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Feminine Chaos Is The Order of the Day: A Conversation with Kat Rosenfield and Phoebe Maltz Bovy
After two years on the Bloggingheads platform, journalists and cultural critics Kat Rosenfield and Phoebe Maltz Bovy are taking their popular podcast…
5 years, 8 months ago
I Don't Know What To Think Anymore: A Few Words From Your Host
In this very special edition of The Unspeakable Podcast, Meghan departs from the interview format and speaks directly to listeners. Reflecting on the…
5 years, 10 months ago
All Artists Are Starving Artists Now: William Deresiewicz on The Rigged Creative Economy
Bestselling author William Deresiewicz's new book, The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big…
5 years, 10 months ago
How Does Any Of Us Get Through? Sigrid Nunez on Living, Dying, Friendship and Solitude
Sigrid Nunez is the author of seven novels and a memoir. Sigrid's 2018 novel, The Friend, won The National Book Award for fiction and became a bestse…
5 years, 10 months ago
A Portrait of the Humorist as a Young Woman: Merrill Markoe on Drawing (Literally) from her Early Diaries
Merrill Markoe is an Emmy award winning television writer and celebrated humorist. She's worked on shows ranging from Sex and The City to Moonlightin…
5 years, 11 months ago
Everyone's a Podcaster Now! Josh Szeps on How to Talk, How To Listen, and When To Shut Up
Australian broadcaster Josh Szeps is known for his fiercely intelligent and at-times wickedly funny approach to interviews and news analysis. A found…
5 years, 11 months ago
Can Old-School Intellectualism Make a Comeback In A New Era? A conversation with Leon Wieseltier
Leon Wieseltier, who was for decades the literary editor of The New Republic, is a legendary cultural and media figure. But in 2017, just as he was s…
5 years, 11 months ago
Inspecting The Machinery of Identity Politics: A Conversation with Writer and Scholar Laurent Dubreuil
We hear about "identity" so often now that the word no longer carries much meaning. By extension, the term "identity politics" has become a culture w…
5 years, 11 months ago
Why Does Exposing Social Media Hypocrisy Feel So Damn Good? An Interview with Katie Herzog
Katie Herzog is a co-host, with Jesse Singal, of the new and wildly successful podcast, Blocked and Reported, which analyzes internet dramas and atte…
5 years, 11 months ago
How To Let Your Kids Live More Dangerously: A conversation with "America's Worst Mom," Lenore Skenazy
Journalist Lenore Skenazy was dubbed "America's Worst Mom" in 2008 for a column about letting her nine-year-old ride the subway alone. The controvers…
6 years ago