New Cultural Mixtapes dropped today! I sat down with 2023 @TheBookerPrizes winner @paullynchwriter to talk about his novel PROPHET SONG, the creative process, and the ways artists can strive to rearticulate and reinvent the present. Listen on Spotify:

If you don't have time to read 100 pages in a day, it's a lousy day.

There is absolutely no place for political violence in our democracy. Although we don’t yet know exactly what happened, we should all be relieved that former President Trump wasn’t seriously hurt, and use this moment to recommit ourselves to civility and respect in our politics.

Telling people they didn't see what they saw is not the way to respond to this.

And once again, in an effort to circumvent @elonmusk’s broken algorithm, check out my last post about my Cultural Mixtapes interview with the wonderful @paullynchwriter!

sometimes a hemiola is a wonderful subversion of the barline, and sometimes it’s a pretentious signifier of musical sophistication

New episode of Cultural Mixtapes! I spoke with @rachelkhong about her new novel REAL AMERICANS, upcoming from @AAKnopf. We spoke about her writing process, her approach memory, and amongst other things, her love for persimmons. Listen on Spotify:

@Shapiro_Center @wesleyan_u @NewYorker @xlorentzen @_ryanruby_ Spotify Link here:

New on Cultural Mixtapes with Merve Emre of @Shapiro_Center, @wesleyan_u, and @NewYorker to discuss literary criticism and the future of the humanities. Lots of great references in this one including the work of @xlorentzen, @_ryanruby_ and many more! Listen at the link in bio!

Here is a clip of my Cultural Mixtapes Conversation with @codykeenan. Politics, speechwriting, the Obama years, and finding Grace in our politics today—we covered all this and more. Listen at the link in bio!

With the House of Representatives in disarray, there couldn't be a more apt time for this conversation. For Cultural Mixtapes, I sat down with @codykeenan, former @WhiteHouse speechwriter for @BarackObama to speak about his book GRACE. Listen on Spotify:

Between imagining a technocratic dystopia, and figuring out the role of AI in our future, @vauhinivara and I tackle Chat-GPT, creativity, and her new collection of stories THIS IS SALVAGED, out today from @wwnorton. Listen on Spotify:

Here’s @imjasondiamond talking through his lens into the world. From Seinfeld to suburbia to Bradley Cooper & Leonard Bernstein, we cover it all in my latest Cultural Mixtapes Episode! Listen at the link in bio!

And because @elonmusk’s new algorithm is determined to deprioritize external links from @X 😭, check out my last tweet about the latest Cultural Mixtapes Interview with @imjasondiamond!

This week on Cultural Mixtapes: @imjasondiamond and I try to figure out the suburban vibes. Whether it’s imagining life in a John Hughes movie or being astounded by the emotions in Philip Roth’s New Jersey, we try to understand America through suburbia. https://t.co/tVf7wkrx5k

Last year on Cultural Mixtapes, I spoke to @ZaydDohrn about his award winning @CrookedMedia podcast Mother Country Radicals. Listen on Spotify:

Tejas Srinivasan's comment about his podcast: "This week on Cultural Mixtapes, I sat down with jazz pianist Ethan Iverson to speak about the future of the music business, his genre-less work with The Bad Plus, and putting classical music in conversation with jazz."

This was a really fun podcast

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