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Episode 24: Larry David, Amy Poehler, and Randy Newman
Episode 24
This week, three highlights from The New Yorker Festival: Larry David explains why he envies his sociopathic alter ego on “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” Amy…
9 years, 9 months ago
Episode 23: The Birth of Instagram, and Tunisia’s Jihadis
Episode 23
This week: Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger talks about how Instagram took over the world; the New Yorker’s cartoon editor, Bob Mankoff, shares his …
9 years, 9 months ago
Episode 22: Nate Silver on Trump Versus Cruz, and Roz Chast’s Horses
Episode 22
This week: Three great political minds talk to David Remnick about the 2016 election, Roz Chast is visited by a young cartoonist who is following in …
9 years, 9 months ago
Episode 21: Julia Louis-Dreyfus on the Presidential Race, and Malcolm Gladwell on School Shootings
Episode 21
This week: Julia Louis-Dreyfus says that, in light of the 2016 Presidential race, “Veep” is now like a “sombre” documentary; Malcolm Gladwell looks a…
9 years, 10 months ago
Episode 20: G.P.S. for Drunks, and Coming Home to Serbia
Episode 20
This week: A Manhattan bartender, prizefighter, and onetime bank robber returns to his ancestral mansion in Serbia; Michael Friedman brings us a new …
9 years, 10 months ago
Episode 19: Father Pfleger, Larry David, and the History of Autism
Episode 19
This week, Father Michael Pfleger, a white priest on Chicago’s South Side, holds a funeral for a young man who threatened his life; Larry David appli…
9 years, 10 months ago
Episode 18: Maria Bamford, and Fighting for Baltimore
Episode 18
This week, two stories out of Baltimore: “The Wire” creator David Simon drives the city with Jelani Cobb, and David Remnick talks to the thirty-year-…
9 years, 10 months ago
Episode 17: Cuba Gooding, Jr., on O. J. Simpson, and Embracing Insomnia
Episode 17
This week, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Jeffrey Toobin revisit the O.J. Simpson trial, a songwriter hits the campaign trail, and the lifelong night owl Pat…
9 years, 11 months ago
Episode 16: Laura Poitras, David Bowie’s Last Band, and the Poet Brenda Shaughnessy
Episode 16
The Oscar-winning documentarian Laura Poitras (“Citizenfour”) talks to David Remnick about her first solo museum exhibition, “Astro Noise,” which cha…
9 years, 11 months ago
Episode 15: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Marc Maron, and the Broads of 'Broad City'
Episode 15
This week, stars of the stage, screen, and earbuds. Marc Maron tells Kelefa Sanneh why talking into a mic saved his life. The magazine’s TV critic, E…
9 years, 11 months ago