Podcast Episodes

The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone

Episode 417

For the next few months, we’re sharing some of our favorite conversations from the podcast’s archives. This week’s segments first appeared in 2017 an…

3 years, 11 months ago

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Andrew Sean Greer on Writing ‘Less’

Episode 416

For the next few months, we’re sharing some of our favorite conversations from the podcast’s archives. This week’s segments first appeared in 2017 an…

3 years, 11 months ago

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Jennifer Egan and the Goon Squad

Episode 415

For the next few months, we’re sharing some of our favorite conversations from the podcast’s archives. This week’s segments first appeared in 2010 an…

3 years, 11 months ago

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David Sedaris’s Diaries

Episode 414

For the next few months, we’re sharing some of our favorite conversations from the podcast’s archives. This one was originally published on June 2, 2…

4 years ago

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John Lithgow on “Drama” and Maggie O'Farrell on “Hamnet”

Episode 413

For the next few months, we’re sharing some of our favorite conversations from the podcast’s archives. This week’s segments first appeared in 2011 an…

4 years ago

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Robert Caro on His Career

Episode 412

For the next few months, we're sharing some of our favorite conversations from the podcast's archives. This one was originally published on April 19,…

4 years ago

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Roaring Through Paris With ‘Kiki Man Ray’

Episode 411

Mark Braude’s new biography, “Kiki Man Ray,” visits a place of perennial interest — Left Bank Paris in the 1920s — through the life of the singer, mo…

4 years ago

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Poems in Practice and in Theory

Episode 410

Elisa Gabbert, the Book Review's On Poetry columnist, visits the podcast this week to discuss writing about poetry and her own forthcoming collection…

4 years ago

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Chaos Among Spies After the Berlin Wall Crumbles

Episode 409

Dan Fesperman’s 13th thriller, “Winter Work,” is set just after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Stasi, East Germany’s brutal Cold War intelligence s…

4 years, 1 month ago

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Diana Goetsch on ‘This Body I Wore’

Episode 408

The acclaimed poet Diana Goetsch has now published “This Body I Wore,” which our reviewer, Manuel Betancourt, called an “achingly beautiful memoir” a…

4 years, 1 month ago

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