Our Struggle
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Wagner By The Park (with special guest Greg Jackson )
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's a repulsively glorious fall day in Brooklyn. Seeking respite from his upstate rustication, Greg Jackson comes to the city to ask us, "Wh...
About A Guy, With Some Guys (Featuring Willy Staley, Dean Kissick, and Sam Kriss)
18 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're so back, as they say, and we've recruited some struggle favorites to join us for a most unseemly return. We gather in Park Slope with 3 ...
P***Y For the Meter With Max Lawton
29 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Drew finally lifts his editing embargo and the show recently described as "your boyfriend's favorite podcast" returns with a special gue...
White Chocolate Guys (ft. Sam Kriss)
22 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode with cult fave 6'4" writer SAM KRISS, all motifs are on the table - literally. Drew has been heroically managing dry January by replac...
No One’s Beautiful and We’re All Gonna Die W/Alex Dimitrov
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Love is boring and breakups are banal. Flight attendants are gay and have extraordinarily high body counts. We’re calling for a New Sensualism! Have...
Well, There You Have It (ft. Andrew Martin)
11 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're back! Really! Having revived ourselves with grapefruit Spindrift and coffee following our lackluster 2nd anniversary show, we invited Andrew 'ac...
Vagaries and Vicissitudes: A 2nd Anniversary Call-in Special
21 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As that haunting summer feeling takes hold, Lauren and Drew languidly reflect on another year of podcasting and readerly fellowship. Along the way the...
Colonel Mustard with the Gerbil (ft. Jon Lindsey)
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Good news: it's our first in-person recording in half a year. Bad news (a la Teddy St. Aubyn): Audio interface ran out of battery so it cuts off sorry...
Bildongsroman (ft. Gary Shteyngart)
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're back! We're talkin schlong! We're on Patreon, finally! It's season 4....after taking a month and half off from the show to work on their tans, L...
Cafe Society (ft. Felix Biederman)
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We're back! And joined by Felix Biederman, a promising young podcaster recently arrived in Los Angeles whom we condescended to let on the show. Althou...
BONUS EP: The Northman (ft. Alec Niedenthal)
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of people when they realize that Drew is not on this episode are going to say I betrayed him but what you need to know is that we're actually PO...
Rhythm Time (ft. James Griffiths)
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Finally! It's Rhythm Time! To discuss one of the most notorious and worst written passages of Book 2, we invited back our homie James Griffiths, the W...
Conception (ft. Andrew Lipstein)
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back! This is a classic struggle, in which we were joined by our new friend, yet another Jewish writer named Andrew. You can buy his (Andrew L...
Love Qua Love (ft. Oded Even Or and Krithika Varagur)
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In which we discuss Mating (Norman Rush's luminous 1991 novel), and mating. Happy Valentine's Day PS. Please buy our mug
Clown Hour
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alright folks - we finally got equipment for IRL recording but the catch is, we did too much IRL hanging out this weekend so by the time we figured ou...
Fanny and Alexander and Karl Ove (Xmas special)
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
THIS HOLIDAY SEASON, HELP US WORSHIP MAMMON! Link to store ---- In this end of the year Christmas special, our two Hebraic hosts convene to discuss th...
Free Associating at the Dog Park (ft. Kyle Chayka)
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
He was late; he always is. - Kyle C. doesn't seem too put off my his riff about misogyny in the kitchen, at least. - My Struggle, minimalist or maxima...
Beyond the Discourse of the Wind (ft. Mason)
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A rainy Sunday night in ---. Two broadcasters, a man and a woman recently arrived from Central Park, convene in the cramped kitchen of the man's lodgi...
Live from Family Brooklyn (ft. Willy Staley)
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
October 31, 2021 The autumn has been long; and the weather, a mood. The leaves are perfectly gold here on the Gold Coast (that swathe of Brooklyn lini...
Le Quotidian Pain (ft. Dasha Nekrasova)
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
She showed up smoking marlboro lights and talking about a ribbon store nearby. This was on west 38 street, where I’d rented, for 250 dollars, a stud...
Intimate Drizzle (ft. Emmie Francis and Luke Brown)
09 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I have to go to Dayton Ohio in a second to visit my Aunt Bunny but long story short it was the afternoon of the Brooklyn Tote Bag Fest, Drew took shel...
1ST ANNIVERSARY CALL-IN SHOW (PT. 2)
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Drew is shirtless and eating 5% Fage. Lauren walks us through her coffee making process. We respond to a series of increasingly deranged missives and ...
1ST ANNIVERSARY CALL-IN SHOW (PT. 1)
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Well we were GOING to do this all in one go but then Drew supposedly got recognized at local watering hole Clandestino by a listener who took him to t...
Free On The Inside (ft. Donald Morrison)
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We're back! After their triumphant NYC debut, Lauren is back in DC, Drew's moved into Morningside Heights with his Jane Goodall-fancying roommate, and...
Vanguard of the Supplicants (ft. Torrey Peters)
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We were a little perplexed when Torrey Peters came groveling before us to come on the show. She’d written a best-selling novel with big topical them...
Longing, Death, Form (Season 1 Sparknotes: Themes and Motifs)
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of their newfangled fame, Lauren and Drew look back at the themes and characters of Season 1 and attend to correspondence from fans and de...
Sheepdog Brain (ft. Dean Kissick)
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Surely one of our most Knausgaardian episodes yet - we spent four hours last Sunday afternoon - a rainy, unseasonably cold day in the mid-Atlantic - c...
Minutt for Minutt
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
WE ARE BACK! After a dire situation earlier this month, Our Struggle returns, as lo-fi and perfunctory as ever! It's just us boys again this ep but be...
Seersucker Semiotics (Trauma Processing Special)
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After a run of well-received episodes with prestigious guests and a Bookforum mention we are ready for our slow decline! It's just us boys on this pod...
Johnson's Johnson (ft. James Griffiths)
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
IT'S THE RETURN OF THE WELSH WARRIOR! The Duke of Cardiff himself, prestigious CNN journalist James Griffiths is back on the pod and folks?? We got a ...
Game of Pricks (struggle)
07 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Drew's cover of our theme song, Guided by Voices' "Game of Pricks", recorded from his desolate boarding school cloister in Pennsburg
Parquet Elegy (ft. Christian Lorentzen)
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our Struggle returns, and this time with highly prestigious guest Christian Lorentzen! In addition to being our new token Gen X friend, Christian is a...
In The Land Of The PSYOPs
17 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After a nearly two month hiatus, Our Struggle returns! Lauren and Drew are back and spicier than ever, delivering for you our timely review of KOK's n...
Taking the K-pill ft. James Griffiths
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Thanksgiving (and to our Romanian listeners: happy thursday!) Last week we welcomed our friend, Hong Kong-based CNN correspondent James Griffit...
Nut cheese (struggle session 1.1)
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Future recipient of the Kamala Harris Grant for Literary Podcasts is back! In this episode we finally get into the belly of the mackerel with a scene-...
Come From Away ft. John Cullen
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The struggle continues in the third episode of OS as we attempt to bridge the America/Canada cultural divide in a conversation as wide-ranging as the ...
Salmon Diplomacy ft. Brendan O'Kane
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's our sophomore slump! In the second episode of Our Struggle, we welcome guest Brendan O'Kane, a renown sinologist and literary translator who has ...
Our Struggle To Start A Podcast ft. Robert Rust (a Real Norwegian)
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
NOTE TO LISTENERS: DREW'S AUDIO GETS BETTER IN THE SECOND HALF I PROMISE Call this episode the opposite of Norwegian cuisine because boy is it SP...
TRAILER - OUR STRUGGLE TO PRONOUNCE "KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD"
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
IN this preview our friend Rob (a real Norwegian) teaches us how to say the great man's name in the AUTHENTIC style of the fjord peoples