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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 an... more
FAQs about Lit NYC:How many episodes does Lit NYC have?The podcast currently has 75 episodes available.
November 13, 2022Episode 15: Jereemiah Moss’ Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New YorkJeremiah Moss, the author of Feral New York, talks with THE CITY's Alyssa Katz about the "tremendous community connection and and oftentimes joyfulness in a moment of tremendous trauma and tragedy” for the people out in the streets amid the city's shutdown and reopening....more33minPlay
October 23, 2022Episode 14: Ann Nocenti’s Daredevil Years as ‘The Girl Behind the Fishtank’Ann Nocenti, the writer, journalist and filmmaker who wrote and edited some of the most iconic Marvel comics of the late 1980s and early 1990s — and who created the iconic characters Elektra and Longshot — joins the FAQ NYC podcast to discuss her early years in New York as “the girl who lived behind the fishtank,” quite literally. She digs into how her work in asylums influenced her stories about superheroes, creating Marvel’s first openly transgender character, the role of “fake news” in the comics she’s working on now, and much more. ...more41minPlay
October 09, 2022Episode 13: Manny Kirchheimer’s New York, and His Pandemic Time WarpAlyssa Katz talks with America’s “least known great documentarian” about his 86 years living here, his work during the pandemic editing his footage of the city from the 1950s (and that you can see over the next two weekends at the Museum of the Moving Image), how graffiti trains inspired his film Stations of the Elevated, and the big question: What is New York for?...more33minPlay
October 01, 2022Episode 12: Andrew Kirtzman's Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America's MayorBiographer Andrew Kirtzman talks with Harry Siegel about his quarter-century covering “America’s mayor” and the inevitable question: What happened to Rudy Giuliani? ...more37minPlay
November 13, 2021Episode 11: Twenty-one Eulogies for New York CityTwenty-one eulogies for the City of New York, in large or small part, collected for Alex Brook Lynn's installation “Eulogy For New York,” which ran during the month of October in the West Village....more1h 18minPlay
October 26, 2021Episode 10: Issa Ibrahim’s Eulogy for JamaicaArtist and musician Issa Ibrahim talks with Alex Brook Lynn about a song he wrote in New York's Creedmoor psychiatric facility, eulogizing the neighborhood he grew up in. ...more30minPlay
July 25, 2021Episode 9: Talking Pictures With David Godlis and Luc SantePhotographer David Godlis and writer Luc Sante talk with Alex Brook Lynn and Harry Siegel about Godlis Streets, his new book of 1970s street photography, and the different ways that shooters, and writers, captured glimpses of that city and the sometimes alluring "generalized small-time crumminess of so much of that decade." ...more1h 5minPlay
July 14, 2021Episode 8: Charles Farrell’s (Low)Life: A Memoir of Jazz, Fight-Fixing, and the MobJazz great turned boxing manager Charles Farrell visits the pod to talk with Harry and Vice's Tim Marchman about his memoir that covers, among other things, playing with Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman, fixing fights for the mob, "the Moby Dick of boxing" and lots more. Stick around to the end to hear him play a little piano, too. ...more1h 21minPlay
May 19, 2021Episode 7: Elon Green’s Lost Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New YorkAuthor Elon Green joins Nolan Hicks and Harry Siegel to talk about Lost Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York and how a city crew including Rudy Giuliani's mom, Bernard Kerik, Robert Morgenthau, Linda Fairstein, William Bulger and Mike McAclary all tie into that story. ...more53minPlay
April 28, 2021Episode 6: Alec MadGilllis' Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click AmericaA conversation with Alec MacGillis, the author of Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America, about Amazon and, among many other things, its expansion in New York City AFTER the collapse of its HQ2 plan here as the brave new pandemic economy has accelerated America's great divergence....more46minPlay
FAQs about Lit NYC:How many episodes does Lit NYC have?The podcast currently has 75 episodes available.