Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSuzanne Reisman´s Garbage and Rats Walking Tour
Season 2 Episode 71
"It’s a tour for people who like the nitty gritty of why we had so much sewage, why corruption led to the garbage being a problem for so long, what o…
3 hours ago
John Strausbaugh's New York Press
Season 2 Episode 70
John Strausbaugh, the longtime editor of fNew York Press, joins Amy Sohn — who kicked off her career there as a 22-year-old columnist there — and gue…
6 days, 4 hours ago
Alan Mikhail´s Newcomers: The Story of Anthony and Grietje and the Founding of New York
Season 2 Episode 69
Anthony Janszoon van Salee and his wife Geitje were always feuding with neighbors and authorities, who put them down as the Turk and a whore and who …
2 weeks ago
Philip T. Yanos´ `Exiles in New York City: Warehousing the Marginalized on Ward's Island´
Season 2 Episode 68
Clinical psychologist Philip T. Yanos, the author of "Exiles in New York City: Warehousing the Marginalized on Ward's Island," talks about host Amy S…
3 weeks ago
Sade Lythcott´s National Black Theatre
Season 2 Episode 67
Sade Lythcott, the CEO of the National Black Theatre, the longest continually run black theater in New York, visits Lit NYC to talk with hosts Amy So…
4 weeks ago
Molly Crabapple’s Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
Season 2 Episode 66
Writer, journalist, artist and illustrator sits down with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to discuss her sweeping new history of the Jewish Labor Bund, her…
1 month ago
John Strausbaugh’s Duchamp Takes New York
Season 2 Episode 65
An epic art show at the Lexington Avenue Armory made a young Marcel Duchamp, who was back in France, one of America’s first modern celebrities even b…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Kenneth Cobb and Marcia Kirk’s Vital Records of Mr. George Rex, ‘The Last Slave’
Season 2 Episode 64
NYC Department of Records Associate Commissioner Kenneth Cobb and Research Associate Marcia Kirk visited Lit NYC to explain how the Municipal Archive…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Andrew Lynch’s QueensLink
Season 2 Episode 63
Geographer, cartographer and urban explorer Andrew Lynch, the chief operating officer of QueensLink, joins Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to discuss the g…
3 months ago
Joe Flaherty’s Managing Mailer
Season 2 Episode 62
Joe Flaherty was a dock worker and high school dropout on the wrong side of 30 when he found an unexpected writer’s life beginning as a columnist for…
3 months, 2 weeks ago