Arto Lindsay is a singer-songwriter who divides his time between Sao Paolo and New York City, and one of the most influential figures in the New York Downtown scene that emerged in the early 1980s. A member of the “No Wave” band DNA and of the

Adam Shatz with Arto Lindsay, part 1

Jan 25th, 2022 47m 22s

Adam Shatz with James Lasdun

Jan 11th, 2022 1h 8m

A novelist, memoirist, critic, poet and screenwriter, James Lasdun has created a memorable body of work exploring the themes of existential dread, reputational damage and surveillance. The son of a well-known British architect, Lasdun is perhap

Adam Shatz with Alain Gresh

Jan 4th, 2022 57m 59s

Alain Gresh, a French journalist, was the editor of Le Monde Diplomatique and is now the director of Orient XXI, an online journal about Middle East affairs. Gresh’s writing on Israel-Palestine and on the battles over Islam and secularism have

Adam Shatz and William Parker, part 2

Dec 21st, 2021 44m 30s

The bassist, composer and poet William Parker is the soul of the Lower East Side free jazz scene. A veteran of ensembles led by Cecil Taylor, Bill Dixon, Billy Bang and David S. Ware, Parker is also remarkable leader in his own right. In 2021 h

Adam Shatz and William Parker, part 1

Dec 21st, 2021 56m 41s

Adam Shatz with Claudia Roden

Dec 14th, 2021 1m 14s

Claudia Roden is the author of cookbooks that revolutionized eating in the United Kingdom, including The Book of Jewish Food and Arabesques. Raised in a Jewish family in Cairo, Roden began to collect Middle Eastern recipes after her family and

Adam Shatz with Marilyn Crispell

Dec 7th, 2021 1h 3m

The pianist Marilyn Crispell works in jazz and improvised music. Crispell started out in classical music, but when she heard Coltrane’s spiritual suite A Love Supreme, she experienced an epiphany that led her to jazz. A member of Anthony Braxto

Adam Shatz with Joe Sacco

Nov 30th, 2021 1h 13m

Joe Sacco is a Portland-based cartoonist and graphic novelist who has reported from Bosnia, Palestine, India, and Iraq. His powerful chronicles of modern-day political atrocities – in such books as Safe Area Gorazde, Footnotes in Gaza, and Payi

Adam Shatz with George Lewis, part 2

Nov 17th, 2021 41m 29s

George Lewis is a composer of contemporary classical music, an avant-garde jazz trombonist, an electronic sound artist, an essayist, and the author of A Power Stronger than Itself, the definitive history of the Association for the Advancement o

Adam Shatz with George Lewis, part 1

Nov 16th, 2021 51m 25s

Adam Shatz with Margo Jefferson

Nov 9th, 2021 1h 13m

Margo Jefferson won the Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 1995, and the 2015 National Book Critics Circle award in autobiography for her memoir, Negroland, about growing up in an upper-middle class black family in Chicago. During her years at the

Adam Shatz with Vivian Gornick

Nov 2nd, 2021 1h 5m

Vivian Gornick is a writer of essays, criticism, and literary nonfiction, a fierce feminist, and a proud New Yorker. Her 1987 book about her relationship with her mother, Fierce Attachments, was recently chosen by the book critics of the New Yo

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