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Rock 'N' Roll Resurrection
Episode 8
In the eighth episode of Soundscapes NYC, host Ryan Purcell talks with music history professor Steve Waksman about the social and stylistic transform…
1 year, 3 months ago
Natalie Lim, "Elegy for Opportunity" (Buckrider Books, 2025)
Episode 1406
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Vancouver poet Natalie Lim about her debut poetry collection, Elegy for Opportunity (Wolsak & Wy…
1 year, 3 months ago
Love Saves the Day: On the 1970s New York Club Scene
Episode 1405
The Loft was a dance party series organized by DJ David Mancuso in his Manhattan warehouse apartment at 647 Broadway from Valentine’s Day 1970 to Jun…
1 year, 4 months ago
Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, "The Ghost Lab: How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts Are Wrecking Science" (PublicAffairs, 2025)
Episode 1404
In this episode, New Books Network host Nina Bo Wagner talks to Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling about his recently published book The Ghost Lab: How Bigfoot…
1 year, 4 months ago
Elana Levine, "Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History" (Duke UP, 2020)
Episode 217
Since the debut of These Are My Children in 1949, the daytime television soap opera has been foundational to the history of the medium as an economic…
1 year, 4 months ago
Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ
Episode 7
Bruce Springsteen was keenly aware and excited by the sounds of the CBGBs scene during the Seventies. With his own bands, the Boss performed in the s…
1 year, 4 months ago
Tom Lutz, "1925: A Literary Encyclopedia" (Rare Bird Books, 2025)
Episode 1400
The year 1925 was arguably the peak of literature's centrality. There were more magazines, more journals, more reviews, more book news, and more book…
1 year, 4 months ago
Illustrating Punk
Episode 6
In the sixth episode of Soundscapes NYC, host Ryan Purcell talks with John Holmstrom a comic illustrator and founder of Punk magazine. In the early 1…
1 year, 4 months ago
Barry W. Enderwick, "Sandwiches of History: The Cookbook: All the Best (and Most Surprising) Things People Have Put Between Slices of Bread" (Harvard Common Press, 2024)
Episode 1398
Barry Enderwick has been making, eating, and sharing historical sandwiches for years on social media @sandwichesofhistory and recently in live shows.…
1 year, 4 months ago
A Queer Etymology of Punk
Episode 5
In the fifth episode of Soundscapes N.Y.C., host Ryan Purcell talks with British music critic Jon Savage about how LGBTQ resistance shaped American p…
1 year, 4 months ago