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Back to SearchNostalgia Trap - Episode 32: Will Menaker
Will Menaker is an editor at Liveright Publishing, who recently put out Jacob Bacharach's debut novel, The Bend of the World. I've known Will since g…
11 years, 4 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 31: CUNY Students and Climate Change
Although the popular stereotype of "kids these days" has them staring apathetically at their phones, more concerned with selfies than politics, my ex…
11 years, 4 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 30: Claudia Moreno Parsons
Claudia Moreno Parsons is a professor of English at LaGuardia Community College, and also the wife of your humble host. Since I've spoken to so many …
11 years, 4 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 29: Josh Mason
Currently a professor in the Economics department at John Jay College in New York City, Josh Mason is one of only a few economists that I know in rea…
11 years, 4 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 28: Neil Meyer
I've known English professor Neil Meyer for many years, since our time spent concurrently at the CUNY Graduate Center, which spanned more or less the…
11 years, 5 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 27: Jayashree Kamble
My conversation with Jayashree Kamble, a writer and English professor at LaGuardia Community College, was an opportunity to talk about popular cultur…
11 years, 5 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 26: Sarah Jaffe
Sarah Jaffe is a freelance writer and journalist whose work appears in The Guardian, In These Times, Salon, and Dissent Magazine, where she co-hosts …
11 years, 5 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 25: Steve Brier
Steve Brier is a historian whose work at the American Social History Project helped draw me into the field of working class social history. Steve als…
11 years, 5 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 24: Sarah Leonard
Sarah Leonard is an exciting voice in left journalism, currently working as a writer and editor for The Nation, New Inquiry, and Dissent. She writes …
11 years, 6 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 23: Frances Fox Piven
Frances Fox Piven is a towering figure of the American Left, a professor of political science whose combined academic work and political activism pro…
11 years, 6 months ago