Joseph has a few things to chat about with you, and then we present the first episode of our new show, Our Plague Year.
Introducing a new kind of current events podcast. An island in a storm of bad headlines. An experiment in public anxiety. Let's get through this year together.
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Jan 2022
S10E002 – "Wring Out the Old" – Scary Stories Told in the Dark
It is a new year, and Season 2 brings two stories of frights, one from author Jasper DeWitt and another from Brian Martinez. In the first, we learn of the secret history of what Saint Nicholas really did...what is in store for years to come. In the second, a young man retells a s ... Show More
53m 55s
Mar 2016
EXTRA - Introducing The Author’s Voice: New Fiction from The New Yorker
<p>Beginning March 21, you’ll be able to hear the stories that appear in <em>The New Yorker</em>, read by their authors, on our new podcast, The Author’s Voice: New Fiction from The New Yorker. For this special, one-time preview episode of the podcast, we’ve put together an antho ... Show More
1h 22m
Dec 2017
124 James Joyce’s “The Dead” (Part 2)
In this second part of a two-part episode, we look at the resounding conclusion of James Joyce’s masterpiece “The Dead,” which contains some of the finest prose ever written in the English language. Be warned: this episode, which runs from Gabriel’s speech to the final revelatory ... Show More
1h 25m