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Lit NYC — 71 episodes

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Suzanne Reisman´s Garbage and Rats Walking Tour

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John Strausbaugh's New York Press

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

4

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

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Sade Lythcott´s National Black Theatre

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

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John Strausbaugh’s Duchamp Takes New York

8

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

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Andrew Lynch’s QueensLink

10

Joe Flaherty’s Managing Mailer

11

Eric Goldwyn’s A Better Billion

12

Arthur Tress’ The Ramble: NYC 1969

13

St. John Frizell’s Gage & Tollner

14

William H. Whyte’s The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

15

Henry H. Sapoznik’s The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City

16

Baruch Herzfeld’s Brilliant Battery Brain

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Michael Rohatyn and Peter Yost’ Drop Dead City

18

Ben Fractenberg’s In Tension

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Drew Friedman’s Schtick Figures: The Cool, the Comical, the Crazy

20

Jonathan Mahler’s The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990.

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Laurie Gwen Shapiro’s The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made an American Icon

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Episode 50: Stanley Greenberg’s Waterworks: The Hidden Water System of New York

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Episode 49: J. Hoberman’s Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop

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Episode 48: Jay and Eli Neugeboren’s Whatever Happened to Frankie King

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Episode 47: Elon Green’s The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York

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Episode 46: Jonathan Lethem’s Brooklyn Crime Novel

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Episode 45: Amy Sohn’s The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age

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Episode 44: Joel Kokin’s Urban Supremacy Suspicions

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Episode 43: Ross Perlin’s Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York

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Episode 42: Jill Gill’s Site Lines: Lost New York 1954-2002

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Episode 41: Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies: The Collected Conceits, Delusions, and Hijinks of New Yorkers from 1974 to 1995

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Episode 40: Julie Satow's When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion

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Episode 39: Talking Pictures in Harvey Wang’s New York

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Episode 38: Steve Fishman’s The Burden

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Episode 37: Lucy Sante’s I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

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Episode 35: Kai Wright and Lizzie Ratner’s The Plague in the Shadows

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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

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Episode 34: Jake Berman’s The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been

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Episode 33: Ellen Moynihan’s Recovered Cat and More New York Stories

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Episode 32: J.T. Price’s Courteous Robber and More New York Stories

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Episode 31: Steve Lynn's Kingpin Career and More New York Minute Stories

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Episode 30: Mark Chiusano’s The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos

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Episode 29: Sean Howe’s Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s.

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Episode 28: Bill Griffith’s Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller, The Man Who Created Nancy

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Episode 27: Stephen Yang Talking Pictures

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Episode 26: Ben Smith’s Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral

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Episode 25: Paul Moses’ The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia

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Episode 24: James Zollar Talking Jazz

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Episode 23: Steven Thrasher’s Viruses on Film

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Episode 22: Gary Weiss’ Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

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Episode 21: Rusty Zimmerman’s Free Portrait Project

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Episode 20: Stacy Dillard Talking Jazz

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Episode 19: Annemarie Gray’s Open New York

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Episode 18: Susan Watts Talking Pictures Again

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Episode 17: Michael Kimmelman’s The Intimate City: Walking New York

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Episode 16: Pervaiz Shallwani’s Stinky Lunch Kids

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Episode 15: Jereemiah Moss’ Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York

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Episode 14: Ann Nocenti’s Daredevil Years as ‘The Girl Behind the Fishtank’

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Episode 13: Manny Kirchheimer’s New York, and His Pandemic Time Warp

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Episode 12: Andrew Kirtzman's Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America's Mayor

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Episode 11: Twenty-one Eulogies for New York City

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Episode 10: Issa Ibrahim’s Eulogy for Jamaica

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Episode 9: Talking Pictures With David Godlis and Luc Sante

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Episode 8: Charles Farrell’s (Low)Life: A Memoir of Jazz, Fight-Fixing, and the Mob

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Episode 7: Elon Green’s Lost Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

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Episode 6: Alec MadGilllis' Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America

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Episode 5: Dave Manheim’s Dopey

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Episode 4: Talking Pictures with Susan Watts

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Episode 3: Julie Satow’s The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel

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Episode 2: Mark Alan Stamaty's MacDoodle Street

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Episode 1: John Strausbaugh's Victory City and Ron Howell's Boss of Black Brooklyn