Lit NYC
The ABCs of arts, books, culture, etcetera in NYC
About the show
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 and future of New York.
The podcast is a project of The City, a nonprofit newsroom serving the people of New York.
Episodes
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Episode 2: Mark Alan Stamaty's MacDoodle Street
March 28th, 2019 | 38 mins 31 secs
MacDoodle Street—the story of dishwashing poet Malcolm Frazzle that first appeared in the pages of the Village Voice in the late 1970s—is back in print thanks to the fine nerds of the New York Review of Books.
Bill Bramhall, editorial cartoonist for the Daily News, joined Harry Siegel and Alex Brook Lynn for a conversation with Stamaty about his work, God, drugs, those hacks Artman and Andy Warhol, donuts and love, and, of course, umbilical oralism and the ultimate painting.
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Episode 1: John Strausbaugh's Victory City and Ron Howell's Boss of Black Brooklyn
December 13th, 2018 | 47 mins 13 secs
White supremacists holding rallies with fascists and anti-fascists brawling outside, and war looming. Maybe that sounds like NYC in 2018, but we're talking NYC in WWII and the years around it along with special guests John Strausbaugh, author of "Victory City: A history of New York and New Yorkers during World War II," and Ron Howell, author of "Boss of Black Brooklyn: The life and times of Bertram L. Baker."