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Episode 41: Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies: The Collected Conceits, Delusions, and Hijinks of New Yorkers from 1974 to 1995
Stank Mack talks with Alyssa Katz about his two decades listening to New Yorkers and documenting their sayings and subcultures in cartoon fo…
1 year, 11 months ago
Episode 40: Julie Satow's When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
Julie Satow talks with Sarah Shears about the women behind the business of fashion.
2 years ago
Episode 39: Talking Pictures in Harvey Wang’s New York
The book’s namesake talks with host Harry Siegel about chornicling the hold-outs in trades and businesses that were vanishing in the 1980s a…
2 years ago
Episode 38: Steve Fishman’s The Burden
Steve Fishman talks with Harry Siegel about his his new podcast, The Burden, where he speaks with and digs into the history of former NYPD s…
2 years, 1 month ago
Episode 37: Lucy Sante’s I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
The writer returns to the pod for an depth-conversation with Alex Brook Lynn and Harry Siegel about her new memoir, and her gender transitio…
2 years, 2 months ago
Episode 35: Kai Wright and Lizzie Ratner’s The Plague in the Shadows
Journalists Kai Wright and Lizzy Ratner talk with The City editor-in-chief Richard Kim about their Blindspot podcast digging into the early …
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 36: Tricia Romano’s The Freaks Come Out To Write: The Definitive History of The Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture
Tricia Romano talks with Alyssa Katz about the pre-internet world where the Village Voice was a newspaper like no other: a haven for writers…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 34: Jake Berman’s The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been
Author and cartographer Jake Berman talks with Alyssa Katz about how the great and not-so-great mass transit systems of the U.S. and Canada…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 33: Ellen Moynihan’s Recovered Cat and More New York Stories
In the third and final installment of the pod's year-end mini-series of stories about a "New York minute," you'll hear from Michael Gartland…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 32: J.T. Price’s Courteous Robber and More New York Stories
In the second of three year-end episodes featuring stories about "a New York minute," natives Katie Honan and David Ray Martinez talk soap o…
2 years, 5 months ago