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Esquire Classic Podcast

A weekly Arts and Literature podcast featuring David Brancaccio

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Esquire Classic Podcast

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Esquire Classic Podcast

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Esquire Classic Podcast

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Esquire Classic Podcast

A weekly Arts and Literature podcast featuring David Brancaccio
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Dec 22nd, 2016
If president-elect Donald Trump learned anything from his mentor Roy Cohn, it was this: punch first and never apologize. Cohn was notorious for going on the attack—as counsel for Senator Joseph McCarthy during the communist witch-hunts of the fifties, and later as a pugnacious attorney for whom the only bad publicity w...

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ArtsLiterature
Dec 13th, 2016
In the year 2015, with GPS and satellites and global surveillance everywhere all the time, how does a massive airplane simply go missing?

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Dec 13th, 2016
The question is astonishingly simple: In the year 2015, with GPS and satellites and global surveillance everywhere all the time, how does a massive airplane simply go missing? To find the answer, writer Bucky McMahon boarded one of the vessels searching for Malaysia Air 370 in one of the most isolated and treacherous s...

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ArtsLiterature
Dec 6th, 2016
Published in 1992, Richard Ben Cramer’s What It Takes: The Way to the White House remains the richest and most unvarnished account of the personal price of running for president. The irony, as Cramer pointed out to C-SPAN shortly after the book came out, is that to become president a candidate must sacrifice the entire...

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ArtsLiterature
Nov 28th, 2016
Norman Maclean published A River Runs Through It when he was seventy-three, and only after his children implored him to write down the stories about fly-fishing, brotherhood, and the wilds of Montana that he’d told them for years. The resulting novella is a classic of economy and clarity. A few years later, Pete Dexter...

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Nov 21st, 2016
Jim Harrison, the novelist and poet who died earlier this year at the age of 78, had a gargantuan, fearless appetite that would make both A.J. Liebling and Anthony Bourdain proud. He wrote about food—about eating, really— in a woolly, baroque style for Esquire’s “The Raw and the Cooked” column. He began one piece with ...

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Nov 14th, 2016
12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley discusses Garry Wills’s 1968 profile, “Martin Luther King Jr Is Still on the Case!”

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Nov 7th, 2016
A chronicle of risk and romance on the sidelines of the NBA

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Oct 31st, 2016
A meeting of two American masters: Robert Noyce and Tom Wolfe.

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Oct 24th, 2016
Trust me, he said, and the last great brawling sports team in America did. Twenty years after Thurman Munson’s death, Reggie, Catfish, Goose, Gator, the Boss—and a nation of former boys—still aren’t over it.

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ArtsLiterature
Oct 17th, 2016
F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Crack-Up," a series of essays from 1936 about his alcoholism and mental breakdown, set off a genre of confessional writing that persists and thrives today.

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ArtsLiterature
Oct 10th, 2016
When a surgeon cut into Henry Molaison’s skull to treat him for epilepsy, he inadvertently created the most important brain-research subject of our time—a man who could no longer remember, who taught us everything we know about memory. Six decades later, another daring researcher is cutting into Henry’s brain. Another ...

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Oct 3rd, 2016
John H. Richardson on our cultural infatuation with celebrity and the humanity that lurks on both sides of the camera lens.

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Sep 26th, 2016
At the end of a glorious career, the defiant legend takes refuge in his most cherished partner—himself.

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ArtsLiterature
Sep 19th, 2016
And some of the most important people in some of the most important places in New York, New Jersey, Southern California and Las Vegas are suddenly developing postnasal drip

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ArtsLiterature
Sep 12th, 2016
The artist’s life demands solitude, sensitivity, and often a little something to get him through the night. The very same things can destroy him

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ArtsLiterature
Sep 6th, 2016
Do you remember this photograph?

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ArtsLiterature
Aug 29th, 2016
What it feels like to be a boy in America.

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ArtsLiterature
Aug 22nd, 2016
He was a beautiful man, and someone had to liberate these women from their marriages. When he died, women grieved. Lots and lots of women.

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ArtsLiterature
Aug 15th, 2016
Shaping Up absurd.

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Aug 8th, 2016
A Hurdler in Inner Space.

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Aug 1st, 2016
What It Takes is the most comprehensive account ever written about the personal price of running for president.

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ArtsLiterature
Jul 25th, 2016
When he looks back at his father, he sees a dim figure losing its substance to sickness, and when the past is a cipher, there is no redeeming the present. There is only living it.

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Jul 18th, 2016
It’s convention time, an ideal moment to revisit Norman Mailer's legendary 1960 reported essay, “Superman Comes to the Supermarket,” about JFK and the Democratic political convention.

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Jul 11th, 2016
The closing of the Four Seasons, home of the “power lunch.”

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