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In archival audio from 2013, Aidan Flax-Clark interviews Lewis H. Lapham about his childhood reading of Moby-Dick, and about a doomed shipwreck hunt in the early 1960s that Lapham wrote about for The Saturday Evening Post.

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This week’s episode of The World in Time is the first in a series of episodes about The Sea (Summer 2013). Donovan Hohn speaks with Daniel Mendelsohn about his new translation of The Odyssey.

A long-lost obituary of Mark Twain.

While researching his essay “Twain Dreams: The Enigma of Samuel Clemens,” John Jeremiah Sullivan found a lost story Mark Twain had written in 1865 while reporting for the Territorial Enterprise.

A lost Mark Twain passage, now found.

To conclude the episode, John Jeremiah Sullivan shares with World in Time listeners a long lost passage by Twain himself, which Sullivan recovered while searching through a database of digitized Indiana newspapers.

This week on the podcast, Donovan Hohn hosts a two-part episode all about Mark Twain.

A reading in memory of Lewis H. Lapham.

“Ah, the suffering you’ve had, and the courage. To come here alone to the Greek ships.And meet my eye, the man who slaughtered.Your many fine sons! You have a heart of iron.”

Lewis was fond of saying that “all good editors are pirates”—they steal from everyone. And I stole all my best ideas from him on how to start a magazine. — @KiraBrunnerDon

This week on the podcast, we focus on the making of our first issue, States of War.

RT @redwithoutwhy: I translated Baudelaire’s Recueillement for Lapham’s Quarterly:.

Curtis White on Lewis H. Lapham.

“I decided that it was about the destructive effects of lying. Scottie is being lied to, and he learns how to lie to himself in ways that will prevent him from ever being happy.”

Listen to the latest episode of The World in Time, in which Donovan Hohn speaks with Francine Prose.

Read Ben Metcalf on Lewis H. Lapham.

“Lewis understood that without the past, we lose the ability to think productively or even understand the present.” Listen to the latest episode of The World in Time.

@donovanhohn Read @donovanhohn on Lewis H. Lapham.