All Episodes
Lit NYC — 66 episodes
Molly Crabapple’s Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
John Strausbaugh’s Duchamp Takes New York
Kenneth Cobb and Marcia Kirk’s Vital Records of Mr. George Rex, ‘The Last Slave’
Andrew Lynch’s QueensLink
Joe Flaherty’s Managing Mailer
Eric Goldwyn’s A Better Billion
Arthur Tress’ The Ramble: NYC 1969
St. John Frizell’s Gage & Tollner
William H. Whyte’s The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
Henry H. Sapoznik’s The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City
Baruch Herzfeld’s Brilliant Battery Brain
Michael Rohatyn and Peter Yost’ Drop Dead City
Ben Fractenberg’s In Tension
Drew Friedman’s Schtick Figures: The Cool, the Comical, the Crazy
Jonathan Mahler’s The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990.
Laurie Gwen Shapiro’s The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made an American Icon
Episode 50: Stanley Greenberg’s Waterworks: The Hidden Water System of New York
Episode 49: J. Hoberman’s Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop
Episode 48: Jay and Eli Neugeboren’s Whatever Happened to Frankie King
Episode 47: Elon Green’s The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York
Episode 46: Jonathan Lethem’s Brooklyn Crime Novel
Episode 45: Amy Sohn’s The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age
Episode 44: Joel Kokin’s Urban Supremacy Suspicions
Episode 43: Ross Perlin’s Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
Episode 42: Jill Gill’s Site Lines: Lost New York 1954-2002
Episode 41: Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies: The Collected Conceits, Delusions, and Hijinks of New Yorkers from 1974 to 1995
Episode 40: Julie Satow's When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
Episode 39: Talking Pictures in Harvey Wang’s New York
Episode 38: Steve Fishman’s The Burden
Episode 37: Lucy Sante’s I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
Episode 35: Kai Wright and Lizzie Ratner’s The Plague in the Shadows
Episode 36: Tricia Romano’s The Freaks Come Out To Write: The Definitive History of The Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture
Episode 34: Jake Berman’s The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been
Episode 33: Ellen Moynihan’s Recovered Cat and More New York Stories
Episode 32: J.T. Price’s Courteous Robber and More New York Stories
Episode 31: Steve Lynn's Kingpin Career and More New York Minute Stories
Episode 30: Mark Chiusano’s The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos
Episode 29: Sean Howe’s Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s.
Episode 28: Bill Griffith’s Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, The Man Who Created Nancy
Episode 27: Stephen Yang Talking Pictures
Episode 26: Ben Smith’s Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral
Episode 25: Paul Moses’ The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia
Episode 24: James Zollar Talking Jazz
Episode 23: Steven Thrasher’s Viruses on Film
Episode 22: Gary Weiss’ Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie
Episode 21: Rusty Zimmerman’s Free Portrait Project
Episode 20: Stacy Dillard Talking Jazz
Episode 19: Annemarie Gray’s Open New York
Episode 18: Susan Watts Talking Pictures Again
Episode 17: Michael Kimmelman’s The Intimate City: Walking New York
Episode 16: Pervaiz Shallwani’s Stinky Lunch Kids
Episode 15: Jereemiah Moss’ Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
Episode 14: Ann Nocenti’s Daredevil Years as ‘The Girl Behind the Fishtank’
Episode 13: Manny Kirchheimer’s New York, and His Pandemic Time Warp
Episode 12: Andrew Kirtzman's Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America's Mayor
Episode 11: Twenty-one Eulogies for New York City
Episode 10: Issa Ibrahim’s Eulogy for Jamaica
Episode 9: Talking Pictures With David Godlis and Luc Sante
Episode 8: Charles Farrell’s (Low)Life: A Memoir of Jazz, Fight-Fixing, and the Mob
Episode 7: Elon Green’s Lost Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York
Episode 6: Alec MadGilllis' Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
Episode 5: Dave Manheim’s Dopey
Episode 4: Talking Pictures with Susan Watts
Episode 3: Julie Satow’s The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel
Episode 2: Mark Alan Stamaty's MacDoodle Street
Episode 1: John Strausbaugh's Victory City and Ron Howell's Boss of Black Brooklyn