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Hosts Amy Sohn, Harry Siegel and others sit down each week to commune with artists, writers, critics, cranks, visionaries and loons and how their work, and their lives, relate to the past, present and future of New York. The podcast is a project of The City, a nonprofit newsroom serving the people of New York.

  1. 8 uur geleden

    Kim Deitch's How I Make Comics

    Kim Deitch, a second-generation illustrator, has been at it since he start selling strips (and dope) to The East Village Other in 1967. His new book, How I Make Comics, is full of interlocking comics connected by comics about making comics, with Kim and his wife Pamela Butler as characters in those comics as what started off as a gag title became something much more — beginning with a too-good-to-check yarn about Kim's boyhood encounter with Donald Trump on the Howdy Doody Show and with fiction and truth only getting stranger from there.  Harry Siegel visited Kim and Pam in their studio on the Upper East Side for an in-depth conversation about the book, their partnership, his turn toward the autobiographical and the importance of a good yarn.

    43 min.

  2. 12 jun

    Suzanne Reisman´s Garbage and Rats Walking Tour

    "It’s a tour for people who like the nitty gritty of why we had so much sewage, why corruption led to the garbage being a problem for so long, what our policies were that caused this rat issue. It's an urban policy and urban planning tour with rats and some sex facts, including rat sex." Suzanne Reisman, author of Off the Beaten (Subway) Track, New York City's Best Unusual Attractions, joins host Amy Sohn to discuss her Garbage and Rats in New York walking tour, visiting an art star’s troll museum, and much more, including Eric Adams’ rat-eradication legacy.

    37 min.

  3. 6 jun

    John Strausbaugh's New York Press

    John Strausbaugh, the longtime editor of fNew York Press, joins Amy Sohn — who kicked off her career there as a 22-year-old columnist there — and guest host Brian Berger of Strauss Media for a deep dive into the late, great and occasionally lamented alt-weekly that humbled the then-mighty Village Voice and launched a generation of new writers.

    35 min.

  4. 29 mei

    Alan Mikhail´s Newcomers: The Story of Anthony and Grietje and the Founding of New York

    Anthony Janszoon van Salee and his wife Geitje were always feuding with neighbors and authorities, who put them down as the Turk and a whore and who kept putting them on trial before they were finally exiled from Manhattan — only to become the biggest landowners in what’s now Brooklyn, with descendants who married into American royalty.  Alan Mikhail, the author of Newcomers: The Story of Anthony and Grietje and the Founding of New York, joins Harry Siegel and guest host Asad Dandia — the new Brooklyn historian and an informal Mamdani advisor who gives a walking tour or Lower Manhattan’s old Little Syria that includes a capsule history of van Salee — for a lively conversation about the contested story of a man who came to be known, a century after his death, as the city”s first free Muslim.

    59 min.

  5. 22 mei

    Philip T. Yanos´ `Exiles in New York City: Warehousing the Marginalized on Ward's Island´

    Clinical psychologist Philip T. Yanos, the author of "Exiles in New York City: Warehousing the Marginalized on Ward's Island," talks about host Amy Sohn about growing up in a place a stone’s throw from Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx that’s been used over decades to house the mentally ill, the homeless and migrants — and that’s now connected through landfill with the sports fields of Randall's Island.

    48 min.

  6. 15 mei

    Sade Lythcott´s National Black Theatre

    Sade Lythcott, the CEO of the National Black Theatre, the longest continually run black theater in New York, visits Lit NYC to talk with hosts Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel about the theater her mother, Dr. Barbara Ann Teer, founded in 1968, how she found her way back to it after charting a different path in life, the new building the theater is putting up now to ensure its future and much more:

    35 min.
  7. Molly Crabapple’s Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund

    7 mei

    Molly Crabapple’s Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund

    Writer, journalist, artist and illustrator sits down with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to discuss her sweeping new history of the Jewish Labor Bund, her family connection to it and much more in a conversation that ranges all the way from the Pale of Settlement all the way to Occupy Wall Street and beyond.

    55 min.
  8. John Strausbaugh’s Duchamp Takes New York

    29 mrt

    John Strausbaugh’s Duchamp Takes New York

    An epic art show at the Lexington Avenue Armory made a young Marcel Duchamp, who was back in France, one of America’s first modern celebrities even before he first arrived in New York City for what became decades of painting, conceiving, chess-playing and love-making — though not always in that order. John Strausbaugh, the author of Duchamp Takes New York, joins Amy Sohn and Brian Berger for a wide-ranging discussion of the artist’s life in the Big Apple’s old San Juan Hill and all around Manhattan.

    41 min.
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Hosts Amy Sohn, Harry Siegel and others sit down each week to commune with artists, writers, critics, cranks, visionaries and loons and how their work, and their lives, relate to the past, present and future of New York. The podcast is a project of The City, a nonprofit newsroom serving the people of New York.

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