Lapham’s Quarterly
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A magazine of history and ideas.
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Joined October 2009
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.
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This week on the podcast, Donovan Hohn hosts a two-part episode all about Mark Twain.
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“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.”
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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
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This week on the podcast, we focus on the making of our first issue, States of War.
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“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.”
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Listen to the latest episode of The World in Time, in which Donovan Hohn speaks with Francine Prose.
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“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.
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@donovanhohn The problems of telling the truth are: It’s not easy. It takes a great deal of courage. I can remember that during the time when I was the editor of Harper’s, my way of trying to find the truth was to hear it in the strength and the voice of the writer.
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In this first episode, @donovanhohn announces LQ’s summer plans, shares excerpts from an address Lewis delivered at Bard College in 2011, pays tribute to Lapham the essayist, and gives an account of the months preceding and following Lewis’ death in 2024.
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We’re excited to debut the new season of The World in Time today.
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@donovanhohn “It’s more important than ever that this magazine survives. It acknowledges the importance of history and art and thought — all things that seem to be threatened now.”
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