The Colophon

We are pleased to present Episode 4 of Thornwillow's #Bloomsyear Centennial Reading of James Joyce's ULYSSES. Featuring Declan Kiberd, Winsome Brown, and Stephen Fry reading Episode IV, CALYPSO of James Joyce's ULYSSES.

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We are pleased to present Episode 3 of Thornwillow's #Bloomsyear Centennial Reading of James Joyce's ULYSSES. Featuring Edoardo Ballerini, David Mamet, Tamara Glenny, Richard Nash, Ally Bunbury, and Charl Brown reading Episode III, PROTEUS of James Joyce's ULYSSES.

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We are pleased to present Episode 2 of Thornwillow's #Bloomsyear Centennial Reading of James Joyce's ULYSSES. Featuring Ronald Patkus, Kathleen Chalfant, and Will Hearst reading Episode II, NESTOR of James Joyce's ULYSSES.

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We are pleased to present Episode 1 of Thornwillow's #Bloomsyear Centennial Reading of James Joyce's ULYSSES. Featuring Oliver Jeffers, Rob Doyle, Loudon Wainwright III, Alison Fraser, and Malachy McCourt reading Episode I, TELEMACHUS of James Joyce's ULYSSES.

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Phil Klay, National Book Award Winner and Iraq War Veteran, and Colonel David Harper sit down with us to discuss our publication of Klay's story Ten Kliks South in collaboration with the Thornwillow West Point Fellows. While we reflect on the nature of modern warfare, we also remember the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and the conflicts that followed. 

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In this episode, we take a bold leap into the apocalyptic imagination of celebrated New Yorker cartoonist, Roz Chast. We discuss her newest publication with Thornwillow Press, How We Survived, and ponder the end of the world that was. Along the way, we ruminate on her extraordinary career as an artist and how art saves all. 
 

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This episode of "The Colophon" features a great friend of the Press, Morrie Heckscher, Curator Emeritus of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. While visiting the Press a few months back (which, during a pandemic, is starting to feel like a lifetime ago), Morrie sat down with us to discuss our latest collaborative project: Chippendale’s Drawings for The Director, which reproduces and publishes, for the first time, Thomas Chippendale’s original drawings for his 1754 volume, The Gentleman and Cabinetmaker’s Director.
Learn more about this historic edition here: https://thornwillow.com/chippendale-director-heckscher-speelberg

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Colonel Harper, Head of the Department of English and Philosophy at West Point, is a dear friend to the Press and visited to talk about our latest collaborative project, Beauty is the Beginning ofTerror. Along the way, he shared fascinating insights into the life and works of John Milton (one of his academic focus areas), censorship, and the freedom of ideas.

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We sat down with Adam Gopnik, mainstay writer at the New Yorker, to discuss everything from becoming a professional writer to life as a dog in New York City.

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We sat down with Harold Holzer, one of the world's leading scholars of Abraham Lincoln, and director of The Roosevelt House in New York City. This episode was taped in Franklin Delano Roosevelt's personal library, where, as Harold explains, he "learned to walk again" and where the New Deal got its start.

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