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ESOPUS
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ESOPUS (2003–2025) was an annual arts publication featuring multidisciplinary content presented in a striking visual format with minimal editorial framing and no advertising. Each issue included contemporary artists' projects, materials from the Museum of Modern Art archives reproduced in facsimile, fiction, poetry, works on film, visual essays, and a themed audio CD featuring brand-new songs from a range of musical acts. The Esopus Foundation, the nonprofit organization which published ESOPUS, underwent legal dissolution in Spring 2025. This site is a digital archive.
Episodes
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Publishing and the Popular Consumption of Print: A Panel Discussion
For this panel discussion at the 50th Annual Rare Books and Manuscripts Conference (a division of the American Library Association) convention in Charlottesville, Virginia, ESOPUS editor Tod Lippy was asked to join McSweeney's publisher Eli Horowitz and moderator Susan Allen to talk about the ins...
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“Why the Long Face?” by Peter Silberman
For this atmospheric instrumental track created for the ESOPUS 25 "Jokes" CD (included in ESOPUS 25, the nonprofit arts publication now in bookstores) The Antlers frontman Peter Silberman took his inspiration from an old classic: A horse walks into a bar, and the bartender asks, "Why the long...
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"Cosmic Joke" by Alicia Walter
The second sneak preview from the ESOPUS 25 "JOKES" CD -- included in ESOPUS 25, which is just hitting bookstores -- is a fantastic art-pop track by Alicia Walter, who chose this humorous poem by philosopher Alan Watts as its inspiration: There once was a man who said, “Though it seems that I…
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"Why Did the Man Talk to a Horse Off in the Bar?" by Lonnie Holley [PREVIEW]
For its latest audio compilation, ESOPUS invited 11 musical acts -- including Peter Silberman, Joseph Keckler, and Katie Von Scheicher -- to create new songs inspired by a joke of their choice. The CD will appear in ESOPUS 25, which is just now hitting bookstores. The iconic comical query “Why…
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Lisa Kudrow Discusses "The Comeback" with Tod Lippy (Museum of the Moving Image, 2/23/11)
ESOPUS inaugurated a collaborative series with the newly renovated Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, with a screening and in-person appearance by actress Lisa Kudrow and her producing partner Dan Bucatinsky. In 2005, Kudrow and Michael Patrick King co-created "The Comeback," a...
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Karl Ove Knausgaard in Conversation with Tod Lippy (BookCourt, 5/21/16)
In front of a packed house at Brooklyn’s BookCourt, the celebrated Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard (My Struggle) spoke with ESOPUS editor Tod Lippy about “On the Value of LIterature,” his 5,000-word essay that appears in ESOPUS 23. Knausgaard also took questions from the audience about his...
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Hampton Fancher Reads William Carlos Williams (The Kitchen, 5/26/16)
On May 26, 2015, ESOPUS presented an evening of programming at NYC's The Kitchen related to ESOPUS 22: MEDICINE, the nonprofit's 2015 issue devoted to the intersections between medicine and the arts. Among the event's participants was screenwriter Hampton Fancher ("Blade Runner") who read a 1942...
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The Wrens, "The House that Guilt Built [Live]" (The Kitchen, 10/24/06)
On October 24, 2006, The Wrens' Charles Bissell and Kevin Whelan participated in "An Evening with ESOPUS" at NYC performance space The Kitchen. Among the tracks they performed was this version of "The House that Guilt Built" (from their acclaimed LP "The Meadowlands") for which they called upon...
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Stephen Adly Guirgis reads “Dear Sissy” (MoMA/PS1, 5/11/06)
Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis wrote a series of three monologues for ESOPUS which were published in our second, third, and fifth issues. Guirgis read the third monologue for an ESOPUS event at MoMA/PS1 on May 11, 2006. Learn more at https://bit.ly/2vs9kpl
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ESOPUS 24: CREATIVITY AND BOUNDARIES (PODCAST)
Much of the content in the 24th issue of the nonprofit arts annual ESOPUS concerns itself with boundaries—between countries, cultures, languages, genders, and more—and in many cases, with using creativity as a way to breach them. This podcast features editor Tod Lippy's interviews with four...
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ESOPUS 23 "CLOSE CALLS" CD PREVIEW (PODCAST)
Each issue of ESOPUS features an audio CD with brand-new music inspired by a particular theme. For the forthcoming ESOPUS 23 (on newsstands in May), the CD explores the subject of "Close Calls." For it, we invited 13 musical acts to pick a close-call moment from their lives — ranging from...
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ESOPUS FALL 2015 EDITION PREVIEW (PODCAST)
Each fall, ESOPUS creates a limited-edition artwork for its Premium subscribers. This fall's edition, "Three Types of Reading Ambiguity," is a multidisciplinary collaboration between musician Charles Bissell and contemporary artist Beth Campbell. A layered reflection on the differing meanings of...
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ESOPUS 22 PREVIEW (PODCAST)
This podcast offers a preview of the forthcoming issue of ESOPUS, the nonprofit arts publication based in New York City. It includes three interviews with contributors to ESOPUS 22: MEDICINE: Thomas Juncher Jensen, an interior designer who has designed "the perfect waiting room" based on our...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
ESOPUS (2003–2025) was an annual arts publication featuring multidisciplinary content presented in a striking visual format with minimal editorial framing and no advertising. Each issue included contemporary artists' projects, materials from the Museum of Modern Art archives reproduced in facsimile, fiction, poetry, works on film, visual essays, and a themed audio CD featuring brand-new songs from a range of musical acts. The Esopus Foundation, the nonprofit organization which published ESOPUS, underwent legal dissolution in Spring 2025. This site is a digital archive.
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