Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episode 56: Evelyn McDonnell on Joan Didion
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Evelyn McDonnell’s The World According to Joan Didion, readers will find an intimate explorati...
Episode 55: Adaptation with Cord Jefferson & Percival Everett
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We have a special edition of The Big Table Podcast on today’s episode. Presenting Adaptation, th...
Episode 54: Prudence Peiffer
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Prudence Peiffer’s first book, The Slip, is the never-before-told story of an obscure little stree...
Episode 53: Two Poets in Conversation
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As we prime our book club model for post-COVID growth, we are programming a couple of longer late-su...
Episode 52: A Chapter about Slime
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
File Under: Slime by Christopher Michlig — a cultural history of Slime — was recently published ...
Episode 51: Lost Objects: 50 Stories About the Things We Miss & Why They Matter
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For Big Table episode 51, editors Joshua Glenn & Rob Walker discuss their latest book, Lost Objects...
Episode 50: dublab: Live from NeueHouse
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are on episode 50! Thank you all for listening along over the last couple of years. This one is s...
Episode 49: Tim Carpenter
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To Photograph Is To Learn How To Die: An Essay with Digressions by Tim Carpenter is a book-length e...
Episode 48: Steven Heller
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
THE INTERVIEW:After 100 books on design, Steven Heller has given us a coming-of-age memoir. The awar...
Episode 47: Bruce Adams
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It is fitting that Bruce Adams’s new book, the sardonically-titled You’re with Stupid: kranky, C...
Episode 46: Darryl Pinckney's Literary Education
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Darryl Pinckney arrived at Columbia University in New York City in the early 1970s and had the oppor...
Episode 45: Nicole Rudick on Niki de Saint Phalle
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Known best for her exuberant, often large-scale sculptural works celebrating the abundance and compl...
Episode 44: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political turmoil and violence...
Episode 43: Hua Hsu
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Interview:In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken—his passion for Dave Matthe...
Episode 42: Nick Drnaso
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Drnaso, acclaimed author of Sabrina, is back with Acting Class, his third book on Drawn & Quar...
Episode 41: Ada Calhoun and Frank O'Hara, Her Father and the New York School of Poets and Painters
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In her latest book, Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me (Grove Atlantic, 2022), Ada Calho...
Episode 40: Alexandra Lange on America’s Malls
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In The Design of Childhood, acclaimed writer, architecture critic, and historian Alexandra Lange unc...
Episode 39: Ben Shattuck on Thoreau
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A 170-plus years ago, Henry David Thoreau began his legendary hermit walks in New England. Many of t...
Episode 38: Paul Morley on Tony Wilson
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To write about Tony Wilson, aka Anthony H. Wilson, is to write about a number of public and private ...
Episode 37: Mark Rozzo on Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward in 1960s L.A.
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Rozzo’s astute and engaging new book Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke H...
Episode 36: Dan Charnas on J Dilla
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The EpisodeJ Dilla—aka James Dewitt Yancey or Jaydee as he was previously known—was a musical ge...
Episode 35: Daniel Efram on Steve Keene
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The InterviewIt’s not hyperbole to say that Steve Keene has produced more original artwork than mo...
Episode 34: Adam Clair on the Elephant 6 Collective
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Clair was barely out of undergrad when he began the manuscript for Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi His...
Episode 33: José Vadi on California
30 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
José Vadi grew up in California’s Inland Empire, but his roots go back to Puerto Rico and Mexico....
Episode 32: Carole Angier on W.G. Sebald
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Interview:Although he did experience some fanfare in his lifetime, German writer, academic, and ...
Episode 31: Robert Gottlieb on Greta Garbo
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Interview: As one of the most influential book editors of his generation—first at Simon & Shuster...
Episode 30: Emily Rapp Black Discusses Frida Kahlo
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After seeing Frida Kahlo’s painting “The Two Fridas,” writer and professor Emily Rapp Black fe...
Episode 29: Jason Jules
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Jules is a writer, blogger, stylist, brand consultant, and devotee of the Ivy look, albeit in ...
Episode 28: Rosecrans Baldwin on Los Angles as City-State
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Interview: Los Angeles is a hundred suburbs in search of a city, or so it’s been said.In his ...
Episode 27: Daniel Oppenheimer on Dave Hickey
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Interview:Dave Hickey was an inspirational character—a writer of essays and songs, an astute a...
Episode 26: Norman Ohler
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Interview: Like many readers in the States, I first became aware of Norman Ohler’s work aft...
Episode 25: Warren Ellis On His First Book Nina Simone’s Gum
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Interview:Musician Warren Ellis’ first book, Nina Simone’s Gum (Faber & Faber, 2021), is a m...
Episode 24: Joan Didion in the 1970s, 1980s & 1990s
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Interview:For over 50 years, Joan Didion, a daughter of California, has been in a league all her...
Episode 23: Matthew Specktor
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Interview:Matthew Specktor grew up in Los Angeles, the son of a talent agent and screenwriter. O...
Episode 22: Kyle Beachy
14 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Interview: Kyle Beachy has been skateboarding for as long as he’s been creating stories. For ...
Episode 21: Nathaniel Rich
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Interview:With the world leaders of the G20 having met about climate change last week and the u...
Episode 20: Peter Mendelsund
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Interview: Peter Mendelsund began his career as a concert pianist, and reinvented himself as ...
Episode 19: Jona Frank
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Interview:On this episode of Big Table, artist and photographer Jona Frank talks with J.C. Gabel...
Episode 18: The Future of the Internet with Damian Bradfield and Joanne McNeil
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Interview:On this episode of Big Table, J.C. Gabel talks with We Transfer co-founder and Chief C...
Episode 17: William Sites on Sun Ra
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Interview: In Sun Ra’s Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City (The University of Chicago Press),...
Episode 16: Lucy Sante
04 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 16: Lucy SanteTHE INTERVIEWSince her debut book, Lowlife: Lures and Snares of Old New York, ...
Episode 14: Brigitte Benkemoun on Dora Maar
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Interview: Brigitte Benkemoun, an investigative reporter in France, buys a vintage address book...
Episode 13: Yuval Taylor on Zora Neale Hurston & Langston Hughes
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Interview: Yuval Taylor’s dual biography Zora & Langston (Norton), documents the lives, times...
Episode 12: Cey Adams & Janette Beckman
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
THE INTERVIEWPhotographer Janette Beckman and artist/art director Cey Adams (who helmed the art depa...
Big Table Episode 11: Mariella Guzzoni on Vincent Van Gogh
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Interview:In Vincent’s Books: Van Gogh and the Writers Who Inspired Him (University of Chica...
Big Table Episode 10: William Deresiewicz
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The InterviewWilliam Deresiewicz documents “how creators are struggling to survive in the age of b...
Big Table Episode 9: Geoff Dyer
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Interview:Geoff Dyer discusses “Broadsword Calling Danny Boy”: Watching ‘Where Eagles Dare...
Big Table Episode 8: George Orwell
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Interview:Two distinguished Orwell scholars, John Rodden and D.J. Taylor, unpack the Orwell en...
Big Table Episode 7: Ninth Street Women
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
THE INTERVIEWJournalist, author and biographer and Mary Gabriel discusses Ninth Street Women, publis...
Big Table Episode 6: Nelson Algren
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Interview: Biographer Colin Asher, discusses the legacy of one of the greatest unknown American...
Big Table Episode 5: Eve Babitz
15 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lili Anolik, whose Vanity Fair profile of the reclusive writer, re-started the Eve Babitz revival, d...
Big Table Episode 4: Carson McCullers
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
EPISODE : 4THE INTERVIEWJenn Shapland discusses her National BookAward-nominated memoir My Autobiogr...
Big Table Episode 3: Nick Ebeling
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
EPISODE : 3THE INTERVIEWAlong for the Ride director Nick Ebeling unpacks the enigma of Dennis Hopper...
Big Table Episode 2: Eddie Glaude, Jr
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
EPISODE: 2THE INTERVIEWProfessor and critic Eddie Glaude, Jr.discusses his latest book Begin Again (...
Big Table Episode 1: Tosh Berman
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
EPISODE: 1 THE INTERVIEWTosh Berman—poet, publisher, bookstorebuyer, record store clerk, son of ...