Ranked #1
Episode 365 - Ben Katchor
Episode 365 - Ben Katchor
The great cartoonist Ben Katchor rejoins the show to talk about his brand-new book, The Dairy Restaurant (Schocken), a 5... Read more
9 Mar 2020
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1hr 26mins
Ranked #2
Episode 311 - Martin Hägglund
Episode 311 - Martin Hägglund
What if we treated our finite lives as a feature instead of a bug? How would we revalue our time and how could that shap... Read more
11 Mar 2019
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1hr 4mins
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Episode 109 - The Confidence Man
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Walter Kirn joins the show to talk about his latest book, Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a M... Read more
10 Mar 2015
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1hr 16mins
Ranked #4
Episode 372 - Tom Hart
Episode 372 - Tom Hart
Cartoonist and educator Tom Hart joins the show to talk about how the Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW) is adapting to t... Read more
14 May 2020
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1hr 20mins
Ranked #5
COVID Check-In with James Sturm
COVID Check-In with James Sturm
Cartoonist James Sturm checks in from Hartland, VT. We talk about how COVID-19 has affected learning at the Center for C... Read more
6 Apr 2020
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34mins
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COVID Check-In with Sato Moughalian
COVID Check-In with Sato Moughalian
Flutist and author Sato Moughalian was the last person with whom I recorded an in-person podcast, and the first guest of... Read more
9 May 2020
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43mins
Ranked #7
Episode 220 - Seth
Episode 220 - Seth
Seth returns to the show to talk about Palookaville, making a living, his changing relationship to comics and cartoonist... Read more
30 May 2017
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1hr 14mins
Ranked #8
Episode 225 - Howard Chaykin
Episode 225 - Howard Chaykin
Comics legend Howard Chaykin joins the show to talk about his career, the early assignment he'll never live down, gettin... Read more
4 Jul 2017
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1hr 58mins
Ranked #9
Episode 304 - Edmund White
Episode 304 - Edmund White
Novelist, memoirist, essayist and queer literary icon Edmund White joins the show to talk about his new memoir, The Unpu... Read more
22 Jan 2019
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1hr 20mins
Ranked #10
Episode 216 - George Prochnik
Episode 216 - George Prochnik
"Scholem teaches us that the Jewish tradition is so capacious it could embrace its own subversion." George Prochnik retu... Read more
1 May 2017
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1hr 32mins
Ranked #11
Season 4, Episode 5 - Feeling Gravett's Pull
Season 4, Episode 5 - Feeling Gravett's Pull
"Comics is a medium that isn't going to go away. It may just now finally be coming into its own in the 21st century. In ... Read more
3 Feb 2014
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1hr 21mins
Ranked #12
Season 4, Episode 22 - Wax, Rhapsodic
Season 4, Episode 22 - Wax, Rhapsodic
"When I first started out, what I liked was the unlikely image, the unlikely metaphor. What I like now is finding that s... Read more
9 Jun 2014
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51mins
Ranked #13
Episode 290 - Jason Lutes
Episode 290 - Jason Lutes
For the third installment in our ad hoc Germany/fascism triptych, Jason Lutes joins the show to talk about completing hi... Read more
7 Oct 2018
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1hr 20mins
Ranked #14
COVID Check-In with Dean Haspiel
COVID Check-In with Dean Haspiel
Cartoonist and playwright Dean Haspiel checks in from Brooklyn (home of his superhero, The Red Hook!). We talk about mak... Read more
15 Apr 2020
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37mins
Ranked #15
COVID Check-In with Whitney Matheson
COVID Check-In with Whitney Matheson
Writer and critic Whitney Matheson checks in from Brooklyn, after a multi-week bout with COVID-19 (her doctor thinks she... Read more
17 Apr 2020
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35mins
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Episode 337 - Amor Towles
Episode 337 - Amor Towles
After a 20-year sojourn in the investment world, Amor Towles returned to his first love by writing the bestselling novel... Read more
17 Sep 2019
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1hr 30mins
Ranked #17
Episode 341 - Chris Ware
Episode 341 - Chris Ware
With the publication of part 1 of Rusty Brown (Pantheon), Chris Ware joins the show to talk about how he and his art cha... Read more
30 Sep 2019
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1hr 36mins
Ranked #18
Episode 321 - Nina Bunjevac
Episode 321 - Nina Bunjevac
Back from her Fool's Journey in France, Nina Bunjevac returns to the show to celebrate her new book, Bezimena (Fantagrap... Read more
21 May 2019
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1hr 28mins
Ranked #19
Episode 287 - Audrey Niffenegger
Episode 287 - Audrey Niffenegger
In NYC for the Brooklyn Book Festival, author/artist Audrey Niffenegger joins the show to talk about her work and life. ... Read more
17 Sep 2018
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1hr 16mins
Ranked #20
Episode 330 - Milton Glaser
Episode 330 - Milton Glaser
He turned 90 a few weeks ago, but design legend Milton Glaser isn't slowing down. We got together to talk about moving t... Read more
28 Jul 2019
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1hr 8mins