 29, 2019 17:18 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBJad Abumrad is the co-host and creator of Radiolab. He studied creative writing and music composition at Oberlin and, in 2011, was awarded a MacArthur Grant. In 2016 he launched More Perfect, a show about the US Supreme Court. In the fall of 2018, Abumrad produced The Most Perfect Album, a musical reimagining of the Constitution's 27 Amendments.
Jad Abumrad on Radiolab
January 29, 2019 17:18 - 37 minutesJad Abumrad is the co-host and creator of Radiolab. He studied creative writing and music composition at Oberlin and, in 2011, was awarded a MacArthur Grant. In 2016 he launched More Perfect, a show about the US Supreme Court. In the fall of 2018, Abumrad produced The Most Perfect Album, a musical reimagining of the Constitution's 27 Amendments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Siva Vaidyanathan
January 22, 2019 16:27 - 43 minutes - 40.5 MBInstitute fellow and University of Virginia media studies scholar Siva Vaidyanathan discusses his book, Anti-Social Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy
Siva Vaidyanathan on "Anti-Social Media"
January 22, 2019 16:27 - 45 minutesInstitute fellow and University of Virginia media studies scholar Siva Vaidyanathan discusses his book, Anti-Social Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Damion Searls: Translating Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries
January 10, 2019 18:31 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBInstitute fellow Damion Searls discusses his new translation of German writer Uwe Johnson's 1700-page novel of New York, Jahrestage--published by New York Review Classics under the title Anniversaries.
Damion Searls: Translating Uwe Johnson's "Anniversaries"
January 10, 2019 18:31 - 29 minutesInstitute fellow Damion Searls discusses his new translation of German writer Uwe Johnson's 1700-page novel of New York, Jahrestage--published by New York Review Classics under the title Anniversaries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ben Ratliff: What Is Virtuosity?
November 19, 2018 16:41 - 37 minutesWhat is virtuosity—and what does a music critic make of it? Worship it? Reject it? Ben Ratliff joins us to talk about the good and bad of virtuoso performance and how it has helped him think about the role of the critic in the age of Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bonus Episode: Philip Dray reads "The Deer"
November 05, 2018 16:09 - 14 minutesPhilip Dray reads "The Hunting of the Deer." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Philip Dray: The Fair Chase
October 22, 2018 19:59 - 29 minutes - 27.8 MBFrom Daniel Boone to "DIY" hipster hunting, The Fair Chase shows that hunting in America is a story as vast as the country itself, touching on everything from conservation to the history of guns to the emergence of modern sports. NYIH Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist Philip Dray spoke to us about his new book, which chronicles the surprising and sometimes fraught ways that hunting has touched so many aspects of the American experience.