Episode 18: Maria Bamford, and Fighting for Baltimore
This week, two stories out of Baltimore: “The Wire” creator David Simon drives the city with Jelani Cobb, and David Remnick talks to the thirty-year-old mayoral candidate DeRay Mckesson. Also, Maria B...
19 Feb 201655min
Episode 17: Cuba Gooding, Jr., on O. J. Simpson, and Embracing Insomnia
This week, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Jeffrey Toobin revisit the O.J. Simpson trial, a songwriter hits the campaign trail, and the lifelong night owl Patricia Marx tries some gizmos to help her sleep.
12 Feb 201655min
Episode 16: Laura Poitras, David Bowie’s Last Band, and the Poet Brenda Shaughnessy
The Oscar-winning documentarian Laura Poitras (“Citizenfour”) talks to David Remnick about her first solo museum exhibition, “Astro Noise,” which channels her investigations of government surveillance...
5 Feb 201655min
Episode 15: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Marc Maron, and the Broads of 'Broad City'
This week, stars of the stage, screen, and earbuds. Marc Maron tells Kelefa Sanneh why talking into a mic saved his life. The magazine’s TV critic, Emily Nussbaum, speaks with Abbi Jacobson and Ilana ...
29 Jan 201655min
Episode 14: The Koch Brothers, the Ninth Planet, and an Undefeated Female Boxer
In this episode, three epic battles: Jane Mayer recounts her experience investigating—and being investigated by—Koch Industries; Junot Díaz discusses his fraught relationship with his native Dominican...
22 Jan 201655min
Episode 13: El Chapo v. Flores Brothers, and Jack Handey’s Santa Fe
If Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug kingpin known as El Chapo, is extradited to the United States, he might face two formidable witnesses: identical twin brothers, former drug traffickers on a major sca...
15 Jan 201655min
Episode 12: Sarah Koenig on "Serial," and a Resilient Poet
Sarah Koenig, the host of “Serial,” talks with David Remnick about why her podcast’s success caught her by surprise. Robin Coste Lewis, who recently won a National Book Award, explains how a devastat...
8 Jan 201655min
Episode 11: Life as a Reporter Covering ISIS, and Puppet Sex
What's the funniest way to spook a horse? Cartoonists Matt Diffee and Emily Flake give us a behind-the-scenes glimpse of how jokes get made. Then, comedian Aziz Ansari critiques Hollywood’s casting ha...
1 Jan 201655min
