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LIVE! From City Lights

LIVE! From City Lights

A weekly Arts podcast

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Margaret Randall is an American-born writer, photographer, activist, and academic. ...More
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Dr. Jesse D. McCarthy is an essayist, cultural critic, and teacher. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He is also an Editor at The Point.McCarthy's research focuses on politics and aesthetics in African American literature, postwar literary history, and Black Studies. He is also interested in modernism, film, poetics and translation.McCarthy's writing on culture, politics, and literature has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Dissent, The New Republic and n+1. His first book, the essay collection "Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?," was published in 2021. His second book, the novel "The Fugitivities," was published later in 2021.McCarthy received his B.A. from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. ...More
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David Rolfe Graeber was an economic anthropologist and anarchist activist. He is best known for books "Debt: The First 5,000 Years," published in 2011, and "Bullshit Jobs," which was published in 2018, and his leading role in the Occupy movement.Graeber was an Assistant Professor at Yale University from 1998 to 2005. He then moved to England and became a lecturer and reader at Goldsmiths' College from 2008 to 2013, and a professor at the London School of Economics from 2013.Graeber died in September 2020. ...More
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Kevin Killian was a poet, author, editor, and playwright. He is known for being a groundbreaker of LGBT literature. He was also co-founder of the Poets Theater, a poetry, stage, and performance group based in San Francisco.Killian's first book, the novel "Shy," was published in 1989. He published four poetry collections, three collections of short stories, four novels, and one biography.Killian died in 2019. ...More
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Adam Hochschild is an author, journalist, historian, and lecturer. ...More
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Ralph Nader is a political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney. He is best known for his advocacy for consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform. His first book, "Unsafe at Any Speed," was published in 1965 and established his reputation as a consumer advocate. Following the publication of Unsafe at Any Speed, Nader led a group of volunteer law students in an investigation of the Federal Trade Commission, which led to the overhaul and reform of the FTC. Nader established a number of advocacy and watchdog groups including the Public Interest Research Group, the Center for Auto Safety, and Public Citizen.Nader ran for President of the United States as an independent in 2000, 2004, and 2008.Nader is the author or co-author of more than 40 books. He was the subject of a documentary film, "An Unreasonable Man," which was released in 2006.Nader was educated at Princeton and Harvard. ...More
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a historian, writer, and activist. ...More
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Yiyun Li is a Chinese-American writer. Her short stories and novels have won several awards & distinctions, including the PEN/Hemingway Award and Guardian First Book Award for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. ...More
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Joyce Carol Oates is a writer, author, poet, and novelist. ...More
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Clark Coolidge is a poet and a former jazz musician.Coolidge's first book, the collection "Flag Flutter & U.S. Electric," was published in 1966. ...More
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Mark Arax is a journalist and nonfiction author who writes about California.Arax was a staffer at the Los Angeles Times, and left in 2007 after a public fight over censorship of his story on the Armenian Genocide. He has taught literary non fiction at Claremont McKenna College and Fresno State University.Arax's work has appeared in The New York Times and the California Sunday Magazine.His first book, a memoir of his father's murder, "In My Father's Name," was published in 1997. His second book, "The King of California," was published in 2005, won a California Book Award, the William Saroyan Prize from Stanford University, and was named a top book of 2004 by the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. His most recent book, "The Dreamt Land" was published in 2019.Arax received his degrees from Fresno State and Columbia University. ...More
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R. Okyong Kwon is an author, best known for her first novel, "The Incendiaries," which was published in 2018.Kwon’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Vanity Fair, The Paris Review, Bookforum, and NPR. ...More
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Deborah Treisman is an author and editor. Currently, she is the Fiction Editor of The New Yorker, where she hosts "The New Yorker Fiction Podcast," and the edits the anthology "20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker."Previously, Treisman was the editor of the literary magazine Grand Street, and before that she worked at Harper's Bazaar.Treisman received her B.A. in Comparative literature from the University of California Berkeley. ...More
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Mark Bray is an author and Chair Professor of Comparative Education in the Comparative Education Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong. ...More
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Eileen Myles is a poet and writer. They have produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades.Myles received their B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts Boston, and began attending poetry readings and workshops at St. Mark’s Poetry Project. From 1977 to 1979, they published the poetry magazine dodgems. From 1984 to 1986, they were the artistic director of St. Mark’s Poetry Project.Myles has received a Guggenheim, a Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers grant, three Lambda Book Awards and a “Pioneer”lifetime achievement award, the Shelley Prize from the PSA, the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing, a poetry award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Publishing Triangle. ...More
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Jessica Bruder is a journalist. ...More
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Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California. ...More
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Jeff Chang is a journalist, music critic on hip hop music and culture, writer and author of the book, We Gon' Be Alright. ...More
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Elif Batuman is an author and journalist. ...More
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Anna Merlan is an journalist specializing in politics, crime, religion, subcultures, and women's lives and author of Republic of Lies. ...More
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