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

    2D AGO

    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
  2. John Strausbaugh’s Duchamp Takes New York

    MAR 29

    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
  3. Kenneth Cobb and Marcia Kirk’s Vital Records of Mr. George Rex, ‘The Last Slave’

    MAR 13

    Kenneth Cobb and Marcia Kirk’s Vital Records of Mr. George Rex, ‘The Last Slave’

    NYC Department of Records Associate Commissioner Kenneth Cobb and Research Associate Marcia Kirk visited Lit NYC to explain how the Municipal Archives came across the death ledger for the town of Newtown, Queens where George Rex, who froze to death in 1885 at the age of 89, had his occupation recorded as “The Last Slave,” what the Municipal Archives has found since then about his life, death and family history, and much more.

    46 min
  4. Andrew Lynch’s QueensLink

    MAR 7

    Andrew Lynch’s QueensLink

    Geographer, cartographer and urban explorer Andrew Lynch, the chief operating officer of QueensLink, joins Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to discuss the group’s vision to transform the borough for the better by extending the M train from Queens Boulevard to the Rockaways on a railway that’s abandoned for 60 years while surrounding that with new parks and trails, how he got involved in this crusade, and much more.

    40 min
  5. Joe Flaherty’s Managing Mailer

    FEB 27

    Joe Flaherty’s Managing Mailer

    Joe Flaherty was a dock worker and high school dropout on the wrong side of 30 when he found an unexpected writer’s life beginning as a columnist for the Village Voice. A couple years later, he was running the 51st State campaign of Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin as two of the city’s most famous writers made their bid to run it on a 51st State platform built around the idea of giving New Yorkers more control of their own neighborhoods and slogans including “No More B******t” and “The Other Guys Are The Joke.”  Joe’s son Liam sits down with Amy Sogn and Harry Siegel to talk about the very different Park Slope he grew up in, what his father accomplished in his short life before succumbing to prostate cancer at just 47 years old, what his dad would make of Mamdani’s new era, and much more.

    43 min
  6. Eric Goldwyn’s A Better Billion

    FEB 18

    Eric Goldwyn’s A Better Billion

    Eric Goldwyn, one of the authors of a new report from the Marron Institute of Urban Management at New York University with a modest proposal to remap the city with 12 new projects, 64 new subways stations and 41 new miles of rail talks with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel about that idea and much more.

    51 min
  7. Arthur Tress’ The Ramble: NYC 1969

    JAN 24

    Arthur Tress’ The Ramble: NYC 1969

    The self-described “ last Confederate widow,’ whose newly published photographs of gay men in Central Park’s Ramble in 1968 and 1969 are the earliest shots of outdoor cruising in a natural setting, joins Alex Krales and Harry Siegel to discuss his work in a New York City where homosexuality was still both a taboo and a crime, and much more.

    47 min
  8. St. John Frizell’s Gage & Tollner

    JAN 9

    St. John Frizell’s Gage & Tollner

    An iconic restaurant in Fulton Mall became an Arby's, before it was revived amid the pandemic. St. John Frizell, one of the stewards of Gage and Tollner joins Lit NYC hosts Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to talk about the craft of the cocktail, the business of Brooklyn, the nature of the great good place, and much more.

    51 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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  • Creator
    Harry Siegel
  • Episodes
    66
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Lit NYC
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