Latest Artistresidency Podcast Episodes
Carson Comeback!
Shadow // Yaddo - June 04, 2024 16:53 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsRevel in all things Carson McCullers, the wunderkind writer who catapulted to fame in 1940 with the publication of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. On tap: Mary V. Dearborn, author of the biography Carson McCullers: A Life; and Suzanne Vega.
Secret Studio Lives
Shadow // Yaddo - March 27, 2024 19:35 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsAudio from 1890, the symbolic power of pizza, blue suede shoes, thinking like a vulture, and more in our season roundup of favorite moments, with Nafis White, Chris Rush, Alexi Worth, Odili Donald Odita, Daron Hagen, Sam Lipsyte, Will Hermes, Lee Clay Johnson, David Gates, Brian Evenson, Ilana B...
Hair's Breadth
Shadow // Yaddo - January 04, 2024 18:21 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsInterdisciplinary artist Nafis M. White on unraveling history, finding resilience and beauty in loss, and enlisting raw materials like hair to explore power and identity.
Somewhere
Shadow // Yaddo - December 14, 2023 14:41 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsLeonard Bernstein—the conductor and composer known globally for his charisma and style—comes roaring back into the public discourse. We celebrate Lenny’s relationship with Yaddo via a conversation with one of his mentees, acclaimed composer Daron Hagen. PLUS: Edgar Oliver, “the poet laureate of ...
Form, Scale, Medium
Shadow // Yaddo - November 23, 2023 17:05 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsArt converges with nature, meticulous work that spans decades and continents, making the impossible possible and more, with a feature on internationally acclaimed sculptor Martin Puryear. PLUS: Preview Missy Mazzoli’s “Dark with Excessive Bright”—nominated for a Grammy, fingers crossed!
Understory
Shadow // Yaddo - November 09, 2023 21:41 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsForest restoration, how families avoid reality, coming to terms with trauma, healthy ecosystems and more, with luminous storyteller Martha McPhee, author of five novels and the long-awaited memoir, Omega Farm. PLUS: A recap of the Yaddo Artist Reunion! Contributing artist: Joseph Keckler.
A Tear in the Veil
Shadow // Yaddo - October 26, 2023 20:30 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsGhosts, artificial intelligence, horror, estrangement and more, with acclaimed writers Vauhini Vara (The Immortal King Rao, This Is Salvaged) and Brian Evenson, author of a dozen books of fiction, including Altmann’s Tongue and The Open Curtain. Contributing artist: Joseph Keckler.
True Song
Shadow // Yaddo - August 10, 2023 16:01 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn the Black roots of the banjo, the godfather of bluegrass, novelist as bandleader, and more, with a trio of talented musicians and writers: Celebrated author, bass player and literary outlaw Lee Clay Johnson in conversation with the incomparable David Gates, powerhouse on guitar, vocals, pedal...
Blue Is the Cure
Shadow // Yaddo - July 20, 2023 18:25 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsExplore liminal worlds with three phenomenal Yaddo artists: Painter Elliott Green and the writer and artist Chris Rush on landscapes of the mind, blue suede shoes, outsider empathy and more. Plus: Eleni Sikelianos performs an excerpt of the title poem from her latest collection, Your Kingdom. Co...
Wild Side
Shadow // Yaddo - July 06, 2023 18:33 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn music, the ’90s, and NYC cool: Bestselling novelist Sam Lipsyte (The Ask, Home Land, No One Left to Come Looking for You) in conversation with esteemed music critic, journalist and author of the forthcoming magnum opus, a biography of Lou Reed, Will Hermes.
All a Canvas Holds
Shadow // Yaddo - June 22, 2023 20:49 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsEvery art form has its own language, a puzzle to unlock. One of the great joys of life is having a conversation with an artist who can decipher the code for us and allow us to see paintings anew. For this episode, we visit art galleries with two phenomenal Yaddo artists: Odili Donald Odita—the ...
Hear Now
Shadow // Yaddo - June 01, 2023 21:05 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsArchival audio, a love story, new tech, and more! Hear some of the first sounds ever recorded: The New York Public Library (NYPL) digitized rare wax cylinders from Yaddo’s archive and made them available for the first time in more than 130 years. We’ll chat with the NYPL team who made this happe...
Trash!
Shadow // Yaddo - May 18, 2023 19:24 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsShadow Yaddo hosted by Elaina Richardson is out now! Tres—Ilana Boltvinik and Rodrigo Viñas—is an art research collective based in Mexico City. They explore the implications of garbage on critical ecosystems, relying upon artistic inquiry, science, anthropology, and archeology, among other dis...
Snow Day!
Shadow // Yaddo - December 08, 2022 20:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsCelebrating the conclusion of Season 2, with a behind-the-scenes take on Shadow // Yaddo. Plus: A few of our favorite moments featuring Moby, Terry McMillan, Mark Morris, Elizabeth Strout and more dazzling talents. Contributing artists: Joseph Keckler, John Coltrane, Patricia Towers, Colm Tóibín...
Divine Dissonance
Shadow // Yaddo - November 17, 2022 16:36 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsInhabiting the space between two places, forms or cultures and exploring the tensions that dissonance creates: Celebrated author Gish Jen on post-Nixon China, finding humor in heartbreak, and her intuitive approach to writing virtuosic fiction. Syrian writer Ayad Awwadawnan on the hopes, dreams a...
Above & Beyond
Shadow // Yaddo - November 04, 2022 00:03 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsHere are two of the hardest working artists we know: Sculptor Harry Leigh on the decades of discipline that saw him through more than half a century of making art, plus his new show in Berlin. And Acclaimed filmmaker Javier Barboza on growing up in East L.A., turning talent into gold, and buildi...
Showing Stories
Shadow // Yaddo - October 20, 2022 14:39 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsBoom, pow, bang! Nerd-out with the cool kids of comix: Emmy- and Ringo- award winning artist and writer Dean Haspiel in conversation with acclaimed painter and cartoonist Pat Palermo on the quotidian life, faux bravado, truth as prism—and all you never knew about Spiderman. PLUS: Superstar novel...
Keep On
Shadow // Yaddo - October 06, 2022 14:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsPatricia Towers—extraordinary editor, formidable poker player and supreme Virgo—in conversation with bestselling novelist Elizabeth Strout on process, persistence and her new novel, Lucy by the Sea, hailed by The Guardian as the “most nuanced and intensely moving Lucy Barton novel yet.” PLUS: A ...
Big Bad Books
Shadow // Yaddo - September 23, 2022 14:18 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsBanned Books Week: Let’s celebrate and safeguard, come hell or highwater, our freedom to read! Bestselling novelist Colm Tóibín on Salman Rushdie’s work and activism, the history of censorship in Ireland, and the slippery slope that is book banning. PLUS: Ariel Schrag, whose YA anthology Stuck i...
State of Mind
Shadow // Yaddo - September 08, 2022 14:11 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsTime to get out of the hammock, and into the intellectual groove, with a discussion on narrative medicine, a field of study that applies skills used in analyzing literature to medicine, and the impacts of storytelling on our health, work and lives. Andrew Solomon is a writer and lecturer on poli...
Summer Break!
Shadow // Yaddo - June 02, 2022 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe’re incredibly grateful to all who’ve listened and contributed to our “little podcast that could,” which began in September 2020 and now has listeners on every continent! Before we take a short summer break, we put together a highlight reel with a few favorite moments. See you in August for mo...
“Interrogate & Celebrate”
Shadow // Yaddo - April 28, 2022 15:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsDanyel Smith on her new page-turner, Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop. With a self-described “lust for loud,” Danyel has spent decades as a reporter and editor on the music beat at major publications. This is the book she was born to write, braiding her own stories of ...
“Interrogate & Celebrate”, with Danyel Smith
Shadow // Yaddo - April 28, 2022 15:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsDanyel Smith on her new page-turner, Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop. With a self-described “lust for loud,” Danyel has spent decades as a reporter and editor on the music beat at major publications. This is the book she was born to write, braiding her own stories of a...
Jazz Hands, with Mark Morris and Fred Hersch
Shadow // Yaddo - April 07, 2022 14:36 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe’re betting on these virtuosic minds to power a post-pandemic renaissance: Mark Morris, “the most successful and influential choreographer alive” (The New York Times), and “living legend” (The New Yorker) Fred Hersch, jazz pianist and composer, on primal improvisation, ’60s tunes, the return to...
The Real Deal, with Terry McMillan
Shadow // Yaddo - March 17, 2022 14:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsAs an antidote to Orwellian doublespeak, we’re highlighting Yaddo artists whose work radiates authenticity: Bestselling novelist Terry McMillan on kicking booze to the curb, finding joy in a library, and writing clean prose with a clear head. PLUS: Theater superstar and songwriter extraordinaire...
Back on Broadway, with James Lapine, Doug Wright and Carol Lipnik
Shadow // Yaddo - February 24, 2022 15:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsCelebrating the return of live performance, with Pulitzer Prize-winning theater artists James Lapine—Sondheim-collaborator, director and screenwriter—and acclaimed playwright Doug Wright, whose Goodnight Oscar opens soon. PLUS: Mega-talented singer/songwriter Carol Lipnik shares music from her n...
Math as Language, with John Sims and Steve Buscemi
Shadow // Yaddo - February 03, 2022 15:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsConceptual artist, producer and activist John Sims on shredding confederate iconography, the power of Pi, quilting with the Amish, being handcuffed in his pajamas, the square root of love, and more. PLUS: Steve Buscemi reminds us why making art matters. Contributing artists: Joseph Keckler, John...
The Russians are Coming, with Gary Shteyngart, Sloane Crosley and Nathan Barr
Shadow // Yaddo - January 13, 2022 15:10 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsRinging in the “Old New Year” with literary supernovas Gary Shteyngart (Our Country Friends) and Sloane Crosley, whose forthcoming rom-com thriller, Cult Classic, takes on metaphysics, modern love, memory and mind control. PLUS Emmy Award-winning film and television composer Nathan Barr on his Mi...
You Belong Here, with Marianne Boruch and Lynn Freed
Shadow // Yaddo - December 09, 2021 15:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIt’s that time of year when many of us give some thought to our roots, our sense of home, where we belong. Travel is fraught, and the strain of the holiday season is real. Come share in a little insight and a few good laughs, with two of our favorite writers: poet and essayist Marianne Boruch, a...
A Grand Old Dream, with Andrea Elliot
Shadow // Yaddo - November 18, 2021 15:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSuccess. Fallacy of the one who escaped. The roots of racism and more, with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Andrea Elliott on her new book, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City, which offers an astonishing account of a homeless family in super-stratified New York City, w...
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