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Episode 31: Steve Lynn's Kingpin Career and More New York Minute Stories
Four about four New York minutes, with a pair about the drug business told by Cliff Michel and Steve Lynn, and a pair about gloom, glamor an…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 30: Mark Chiusano’s The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos
Mark Chiusano, author of "The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos," talks with Azi …
2 years, 6 months ago
Episode 29: Sean Howe’s Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s.
Sean Howe talks with Harry Siegel about his sprawling history of an American crack-up.
2 years, 8 months ago
Episode 28: Bill Griffith’s Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, The Man Who Created Nancy
Zippy creator Bill Griffith talks with Harry Siegel about his new graphic novel, "Three Rocks," about Ernie Bushmiller, the cartoonist who c…
2 years, 8 months ago
Episode 27: Stephen Yang Talking Pictures
Photographer Stephen Yang joins Alex Brook Lynn and Harry Siegel for a conversation about capturing private moments in public settings, the …
2 years, 9 months ago
Episode 26: Ben Smith’s Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral
Ben Smith talks with Azi Paybarah about Silicon Alley, the internet of the early 2000s, and why local politics is less scalable than it used…
2 years, 11 months ago
Episode 25: Paul Moses’ The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia
Years before the NYPD targeted Muslims, Black radicals and other groups with specialized and sometimes undercover operations, the Italian Sq…
2 years, 11 months ago
Episode 24: James Zollar Talking Jazz
Host Greg Glassman and fellow trumpeter James Zollar play together, and talk about what it takes to make it a musician in the Big Apple and …
3 years ago
Episode 23: Steven Thrasher’s Viruses on Film
Dr. Steven Thrasher — curator of the Viruses on Film series screening at BAM — talks about the experience of people coming together to watch…
3 years, 2 months ago
Episode 22: Gary Weiss’ Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie
Gary Weiss talks with Harry Siegel about his wild history of New York City's original retail gangster.
3 years, 3 months ago