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April 11, 2022 Episode 42: The Transmogrifications of Gary Leib
Phil is joined by Peter Catapano, of the New York Times, and graphic novelist Jess Ruliffson to discuss Peter's essay on the life and work of cartoonist Gary Leib
The Manifesto:
Peter Catapano, “I’m Going to Make a Fire”: The Transmogrifications of Gary Leib
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/im-going-to-make-a-fire-the-transmogrifications-of-gary-leib/
The Art:
Gary Leib's animation for The Stone
https://vimeo.com/148232540
Leib's animations for the Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/opinion/01leib_bio.html
Other:
Pre-order Peter's forthcoming book, Question Everything
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324091837
Pre-order Jess' forthcoming graphic novel, Invisible Wounds.
https://jessruliffson.com/home.html
1 hr 10 min
March 05, 2022 Episode 41: To Be Incarnational
Jake and Phil are joined by the great poet Tom Sleigh to discuss his essay "To Be Incarnational," on the World War I poetry of David Jones, as well as Tom's poem "In Which a Spider Weaves a Web on My Computer Screen"
The Manifesto:
Tom Sleigh, To Be Incarnational
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/70066/to-be-incarnational
The Art:
Tom Sleigh, "In Which a Spider Weaves a Web on My Computer Screen"
https://vimeo.com/669317283
1 hr 46 min
February 04, 2022 Episode 40: Flannery O'Connor versus Andre Dubus II
Jake and Phil (finally) discuss Flannery O'Connor's Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction, alongside Andre Dubus II's short story Killings
The Manifesto:
Flannery O'Connor, Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction
https://bscc.instructure.com/courses/4608/files/434937/download?download_frd=1
Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMrveIu0DdE
The Art:
Andre Dubus II, Killings
https://www.uww.edu/documents/library/ersearch/er/moore_g/moore_101/dubuskillings_101_moore.pdf
1 hr 29 min
January 06, 2022 Episode 39: What Jazz Is and Isn't
Jake and Phil are joined by jazz pianist and composer Ethan Iverson to discuss Wynton Marsalis' "What Jazz Is—and Isn't", as well as Marsalis' 1985 album J Mood.
The Manifesto:
Wynton Marsalis - "What Jazz Is—and Isn't",
https://wyntonmarsalis.org/news/entry/music-what-jazz-is-and-isnt
The Art:
Wynton Marsalis - J Mood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PerIfsVGl_0
Ethan Iverson's website:
https://ethaniverson.com/
The track played of Ethan's in the middle of the podcast is The Eternal Verities, off his upcoming album Every Note is True
https://store.bluenote.com/products/ethan-iverson-every-note-is-true#:~:text=Pianist%20and%20composer%20Ethan%20Iverson,and%20legendary%20drummer%20Jack%20DeJohnette.
1 hr 33 min
November 10, 2021 Episode 38: My Quarrel with Authentic Reactionaries
Jake and Phil are joined by Joseph Keegin to discuss Nicolás Gómez Dávila‘s “The Authentic Reactionary,” and Chaim Grade’s classic of Yiddish literature: “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner”
The Manifesto:
Nicolás Gómez Dávila‘s “The Authentic Reactionary”
https://isi.org/modern-age/the-authentic-reactionary/
The Art:
Chaim Grade’s “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner”
https://mosaicmagazine.com/response/arts-culture/2020/12/my-quarrel-with-hersh-rasseyner/
1 hr 45 min
October 07, 2021 Episode 37: Humane War
Phil is joined by Samuel Moyn to discuss his new book, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, alongside Kathe Kollwitz's The Survivors
The Manifesto:
Samuel Moyn - Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374173708/humane
The Art:
Kathe Kollwitz, The Survivors
https://aestronauts.com/post/114048762630/kathe-kollwitz-the-survivors
1 hr 6 min
September 15, 2021 Episode 36: The Simple Art of Murder
Jake and Phil discuss Raymond Chandler's The Simple Art of Murder, alongside Ross MacDonald's novel Black Money.
The Manifesto:
http://jacksharman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Raymond-Chandler-Simple-Art-of-Murder.pdf
The Art:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/105230/black-money-by-ross-macdonald/
1 hr 13 min
July 17, 2021 Episode 35: Did You Kill Anyone?
Jake and Phil are joined by Scott Beauchamp to discuss his new book, Did You Kill Anyone? Reunderstanding My Military Experience as a Critique of Modern Culture, and Alistair Macleod's "The Closing Down of Summer"
The Manifesto:
Scott Beauchamp, Did You Kill Anyone? Reunderstanding My Military Experience as a Critique of Modern Culture
Read an excerpt: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/did-you-kill-anyone
The Art:
Alistair Macleod, "The Closing Down of Summer"
https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393341188
1 hr 23 min
May 19, 2021 Episode 34: Fratelli Tutti and Fairview
A special live episode of Manifesto! A Podcast courtesy of Fairfield University's Inspired Writers Series. Jake and Phil are joined by Vinson Cunningham, a theater critic and staff writer at the New Yorker, to discuss Pope Francis' Fratelli Tutti and Jackie Sibblies Drury's Fairview.
The Manifesto:
Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti
http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20201003_enciclica-fratelli-tutti.html
Jackie Sibblies Drury, Fairview
https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/jackie-sibblies-drury
Other work referenced:
Vinson Cunningham, Many and One
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/many-and-one-0
1 hr 18 min
April 13, 2021 Episode 33: The Dream of Meritocracy Produces Monsters
Phil is joined by Eugene McCarraher, Professor of the Humanities and History at Villanova University, to discuss his article "A Providentialism Without God: The Case Against Meritocracy" as well as Goya's "The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters"
The Manifesto:
Eugene McCarraher, "A Providentialism Without God: The Case Against Meritocracy"
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/providentialism-without-god
The Art:
Goya, "The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sleep_of_Reason_Produces_Monsters#/media/File:Francisco_Jos%C3%A9_de_Goya_y_Lucientes_-_The_sleep_of_reason_produces_monsters_(No._43),_from_Los_Caprichos_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
Other works discussed:
Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674984615
Michael Young, The Rise of the Meritocracy
https://www.routledge.com/The-Rise-of-the-Meritocracy/Young/p/book/9781560007043
Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374289980
David Goodhart, Head, Hand, Heart
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Head-Hand-Heart/David-Goodhart/9781982128470
Fredrik deBoer, The Cult of Smart
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250200372
William Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep
https://billderesiewicz.com/books/excellent-sheep/
Alejandro Anreus, Shades of Suffering: Goya's Graphic Imagination
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/shades-suffering
Nicholas Penny, The People's Goya
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v26/n18/nicholas-penny/the-people-s-goya
Julian Bell, Teeming With Things Unknown
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/10/08/francisco-goya-teeming-things-unknown/
1 hr 30 min

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