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Writers Daniel Torday and Eric Rosenblum discuss the weekly content of the New Yorker Magazine. Plus special guests!
Episodes
Friday Mar 08, 2019
Friday Mar 08, 2019
Dan and Eric discuss their 15-year friendship; Evan Osnos's piece on North Korea, in which he compares Michael Cohen to North Korean defector, Tae Young Ho; Jane Mayer's breaking news story about Fox News and the Trump white house; Yiyun Li's use of the first person in her new short story; David Remnick's profile of Buddy Guy (in which the editor in chief includes a bit of autobiography); and former Harper's editor James Marcus about his father's death.
Monday Mar 04, 2019
Monday Mar 04, 2019
Dan talks with musician and memoirist Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast. Zauner's "Crying in H Mart" appeared on the New Yorker site in August 2018 to great fanfare. A memoir-length version will be published by Knopf next year. Zauner was a student of Dan's at Bryn Mawr College, and they talk about their work together, her work as a director, sing-songwriter, and all-around polymath powerhouse.
Thursday Feb 28, 2019
Thursday Feb 28, 2019
Dan and Eric talk about their love of magazines; Jeffrey Toobin's Comment piece about former FBI director, Andrew McCabe; Sam Knight's piece about psychologists who believed in ESP in 1960s and 70s England; a #metoo story by Jonathan Lethem; and the sublime poetry of Michael Dickman.
Monday Feb 25, 2019
Monday Feb 25, 2019
Eric talks to award-winning novelist and short story writer Akhil Sharma about writing for the New Yorker since 1997, the works of Anton Chekhov, working on his Folio-prize winning novel, Family Life, for more than a decade, and much much more!
Friday Feb 22, 2019
Friday Feb 22, 2019
Dan and Eric come together for the anniversary issue, episode two! They discuss the piece "Private Mossad for Hire" by Ronan Farrow and Adam Entous; Farrow's work for the New Yorker since he became a contributor in 2017; Harvey Weinstein's use of private Israeli intelligence agencies; the wonderful cartoons of Maggie Larson; and much more!
Monday Feb 18, 2019
Monday Feb 18, 2019
Eric talks to New Yorker contributor Keith Gessen about his long history of writing for the magazine; the founding of N+1; what Keith learned about fiction writing from fellow New Yorker contributors George Saunders and Rebecca Curtis; and much much more!
Wednesday Feb 13, 2019
Wednesday Feb 13, 2019
Dan and Eric discuss Kadir Nelson's beautiful anniversary issue cover; Jelani Cobb and his incisive piece on the new bill, H.R. 1; Jeffrey Toobin, his current piece about Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi, and his 2008 profile of Stone; Franco-Moroccan novelist Leila Slimani's excellent new short story; Vinson Cunningham on college basketball star Zion Williamson and his exquisite moves; and Dan's teaching. Plus, the history of translated fiction in the New Yorker!
Tuesday Feb 12, 2019
Tuesday Feb 12, 2019
Dan and Eric discuss the George Saunders interview; their memories from studying with George in the Syracuse University MFA program; what George continues to mean in their daily lives; and the early days of their own 15-year friendship.
Monday Feb 11, 2019
Monday Feb 11, 2019
Eric talks to fiction writer and New Yorker contributor, George Saunders, about first getting published in the magazine, finding the right ending to "Sea Oak," the legacies of fiction editors at the NYer, his first big New York City literary party, teaching fiction writing, his friendship with David Foster Wallace, and so much more.
Wednesday Feb 06, 2019
Wednesday Feb 06, 2019
Dan and Eric discuss the Ian Parker tale of writer/editor Dan Mallory's fascinating trail of deception; TC Boyle's short story in which he envisions a future with all self-driving cars; Margaret Talbot's take on what the Dems should do next; and Dan Chiasson's thoughts about poet Shane McCrae's most recent book, "The Gilded Auction Block."