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Lapham's Quarterly: the Podcast
by Lapham's Quarterly
Interviews and readings sprung from the pages of Lapham's Quarterly. Served up biweekly by LQ editor Lewis H. Lapham.
Episodes
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Episode #63: Tom Rachman
Author of The Imperfectionists tells Aidan Flax-Clark about his latest novel, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers.
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Episode #62: Robert Weide
Curb Your Enthusiasm producer and comedy documentarian Bob Weide has worked on a Kurt Vonnegut doc for the last three decades. Weide recounts what he's learned in that time about Vonnegut as a man, a writer, and a humorist.
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Episode #61: Soviets & Spies
How did the British assist in the murder of Rasputin, infiltrate the heights of Bolshevik power, and work in the shadows to halt the spread of global revolution? The early days of professional espionage, with Giles Milton, author of Russian Roulette.
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Episode #60: Orlando Figes
In 1921, with the Russian revolution falling short of its ideals, Vladimir Lenin introduced the New Economic Policy. A brief flourishing of economic and personal liberties ensued. But was it a betrayal of Bolshevik ideals? Historian Orlando Figes explains.
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Episode #59.5: Cadaver Catastrophe
BONUS! Simon Winchester recounts his strange job cutting open cadavers in a London mortuary in the early 1960s. Warning: Not for anyone easily grossed out.
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Episode #59: Cesar Chavez
As the new biopic Cesar Chavez hits theaters, writer Miriam Pawel has published her new biography on the labor leader, seeking to present a more complete, honest account of Chavez's life than the standard hagiography allows.
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Episode #58: Greg Grandin
The true story of the 1805 slave revolt behind Herman Melville's novella Benito Cereno is the subject of Fordlandia author Greg Grandin's latest book, Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World.
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Episode #57: Daniil Kharms
Plummeting old women, false mustaches, subversive children's poetry, and sexual obsession. Exploring the life and work of early Russian surrealist Daniil Kharms with translators Anthony Anemone and Peter Scotto.
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Episode #56: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin speaks with Lewis Lapham about her latest book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism.
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Episode #55: Gillian Jacobs
Dirty French stories and poetry, plus the complaints of a medieval Japanese courtier, from our Comedy issue, as read by Community star Gillian Jacobs.
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Episode #54: Dick Cavett
Cavett and our very own Lewis Lapham talk about comedy history, lessons learned from Mark Twain and Groucho Marx, and that time they both tried out for the same play at Yale.
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Episode #53: Richard Pryor
A new Richard Pryor biography, Furious Cool, by Joe and David Henry, tells the story of Pryor's comedy and the mythic, tortured, tragic life behind it.
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Episode #52: The Blood Telegram
How did the U.S. find itself involved in the 1971 genocide against the people of East Pakistan? Gary Bass tells the story, which he chronicled in his book The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide.
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Episode #51: Edgar Allan Poe's Terror of the Soul
The Morgan Library's exhibit Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul chronicles the author's life and influence through manuscripts, letters, publications, and artwork. Aidan Flax-Clark discusses the misunderstood writer's biography with the show's curators, Declan Kiely and Isaac Gewirtz.
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Episode #50: John Hodgman
The comedian and deranged millionaire himself comes on the podcast to read terrifying tales of live burial, mysterious suicide, and decadent tomb-building, all from our current issue, Death.
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Episode #30: Fooling Houdini w/ Alex Stone
Navigate the strange and fascinating intersections of magic, con artistry, and science with author Alex Stone as he discusses his new book, Fooling Houdini.
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Episode #31: China Mieville
The weird-fiction wizard talks to Aidan Flax-Clark about craft, genre writing, and the supernatural's power over his books.
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Episode #32: Kevin Bleyer
Daily Show writer Kevin Bleyer set out to rewrite the Constitution. Of the United States. And he wrote a hilarious book about it called Me the People. He talks to LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark about the hows and whys of his quixotic undertaking.
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Episode #33: Jeffrey Gettleman
Gettleman, the East Africa bureau chief for the New York Times looks back with LQ editor Elias Altman to the 2007 Kenya presidential election and what it bodes for its next election in 2013.
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Episode #34: H. W. Brands
Historian H. W. Brands talks to LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark about the life and career of Ulysses Grant, the subject of his essay for LQ's "Politics" issue and of his new book, The Man Who Saved the Union.
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Episode #35: Anne Hathaway, Oliver Platt, Maude Maggart, and More
Check out some of our favorite performances from some of LQ's best 2012 parties, with songs and readings from Anne Hathaway, Oliver Platt, Colin Donnell, Ari Graynor, and more.
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Episode #36: Athanasius Kircher/John Glassie
Uncover the strange life and works of 17th-century scientist/nutball Athanasius Kircher with John Glassie, author of "A Man of Misconceptions."
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Episode #37: Emily Anthes
Mutant mice! Cloned kittens! Cyborg beetles! Frankenstein's Cat author Emily Anthes explains how the field of biotechnology is remaking the animal kingdom and what it means for our world.
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Episode #43: Reza Aslan
Religious scholar and historian Reza Aslan gets a chance to actually talk about his new book, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.
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Episode #45: Simon Winchester
LQ favorite Simon Winchester has wandered "ceaselessly about on the world's oceans...in all weathers and seasons and climates." He tells some of his favorite tales from a life at sea.
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Episode #44: Monsters of the Deep
Strange sea creatures haunted the margins of all kinds of maps between the 8th and 16th centuries. Chet van Duzer tells their stories and talks about his new book, Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps.
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Episode #40: Crack in the World Found at Sea!
So said the New York Times headline when geologist Marie Tharp discovered the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which proved the theory of continental drift. Author Hali Felt chronicled Tharp's life in her book, Soundings.
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Interviews and readings sprung from the pages of Lapham's Quarterly. Served up biweekly by LQ editor Lewis H. Lapham.
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