The New Yorker - Out Loud

New Yorker - Out Loud

Go To: PodCast Table Subscribe

This podcast, published by The New Yorker, is a series of weekly conversations about new items and coverage in The New Yorker Magazine.

**Whats New in The New Yorker Podcasts**
Title	Podcast Description	Author/Reader	Duration
Pianist Jeremy Denk on recording an album.	Pianist Jeremy Denk discusses recording Charles Ives's "Concord" Sonata with Blake Eskin. Joys and frustrations of recording music, and some alternate takes.	The New Yorker	00:13:29
Jonah Lehrer: Stimulating group creativity	Jonah Lehrer looks at the science behind teamwork. Why brainstorming doesn't work, and why encouraging criticism and coffee breaks does.	The New Yorker	00:14:04
Donald Hall and His Family Home	Donald Hall writes about growing old in his family's New Hampshire farmhouse. He talks about how it inspires his writing and why he's stopped writing poetry.	The New Yorker	00:12:56
The future of video and television	John Seabrook talks to Blake Eskin about how YouTube is trying to grow, and what it might mean for the future of television.	The New Yorker	00:10:00
American crime reporter in Japan	Peter Hessler profiles Jake Adelstein, an American who reports on organized crime in Japan, and talks with Blake Eskin about the Yakuza, and his own experiences as a reporter abroad.	The New Yorker	00:12:53
Favorite Out Loud podcasts from 2011	Blake Eskin surveys some of his favorite Out Loud podcasts from the past twelve months.	The New Yorker	00:06:36
Burkhard Bilger on desertification.	Blake Eskin talks with Bilger about his visit to the Sahel, in Africa, and how farmers there are using agroforestry to grow crops and keep the Sahara at bay.	The New Yorker	00:08:45
Don Carlo Gesualdo	Alex Ross talks to Blake Eskin about Renaissance prince and composer Don Carlo Gesualdo's visionary music and violent life, with musical excerpts.	The New Yorker	00:13:48
Best and worst films	David Denby and Blake Eskin review "The Adventures of Tintin", "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and other end-of-year releases looking for adult audiences and award nominations.	The New Yorker	00:12:52
Walking About Town	The 'Going On About Town' section of the The New Yorker is available as a free iPhone or Android app. Blake Eskin previews Calvin Trillin's eating tour of lower Manhattan and more...	The New Yorker	00:09:14
The pleasures of television	Emily Nussbaum talks about Whitney Cummings, who stars in the television show "Whitney," and is also co-creator of "2 Broke Girls." She discusses what doesn't work about these two shows, and why she loves writing about TV.	The New Yorker	00:13:40
Alternative history in fiction	Thomas Mallon writes about alternative history - fiction in which the South wins the Civil War, and J.F.K. lives. He tells how challenging this can be and which historical moment he would most like to change.	The New Yorker	00:13:55
Birth control, abortion, and politics	Jill Lepore talks about the American Birth Control League, conservative support for Planned Parenthood, and how an organization founded to prevent abortions came to provide them.	The New Yorker	00:15:31
Daniel Mendelsohn on a slimmer, faster Iliad	Daniel Mendelsohn reviews a new, slimmer version of Homer's Iliad, translated by Stephen Mitchell, and tells us how this new translation fits into the old argument over the authorship of the Iliad.	The New Yorker	00:15:34
Mark Alan Stamaty on storytelling, cartoons, and his parents	Cartoonist Mark Alan Stamaty remembers growing up with two cartoonist parents. He talks to Blake Eskin about the shift from gag cartoons and the rise of undergound comics, and about what motivates his own work.	The New Yorker	00:12:01
Biodiversity and birdwatching in northeastern Turkey	Elif Batuman traveled to northeastern Turkey to visit an ornithologist. He tells of the region's history, the challenges facing wildlife there, and how the human and natural worlds are interwoven.	The New Yorker	00:12:10
An alternative to the war on drugs	Michael Specter looks at Portugal a decade after it decriminalized personal drug use. He tells why it makes sense to treat drug abuse as a public-health problem rather than a crime, and what we can learn from Portugal.	The New Yorker	00:12:05
Akash Kapur on modernization and rural life	Akash Kapur visits a shandy, or cow market, to see how India's economic rise is changing rural life. He talks about how difficult it's become to make a living as a cow broker, how the place where he grew up has been transformed, and what its like to raise his own children there.	The New Yorker	00:13:24
John Colapinto on the business of naming	Blake Eskin talks with John Colapinto, about the art and science of brand names and Lexicon Branding, the company behind names such as BlackBerry, PowerBook and Swiffer.	The New Yorker	00:12:58
Jenny Diski on shoplifting	Jenny Diski, reviewer of Rachel Shteir's new cultural history of shoplifting, "The Steal," talks about her own history of shoplifting, why people assume that women shoplift more than men, and the recent London riots.	The New Yorker	00:14:52
Ariel Levy on sexual revolutions	Blake Eskin talks with Ariel Levy about Wilhelm Reich's idea that sexual health leads to social health, why all sexual revolutions think they have discovered something new, and how we're not as sexually fulfilled as we appear.	The New Yorker	00:12:40
Drawing Manhattan, before and after 9/11	In 1998, Matteo Pericoli started drawing the Manhattan skyline, on two thirty-seven-foot scrolls. On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, he talks about The City, his drawing process, and how the skyline has changed.	The New Yorker	00:13:47
Working with Haruki Murakami	Blake Eskin talks with Murakami's longtime translator, Jay Rubin, about how he became a Murakami fan and translator, the reception in Japan of Murakami's latest novel, "1Q84," and why Rubin doesn't recommend reading literature in translation.	The New Yorker	00:12:09
Listening to Shabazz Palaces.	Sasha Frere-Jones talks with Blake Eskin about Shabazz Palaces, a hip-hop group led by the rapper Ishmael Butler, Butler's early work with Digable Planets and about jazz in early-nineties hip-hop.	The New Yorker	00:12:24
Katharine and E. B. White's Salt-Water Farm	Blake Eskin visits the farm in Brooklin, Maine, that used to belong to Katharine and E. B. White. The current owner points out features readers of "Charlotte's Web" would recognize.	The New Yorker	00:13:50
Jennifer Hale and the "Mass Effect" trilogy	Tom Bissell talks with Blake Eskin about Hale's performance as Commander Shepard in the "Mass Effect" video games, and why Bissell prefers playing with a female avatar.	The New Yorker	00:12:51
Lucretius and his poem "On the Nature of Things"	Stephen Greenblatt explains how Lucretius and his poem shaped the modern world. He reads a passage, and tells how the poem disappeared and was rediscovered, and the clash between Lucretius' ideas and the Catholic church.	The New Yorker	00:13:46
Illegal immigrants	Suketu Mehta talks with Blake Eskin about why the asylum process encourages embellishment, the ethics of lying to gain asylum, and the multiple identities that illegal immigrants juggle.	The New Yorker	00:14:33
The Freedom Riders.	Calvin Trillin reported on the Freedom Rides, a civil-rights campaign aimed at demonstrating the illegal segregation of interstate bus travel. He talks of his experiences with Blake Eskin.	The New Yorker	00:24:13
The Rwandan national cycling team	Philip Gourevitch talks with Blake Eskin about what the team means for Rwanda and for the individual riders, who were children during the 1994 genocide.	The New Yorker	00:15:17
Ben McGrath and Amy Davidson on Super Sam Fuld	Ben McGrath profiles Sam Fuld, Tampa Bay Rays outfielder. Blake Eskin talks with McGrath and Amy Davidson about how Fuld's physique and style of play hearken back to the '80s, and the agony of being a Mets fan.	The New Yorker	00:13:52
Nicholas Lemann on city living	Nicholas Lemann writes about the blurry line between city and suburbs, and talks with Blake Eskin about what the recent enthusiasm for cities misses, and what- if anything - makes cities special.	The New Yorker	00:15:16
On The Talk of the Town	Blake Eskin talks with the editor and writers of "Talk of The Town" about the Visit, the Amateur Ichthyologist, the Past Sports Lives of Important Political Figures and why there aren't more Talk stories about hockey.	The New Yorker	00:15:05
Nabokov's correspondence with his wife	Blake Eskin talks with Brian Boyd and Olga Voronina about letters written by Vladimir Nabokov to his wife, Vera, while on a college lecture tour in 1942.	The New Yorker	00:14:40
Ariel Levy on Italian men, women, and prime ministers	Ariel Levy writes about Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, embroiled in a growing sex scandal. She talks with Blake Eskin about Berlusconi's rise to power, gender politics in Italy, and why disclosures about his sexual behavior may have exhausted the tolerance of the nation.	The New Yorker	00:13:38
Patients who deny their mental illness	Rachel Aviv talks with Blake Eskin about Linda Bishop, a mentally ill woman who would not admit she was sick.	The New Yorker	00:15:02
Lab-grown meat	This week Michael Specter writes about the progress scientists have made in developing in-vitro meat. He talks to Blake Eskin about the strong arguments in favor of lab meat and overcoming initial reactions to the concept.	The New Yorker	00:12:49
Obesity and Snacking	John Seabrook discusses Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo's CEO, and how the country's largest food and beverage company is trying to make healthier snacks and soft drinks, and whether the company is concerned with the health of consumers or its own longevity.	The New Yorker	00:14:02
Kelefa Sanneh on reality television	Kelefa Sanneh talks with Blake Eskin about the evolution of the genre, why unscripted television gets so little respect, and what reality shows reveal about society.	The New Yorker	00:14:49
Lauren Collins on the British royal wedding	Lauren Collins talks with Blake Eskin about whether the British are more excited about the wedding or getting a long weekend, and how American attitudes toward the Royal Family and toward the Middletons differ from British ones.	The New Yorker	00:15:32
Alex Ross listens to Wagner's "Die Walkure"	This week Alex Ross writes about Richard Wagner's "Ring," focussing in on ten haunting measures from Act II of "Die Walkure," the second opera of the four-part cycle.	The New Yorker	00:15:36
The Return of "Upstairs Downstairs"	Nancy Franklin reviews the sequel to "Upstairs Downstairs." She talks with Blake Eskin about her fondness for the original "Upstairs Downstairs" and how the British imports on Masterpiece Theater were once the best thing on television.	The New Yorker	00:13:01
The Fpic Fantasy of George R. R. Martin	Laura Miller writes about the epic fantasy author George R. R. Martin and his relationship with his fans, who have been waiting for his latest novel in the series "A Song of Ice and Fire" for almost six years.	The New Yorker	00:13:01
Adam Gopnik on intelligence	This week Adam Gopnik looks at memory, intelligence, and the shrinking advantage humans have over computers. Gopnik and Blake Eskin examine the layers of tone and meaning in human speech that are hard for computers to understand.	The New Yorker	00:15:37
Alexandra Jacobs on Spanx	Alexandra Jacobs profiles Sara Blakely, founder of the shapewear company Spanx. Blakely has used humor, sex, and new technology to make foundation garments for women stylish again.	The New Yorker	00:11:49
Ian Frazier on his urban wanderings	Ian Frazier on his urban wanderings.	The New Yorker	00:12:39
Abbas Kiarostami Films	David Denby on the films of Abbas Kiarostami.	The New Yorker	00:16:32
Turkish soccer fans	Elif Batuman reveals secrets of Turkish soccer fans.	The New Yorker	00:13:57
The Asteroid Threat	Tad Friend discusses the asteroid threat.	The New Yorker	00:15:17
The Internet revolution	Adam Gopnik discusses the Internet revolution.	The New Yorker	00:14:32
Paul Haggis and Scientology	Lawrence Wright talks about Paul Haggis and Scientology.	The New Yorker	00:15:49
The death of my wife	Francisco Goldman on the death of his wife.	The New Yorker	00:15:27
The tiger-mother furor	Elizabeth Kolbert and Evan Osnos on the tiger-mother furor.	The New Yorker	00:14:59
Sri Lanka	Jon Lee Anderson on Sri Lanka.	The New Yorker	00:12:45
Psychoanalysis in China	Even Osnos on psychoanalysis in China.	The New Yorker	00:14:33
The state of dessert.	Adam Gopnik holds forth on the state of dessert.	The New Yorker	00:14:01
A Peace Corps volunteer	Peter Hessler tells of a Peace Corps volunteer's experience in Washington.	The New Yorker	00:12:24
Chinese state capitalism	John Cassidy on how Chinese state capitalism takes after the U.S. and Europe.	The New Yorker	00:16:07
Marina Poplavskaya	Gay Talese on the soprano Marina Poplavskaya.	The New Yorker	00:14:57
The unhinged power of Keith Moon	James Wood on the unhinged power of Keith Moon.	The New Yorker	00:14:30
The underground food movement	Burkhard Bilger on the underground food movement.	The New Yorker	00:14:40
Cleopatra	Judith Thurman discusses Cleopatra.	The New Yorker	00:12:09
Writer Wang Meng	Jianying Zha on the writer Wang Meng.	The New Yorker	00:18:38
Roz Chast	Roz Chast speaks of her career at The New Yorker.	The New Yorker	00:14:28
Tories' new philosophy.	Lauren Collins reflects on the Tories' new philosophy.	The New Yorker	00:10:49
Tijuana police chief's campaign against corruption	William Finnegan on a Tijuana police chief's campaign against corruption.	The New Yorker	00:14:54
Henry Bromell on writing	Henry Bromell on writing, from short stories to "Rubicon."	The New Yorker	00:18:50
The Dalai Lama	Evan Osnos discusses the Dalai Lama.	The New Yorker	00:15:43
Staging "The Great Gatsby"	Rebecca Mead on staging F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."	The New Yorker	00:13:39
The pleasure of parody	Louis Menand on the pleasure of parody.	The New Yorker	00:13:39
Roland Barthes, writer and son.	Judith Thurman discusses Roland Barthes, the writer and the son.	The New Yorker	00:11:07
A Reporting Life	Lillian Ross remembers Hemingway, Salinger, and sixty-five years at The New Yorker.	The New Yorker	00:14:29
Living with face blindness	Oliver Sacks on living with face blindness.	The New Yorker	00:13:51
Buying a car in New York	Patricia Marx on buying a car in New York.	The New Yorker	00:11:28
The changing role of record labels	Sasha Frere-Jones on the changing role of record labels.	The New Yorker	00:12:47
Video games	Nicholson Baker examines video games.	The New Yorker	00:16:21
The music of Brad Paisley	Kelefa Sanneh on the music of Brad Paisley.	The New Yorker	00:16:16
The slaughter of songbirds in Europe	Jonathan Franzen on the slaughter of songbirds in Europe.	The New Yorker	00:14:31
David Ortiz - Boston Red Sox D.H.	Ben McGrath on David Ortiz's career as a designated hitter for the Boston Red Sox.	The New Yorker	00:10:06
North Korean refugees	Barbara Demick on the experiences of North Korean refugees.	The New Yorker	00:15:12
Rebecca Mead on Playgrounds	Rebecca Mead speaks about how playground design affects our children's brains.	The New Yorker	00:13:00
Calvin Tomkins on Roger Federer	Calvin Tomkins on Roger Federer.	The New Yorker	00:12:40
The World Cup	Hampton Sides, Daniel Alarcon, and Burkhard Bilger on the World Cup.	The New Yorker	00:16:55
The 20 Under 40 list	Fiction editors Deborah Treisman and Cressida Leyshon on The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 list.	The New Yorker	00:14:43
The allure of the circus	Joan Acocella on the allure of the circus.	The New Yorker	00:13:21
The Mexican crime cartel La Familia	William Finnegan on the Mexican crime cartel La Familia.	The New Yorker	00:16:00
Los Tigres del Norte	Alec Wilkinson on Los Tigres del Norte.	The New Yorker	00:16:31
Movie music	Alex Ross discusses the history and future of movie music.	The New Yorker	00:16:53
Adopting a Haitian child	John Seabrook on adopting a Haitian child after the earthquake.	The New Yorker	00:17:43
Living abroad and returning to America	Peter Hessler and Evan Osnos on living abroad and returning to America.	The New Yorker	00:14:53
Saul Bellow's Letters	Janis Bellow on the letters of her late husband, Saul Bellow.	The New Yorker	00:11:06
Lost Turkish recipes	Elif Batuman on rediscovering lost Turkish recipes.	The New Yorker	00:11:37
Balkan jewel thieves	David Samuels investigates a gang of Balkan jewel thieves.	The New Yorker	00:13:37
French culinary movement	Adam Gopnik discusses the French culinary movement Le Fooding.	The New Yorker	00:13:28
Marriage counselling	Jill Lepore on the disturbing origins of marriage counselling.	The New Yorker	00:11:04
Lacrosse and writing	John McPhee on the sport of lacrosse and (the non-sport of) writing.	The New Yorker	00:11:36
The music of Esperanza Spalding	John Colapinto on the music of Esperanza Spalding.	The New Yorker	00:13:44
Marina Abramovic	Judith Thurman on the work of Marina Abramovic.	The New Yorker	00:14:56
On depression	Louis Menand looks at the contradictory ways we understand and treat depression.	The New Yorker	00:13:43
Twitter	George Packer and Susan Orlean on Twitter.	The New Yorker	00:12:41
The heroes of the civil-rights era	David Remnick discusses the heroes of the civil-rights era.	The New Yorker	00:13:51
The gospel singer Tonex	Kelefa Sanneh discusses the gospel singer Tonex.	The New Yorker	00:16:55
Meghan O'Rourke on grief	The cultural history of mourning and grief.	The New Yorker	00:13:22
Daniel Mendelsohn on memoirs	Personal confessions, from St. Augustine to James Frey.	The New Yorker	00:14:15
Claudia Roth Pierpont on the Arabic novel	Claudia Roth Pierpont on the Arabic novel in translation.	The New Yorker	00:11:46
John Cassidy on the Chicago School and the financial crisis	How economists are responding to the financial crisis.	The New Yorker	00:14:07
David Denby and Richard Brody on their favorite films of the decade	David Denby and Richard Brody discuss their favorite films of the year and the decade.	The New Yorker	00:15:43
Fen Montaigne on Adelie penguins	Fen Montaigne discusses the five months he spent working alongside the ecologist Bill Fraser, studying the declining Adelie penguin populations in Antarctica.	The New Yorker	00:12:19
John McWhorter on Louis Armstrong	John McWhorter discusses Louis Armstrong's unchanging musical style, the controversy over his public persona, and the underestimation of his genius.	The New Yorker	00:13:54
Platon on photographing world leaders	Platon discusses his portfolio of portraits of world leaders.	The New Yorker	00:09:20
Ariel Levy on Caster Semenya	Ariel Levy discusses the controversy over Caster Semenya's gender, and the implications of her story for sports and society.	The New Yorker	00:13:40
Calvin Trillin on Poutine	Calvin Trillin and Blake Eskin visit the New York restaurant T Poutine to sample and discuss poutine, a Canadian concoction of French fries, gravy, and cheese curds.	The New Yorker	00:10:27
Margaret Talbot on nightmares	Margaret Talbot discusses imagery-rehearsal therapy, which helps patients to edit their nightmares into more benign dreams	The New Yorker	00:12:45
Gaza in Ruins	Lawrence Wright talks to Blake Eskin about the violent conflict between Israel and Hamas and the difficulties he faced in reporting.	The New Yorker	00:11:45
Drag and Drop	Robert Mankoff and Zachary Kanin discuss Cartoon Kit, the Caption Contest, vampires, and how both guests found their voices as cartoonists.	The New Yorker	00:10:56
Is Hip-Hop Dead?	Sasha Frere-Jones discusses the future of hip-hop.	The New Yorker	00:10:30
Bad Behavior	Rebecca Mead and Daniel Zalewski discuss books for children and young adults.	The New Yorker	00:13:24
Better Living	Jill Lepore talks about the pioneers of scientific management, Frederick Winslow Taylor and Frank and Lillian Gilbreth.	The New Yorker	00:13:26
Interiors	Robert Polidori discusses the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations.	The New Yorker	00:09:23
The Accused	Adam Gopnik talks about Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army officer arrested in 1894 for espionage in France.	The New Yorker	00:14:18
Fall Preview	John Lahr, Peter Schjeldahl, and Nancy Franklin discuss the fall season's theatre, art, and television highlights.	The New Yorker	00:09:05
Happiness Delivered	Alexandra Jacobs talks about the online shoe store Zappos.	The New Yorker	00:12:22
The Willingham Fire	David Grann talks about Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas in 2004 for setting a fire that killed his three children.	The New Yorker	00:13:40
Doubles	Burkhard Bilger talks about Bob and Mike Bryan, identical twins who are champion tennis partners.	The New Yorker	00:13:43
Imaginary Music	Alex Ross talks about the fictional music of composers in literature.	The New Yorker	00:13:43
Commodity Rock	John Seabrook talks about the history of the rock-concert industry.	The New Yorker	00:12:50
Going East	Ian Frazier discusses his road trip across Siberia.	The New Yorker	00:14:26
Alternative Conservative	Kelefa Sanneh on talk-show host Michael Savage.	The New Yorker	00:14:29
The Kindness of Strangers	Larissa MacFarquhar on the issues surrounding kidney donation.	The New Yorker	00:12:02
Bad Habits	Paul Rudnick on Hollywood and nuns.	The New Yorker	00:12:48
Rules of Engagement	Raffi Khatchadourian on a war crime in Iraq.	The New Yorker	00:16:09
The Parent Trap	Jill Lepore on parenthood.	The New Yorker	00:12:29
Book of Love	Lauren Collins on Nora Roberts and the history of the romance novel.	The New Yorker	00:11:48
Summer Sounds	Sasha Frere-Jones shares his all-time favorite summer jam, and discusses some of the current songs and artists he's excited about.	The New Yorker	00:10:38
Creative Tension	Louis Menand talks about writing workshops.	The New Yorker	00:11:53
The Human Factor	Elizabeth Kolbert on the history of mass extinctions.	The New Yorker	00:11:42
Accounting for the Meltdown	Nick Paumgarten on understanding the financial crisis.	The New Yorker	00:11:56
Remembering J. G. Ballard	Tom Shone discusses J. G. Ballard's novels and the films they inspired.	The New Yorker	00:11:52
Rwanda in Recovery	Philip Gourevitch on how a country of murderers and survivors manage to live together.	The New Yorker	00:12:38
Consecrated Bronze	Elif Batuman on the return of Harvard's bells to Russia.	The New Yorker	00:11:21
Pets Gone Wild	Burkhard Bilger on Florida’s problem with invasive exotic wildlife.	The New Yorker	00:10:13
Pimp and Circumstance	Kelefa Sanneh on the comedian Katt Williams.	The New Yorker	00:12:44
Oranges and Lemons	Peter Schjeldahl on the emotional power of painting.	The New Yorker	00:10:39
Trash Talk	Evan Osnos on the economic slowdown in China.	The New Yorker	00:11:07
Show Trial	Keith Gessen discusses the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya.	The New Yorker	00:13:25
Fatal Attraction	Joan Acocella discusses the enduring appeal of vampires	The New Yorker	00:13:16
Witty and Brash	Sasha Frere-Jones talks about the music and fame of Lily Allen.	The New Yorker	00:11:35
Hell on Wheels	Ariel Levy discusses Lamar Van Dyke and the world of lesbian separatists.	The New Yorker	00:11:35
Found Sentences	Louis Menand talks about the writer Donald Barthelme.	The New Yorker	00:14:24
The Chinese Dream	Evan Osnos talks about African merchants in China.	The New Yorker	00:11:29
Moral Arguments	David Remnick interviews the Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister, Tzipi Livni, at Kennedy Airport on January 17th.	The New Yorker	00:11:50
Doom Boom	Ben McGrath talks about predictions of economic and social collapse, the history of doomsaying, and the future of the American Dream.	The New Yorker	00:10:20
War of Words	Judith Thurman talks about the importance of Scrabble to her own family, and her adventures playing online.	The New Yorker	00:09:25
Face Time	Martin Schoeller and Steve Pyke discuss photography.	The New Yorker	00:11:54
Joy Revision	Ariel Levy discusses The Joy of Sex and its relevancy.	The New Yorker	00:11:36
All in the Family	Zadie Smith writes about comedy and her family.	The New Yorker	00:10:34
Long Hot Summer	Wendell Steavenson discusses the tensions between Georgia and Russia, and how Georgia has changed since she lived there, in the late nineteen-nineties.	The New Yorker	00:11:06
Voice of the Left	Larissa MacFarquhar discusses Naomi Klein and her book "The Shock Doctrine."	The New Yorker	00:09:48
Brutal Honesty	James Wood discusses V. S. Naipaul.	The New Yorker	00:10:40
Strange Brews	Burkhard Bilger talks about the rise of extreme beer.	The New Yorker	00:12:15
Moving On	George Packer on what to look for in the next Administration, and whether the Internet's pro-Obama movement will continue to support him as President.	The New Yorker	00:15:28
A Fine Mess	John Lanchester on why derivatives are like modernist art and what his father, a banker, would have thought of what finance has become.	The New Yorker	00:10:26
Man and Machine	Bruce McCall on his drawing for the Cartoon Issue, his artistic process, and his career.	The New Yorker	00:08:14
Playing Politics	Kelefa Sanneh and David Denby on the pleasures and perils of political impersonation.	The New Yorker	00:11:31
Better Late	Malcolm Gladwell on genius and precocity.	The New Yorker	00:10:45
Back at the Ranch	Pamela Colloff discusses George W. Bush and Crawford, Texas.	The New Yorker	00:09:44
Speaking for the Trees	Raffi Khatchadourian explains how an illegally harvested tree in Russia can become a toilet seat in an American home.	The New Yorker	00:11:29
Home and Away	Platon on photographing members of the military and their families.	The New Yorker	00:09:48
Elephant in the Room	Adam Gopnik discusses the controversy behind Babar and the books' enduring appeal.	The New Yorker	00:11:30
Role Call	Ariel Levy on Cindy McCain and the women of the 2008 election.	The New Yorker	00:15:01
The Face of the Surge	Steve Coll discusses General David Petraeus's duties in Iraq and his role in information operations.	The New Yorker	00:15:43
Prime Time	The New Yorker's television critic, Nancy Franklin, discusses the Beijing Olympics and why great television is such a rare thing.	The New Yorker	00:14:27
Getting in Tune	In this week's issue, the composer John Adams writes about his time in San Francisco. Here Adams discusses his influences, the pressures of expectation, and the motivation behind his memoir.	The New Yorker	00:17:05
Emotional Profit	In this week's issue, David Grann writes about the French con man Frederic Bourdin. Here Grann discusses Bourdin's deceptions in Europe and the United States and whether he has left behind imposture for good.	The New Yorker	00:15:30
The Dissident	This week in the magazine, Kelefa Sanneh writes about the radio and television host Tavis Smiley. Here Sanneh explains Smiley's wary commentary about Barack Obama and discusses the meaning of Obama's candidacy for African-Americans.	The New Yorker	00:13:03
The California Dream	In this issue of the magazine, David Samuels writes about medical marijuana and its effect on California's pot industry overall. Here Samuels describes how marijuana is grown and sold, and how he went about reporting the story.	The New Yorker	00:10:24
Little Trouble	In this week's issue, Jill Lepore writes about the battle over E. B. White's "Stuart Little." Here Jill Lepore and Roger Angell, E. B. White's stepson and an editor at the magazine, talk about E. B. White's writing, Katharine White's columns about children's literature, the librarian Ann Carroll Moore, and the challenge of writing for children.	The New Yorker	00:15:38
Escalation	Seymour M. Hersh talks about the Bush Administrations secret campaign against Iran.	The New Yorker	00:07:20
Can't Stop	Atul Gawande explores the science behind itching and describes one extreme case of a woman who couldn't stop scratching.	The New Yorker	00:16:45
Mouthing Off	This week, Peter J. Boyer writes about the MSNBC host Keith Olbermann. Here Boyer talks about Olbermann's style and how it contrasts with traditional television news.	The New Yorker	00:14:58
Perfect Pitch	This week, Sasha Frere-Jones writes about Auto-Tune, a pitch-correction software program used in pop music. Here Frere-Jones talks about how Auto-Tune has become a pop-music phenomenon, and demonstrates how it can transform the human voice with the help of the music producer Tom Beaujour.	The New Yorker	00:10:08
In the Bird's Nest	This week in the magazine, Paul Goldberger writes about the architecture of the Beijing Olympics. Here Goldberger talks about Beijing's standout buildings, and the long-term impact that the Olympic games has on host cities.	The New Yorker	00:10:52
Soup Course	In this issue of the magazine, Ian Frazier writes about a Chelsea soup kitchen. Here Frazier talks about his experiences running a writers' workshop at the soup kitchen, and the differences between humor writing and reportage.	The New Yorker	00:14:41
Battle Scars	This week in the magazine, Sue Halpern writes about Virtual Iraq, a treatment for traumatized veterans. Here Halpern talks about how researchers adapted a video game into a simulation of combat experiences, and how soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder react to it.	The New Yorker	00:12:46
Word Bird	This week in the magazine, Margaret Talbot writes about the scientist Irene Pepperberg and her work with Alex the parrot. Here Talbot talks about what Pepperberg's research reveals about animal language and cognition, with samples of Alex speaking.	The New Yorker	00:13:20
Human Resources	In this issue of the magazine, William Finnegan writes about young women from Moldova who were forced into prostitution in other countries. Here Finnegan talks about the transnational networks of human trafficking and the efforts to help their victims.	The New Yorker	00:10:50
The End of the Road	Burkhard Bilger talks about the history of field recording, and introduces samples from the folklorist Art Rosenbaum's recordings.	The New Yorker	00:14:35
Toy Story	Jonathan Franzen talks about his journey to China.	The New Yorker	00:13:24
Star-Crossed	Joan Acocella dissects "Dancing with the Stars."	The New Yorker	00:10:02
Extra Innings	This week, Ben McGrath writes about the retired baseball player Lenny Dykstra and his new magazine, The Players Club. Here, McGrath discusses Dykstra's efforts to broaden the horizons of retired athletes.	The New Yorker	00:12:40
Take a Card	This week in the magazine, Adam Gopnik writes about modern magic. Here Gopnik talks about the future of magic and compares the magician's art to the writer's craft.	The New Yorker	00:14:06
Cape Crusader	This week in the magazine, Michael Chabon writes about what superheroes should wear. Here Chabon talks about the difficulties of dressing superheroes off the comic-book page, writing about clothes, and turning books into movies.	The New Yorker	00:13:31
Confessions	This week in the magazine, in an excerpt from her book, "The Bishop's Daughter," Honor Moore writes about her father, the Episcopal bishop Paul Moore, his faith, and his secret. Here Moore talks about her father's public service and private life.	The New Yorker	00:16:10
Counting Carbon	This week in the magazine and online, Michael Specter writes about the fine line between morality and science in dealing with carbon pollution. Here Specter talks about the possibility of using economics to change behavior and cut emissions.	The New Yorker	00:15:42
From Page to Stage	George Packer talks about "Betrayed," a play he adapted from his The New Yorker article of the same title.	The New Yorker	00:13:25
Thoroughly Modern Tilley	The New Yorkers art editor, Francoise Mouly, talks with Matt Dellinger about the nearly three hundred submissions to the Eustace Tilley Contest.	The New Yorker	00:10:44
Words to Sing	The New Yorker's poetry editor, Paul Muldoon, talks with Matt Dellinger about rock and roll and the state of poetry.	The New Yorker	00:17:10
Armed and Dangerous	This week in the magazine, Steve Coll writes about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and the growing violence in Pakistan. Here Coll talks with Matt Dellinger about the country's insurgency, the influence of the Taliban, and President Musharraf's changing role.	The New Yorker	00:18:42
What We Know	This week in the magazine, Lawrence Wright writes about Mike McConnell, the director of National Intelligence. Here Wright talks with Matt Dellinger about McConnell's ideas for reform, his views on privacy issues and torture, and the threats the intelligence community may confront in the future.	The New Yorker	00:18:03
Jury Duty	David Denby talks about the director Otto Preminger and the films of 2007.	The New Yorker	00:15:00
Salvage City	Burkhard Bilger talks about the mysterious past and future of 211 Pearl Street, the man who tried to save the building, and preserving old New York.	The New Yorker	00:15:20
Between Pauses	John Lahr talks about what he learned from the playwright Harold Pinter, and how Pinter changed theatre.	The New Yorker	00:14:41
Gray Matter	Malcolm Gladwell on race and I.Q.	The New Yorker	00:16:13
Freshman Slump	Nick Paumgarten on Eliot Spitzer's difficult first year as Governor, and whether he's likely to change.	The New Yorker	00:13:08
In the Genes	Michael Specter talks about ancient, deadly viruses that are being brought back from extinction, what these retroviruses can teach biologists about how humans evolved, and how they may hold the key to conquering AIDS and other diseases.	The New Yorker	00:10:56
Freak Show	Gahan Wilson, who has been contributing cartoons to the magazine for more than three decades, talks with cartoon editor Robert Mankoff about how he got started, the legacy of Charles Addams, and his singular comic point of view.	The New Yorker	00:13:21
Friends and Enemies	Jon Lee Anderson talks about how the troop surge is working in the Baghdad suburb of Ghazaliya, and the activities and alliances that have accompanied a reduction in violence.	The New Yorker	00:16:54
Courtside	Jeffrey Toobin on the recent memoir by the Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and on his own book "The Nine."	The New Yorker	00:12:30
The Green Pirates	Raffi Khatchadourian talks about high-seas vigilante Paul Watson and his thirty-year crusade to save the oceans.	The New Yorker	00:15:30
All Business	This week in the magazine, The New Yorkers Washington correspondent, Ryan Lizza, writes about the cultures that shaped Mitt Romney and the candidates attempt to cast himself as a conservative. Here, with Blake Eskin, Lizza talks about Romney and the state of his Presidential campaign.	The New Yorker	00:14:49
Lost Soul	This week in the magazine, The New Yorker's pop-music critic, Sasha Frere-Jones, writes about how indie-rock bands have strayed from the origins of rock and roll. Here Frere-Jones talks with Matt Dellinger about the loss of miscegenation in American music, with clips of relevant songs.	The New Yorker	00:14:59
Waiting to Secede	This week in the magazine, William Finnegan reports on the push for independence in Kosovo and the upcoming elections there. Here, with Matt Dellinger, Finnegan discusses the recent history of the region and the outlook for an independent Kosovo.	The New Yorker	00:16:37
Feel the Noise	Alex Ross talks about his new book, his blog, and the New Yorker Festival.	The New Yorker	00:15:33
His Next Move	David Remnick interviews Garry Kasparov, the Russian chess grandmaster and political activist, about the Putin regime and Russia's future.	The New Yorker	00:21:48
Downtown Girl	Dana Goodyear talks with Blake Eskin about Kim Hastreiter and the downtown-life-style magazine Paper, and about her own experience, living in Los Angeles.	The New Yorker	00:15:53
Too Good to Be True	This week, Mark Singer writes about the incredible career of the pianist Joyce Hatto. Here Singer talks with Matt Dellinger about Hatto, with clips of music and archival interviews.	The New Yorker	00:15:40
Hungry for Home	Jane Kramer talks about her kitchen in Italy and eating with the cookbook writer Claudia Roden.	The New Yorker	00:15:40
What You Sow	John Seabrook talks about the worlds first global seed bank and the importance of biological diversity.	The New Yorker	00:13:13
The Dragon-Slayer	Peter J. Boyer talks about the unique appeal of Rudy Giuliani.	The New Yorker	00:14:20
Fade to Black	David Denby talks about the work of Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni.	The New Yorker	00:12:30
Bearish on Bees	Elizabeth Kolbert talks about her back-yard hive and the fate of the honeybee.	The New Yorker	00:08:30
Hard to Believe	David Remnick discusses Avraham Burg's inflammatory comments and the current mood of Israel.	The New Yorker	00:12:18
Beyond the Red Mosque	William Dalrymple discusses Pakistan's uncertain future.	The New Yorker	00:11:07
Afghan Ambush	Jon Lee Anderson talks about a battle with the Taliban in the poppy fields of Afghanistan	The New Yorker	00:11:35
A Wealthy Suitor	Ken Auletta discusses Rupert Murdoch's WSJ takeover bid.	The New Yorker	00:12:14

Subscribe to This PodCast Series! It's FREE!!

Copy this URL: http://www.airsla.org/broadcasts/nyoutloudrss.xml and paste it into Podcatcher software such as Juice or iTunes,

If you don't have a Podcatcher, check out the recommendations on our Podcatcher Page.

AIRS-LA: Audio Internet Reading Service of Los Angeles

New Yorker - Out Loud

Go To: PodCast Table Subscribe

Subscribe to This PodCast Series! It's FREE!!

Controls

Our Sponsors

AIRS Information

Resources

Donate Through PayPal!

Shop Through iGive!