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Art of This Century | Mike Wallace

Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · 14h

Read an excerpt from “Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945.” www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/a...

Peggy Guggenheim’s Manhattan project.

Art of This Century | Mike Wallace

Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · 14h

Peggy Guggenheim’s Manhattan project. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/a...

Peggy Guggenheim’s Manhattan project.

Episode 14: Charles Baxter on “The Sermon”

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Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · 8d

“But what is important to me in ‘The Sermon’ is that he—how can I put this?—he is the person who wants to bring a sense of proportion. And Ahab is the person who wants you to give up any sense of proportionality.” www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...

Episode 14: Charles Baxter on “The Sermon”

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UMN English @umnenglish.bsky.social · 9d

“Father Mapple is in some strange, almost obscure way, a kind of negative double for Ahab.... he is the person who wants to bring a sense of proportion. Father Mapple kind of supplies a warning and a possible lens for a reading of the entire novel" - Retired Prof/novelist Charles Baxter on Moby Dick

Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · 12d

Charles Baxter visits The World in Time to talk with Donovan Hohn about the politics and the mysteries of charisma in Moby Dick. www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...

The Flag of Ahab | Charles Baxter

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Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · 9d

Read Charles Baxter on the literature and politics of charisma. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/f...

On the literature and politics of charisma.

Episode 14: Charles Baxter on “The Sermon”

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Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · 12d

Charles Baxter visits The World in Time to talk with Donovan Hohn about the politics and the mysteries of charisma in Moby Dick. www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...

The FBI reads James Baldwin.

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Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · 20d

J. Edgar Hoover’s Federal Bureau of Investigation opened its file on James Baldwin in April 1960 when Baldwin’s name appeared among the signatories to an open letter that the Fair Play for Cuba Committee published as an advertisement in the New York Times. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/b...

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Episode 13: Nicholas Boggs on James Baldwin

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Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · 22d

“They really were outsiders, all of them. Sometimes people think, oh, well, he was just drawn to these men who were essentially straight, like he had some kind of complex or something. Maybe. But he was also just drawn to these crazy outsiders. www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...

The FBI reads James Baldwin.

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Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · 23d

The FBI reads James Baldwin. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/b...

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Notes on a Native Son | Otto Friedrich

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Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · 26d

“He writes wonderfully about Baldwin. He writes about their early days in Paris. Friedrich had these wonderful, wonderful anecdotes about the trips they took to the south of France that went totally awry.” www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/n...

An excerpt from “Jimmy.”

Episode 13: Nicholas Boggs on James Baldwin

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Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · 26d

This week on the podcast, Donovan Hohn speaks with biographer Nicholas Boggs about “Baldwin: A Love Story,” a book three decades in the making. www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...

The Draft of Time | James Marcus

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Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · Sep 2

A reading from “Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson.” www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/d...

A reading from Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Draft of Time | James Marcus

Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · Sep 2

He entered the world on May 25, 1803. This was in Boston, the city he would later condemn as a necropolis of dead ideas and faint hearts and mercantile mildew. But what he saw as a child was very different. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/d...

A reading from Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Episode 12: James Marcus on Emerson and Melville

Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · Aug 29

This week on the podcast, Donovan Hohn speaks with writer and biographer James Marcus about his book “Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson.” www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...

Episode 11: Matthew Hollis on “The Seafarer”

Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · Aug 25

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Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · Aug 25

“Some of the fears about loneliness, some of the fears about pain, some of the worries about doubt, about making a good life or the life of right choosing, are issues that trouble us in exactly the same way, or challenge us in exactly the same way.” www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...

The Sheer Alone | Matthew Hollis

Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · Aug 22

Read a selection from Hollis’ translation of The Seafarer here. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/s...

A reading from a new translation of The Seafarer.

Episode 11: Matthew Hollis on “The Seafarer”

Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · Aug 22

Into the conversation the episode weaves audio samples from different translations and different recordings, including one made by Lewis Lapham, another by Ezra Pound, and a third by Matthew Hollis himself. www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...

Episode 11: Matthew Hollis on “The Seafarer”

Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · Aug 22

This week on the podcast, Donovan Hohn speaks with Matthew Hollis about his new translation of The Seafarer, about the history of the poem’s improbable survival, and about its rediscovery by the Romantics and the Modernists. www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...

Episode 10: “Loomings,” with Francine Prose

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Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · Aug 12

Consider the meanings of the verb to loom, whether Ishmael is likeable or funny, why the antebellum religious press condemned Moby Dick, and what the best medicine might be for “the universal thump” on our podcast. www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...

Episode 10: “Loomings,” with Francine Prose

Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · Aug 11

“If you were to ask a range of readers, ‘Can you think of a 1st sentence?’ You probably get ‘It was the best of times, and the worst of times’ or ‘the worst of times, & the best of times,’ and people would get it backward. But then you get ‘Call me Ishmael.’” www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...

Greil Gerstley | Greil Marcus

Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · Aug 11

“I write for fun. I write for play. I write for the play of words. I write to discover what I want to say and how to say it—and the nerve to say it.” Read an essay from Greil Marcus. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/g...

An essay from What Nails It.

The Right to Dissent | Roger Berkowitz

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Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · Aug 1

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Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · Aug 4

Read an excerpt from “On Civil Disobedience: Henry David Thoreau, Hannah Arendt.” @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social @libraryofamerica.bsky.social www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/r...

On Hannah Arendt’s “Civil Disobedience.”