June 15, 2016
Episode 25: Baseball
I always dislike hearing the national anthem. It has always struck me as a horrible tick of US chauvinism, that the national anthem gets played every time there’s a game played.
May 6, 2016
Episode 24: At the Movies
Most film critics that write today regularly are essentially publicists for Hollywood films. Their criticism is intermingled with this form of entertainment journalism that really has nothing to do with criticism. So a lot of times when you read a film review now, in addition to getting a lot of plot description—which I don’t think is really necessary in film criticism anymore, because everybody knows everything about films before they come out now because of the internet—you get a lot of histories of the people who are in the films or made the films.
May 4, 2016
Nowhere are the limits of the “women’s health” defense of abortion clearer than in the case of Zika.
On Zika and Abortion
March 23, 2016
Episode 23: Inherited Disorders
“It started as a normal novel about fathers and sons, one of those, so I always knew I wanted to write about fathers and sons. And I thought I could do it in a realist way, tracking a father and a son through a relationship or whatever, and I was completely unable to do that. There were two or three years where essentially, everyday, I would start from scratch. I liked the starting out, I liked having a father and a son in some weird situation, and then I would sort of try to maneuver them in a realist way, and it would fall apart and collapse. After a couple of years of this and feeling crazy, probably under the influence of some other books that had somewhat similar forms, I realized I could just sort of take each of the beginnings and turn them into their own mini story and have the relationship kind of come out of the way the stories interacted with each other.”
February 23, 2016
Episode 22: Harm Reduction
Sarah Resnick joins the n+1 podcast to talk about heroin, harm reduction, and her essay in issue 24, “H.”
February 16, 2016
Army Wives
On Fort Buchanan
With its recycling of soap opera dialogue and its knowing embrace of cliché, Fort Buchanan seems to imply that melodrama applies the same logic to emotion that pornography applies to sexuality—that it creates a world in which vast and spontaneous intensities of feeling are exchanged with prolific frequency and little consequence.
December 16, 2015
Episode 21: Adjunct Commuter Weekly
This episode of the n+1 podcast goes on the road with Paper Monument co-founding editor Dushko Petrovich to talk about adjunct labor in universities and his new project the Adjunct Commuter Weekly.
December 9, 2015
Is Moira Pregnant?
On signing up for health care
There’s some evidence that even with the subsidies, many people still can’t afford to go to the doctor: a recent Gallup poll found that 31 percent of Americans had delayed seeking medical treatment because of the cost, even though the number of insured people has increased since the passing of the health-care law. Ours is a now system that demands long-term planning almost exclusively from people whose work is scarce enough and precarious enough to preclude even short-term security.
October 19, 2015
Episode 20: Modern Love
On this month’s episode of the n+1 podcast, author and contributor Emily Witt joins us to talk about the intersection of technology and contemporary sexuality.
September 10, 2015
Episode 19: "Hand Jobs"
Joining us on this episode of the n+1 podcast is Christine Smallwood, who reads from her short story “Hand Jobs” originally published in issue 22 of n+1, then she stays for a short conversation on writing the story.
Gay as in Happy
On Maggie Nelson
To use Myles’s metaphor: Nelson is half a scholar with a downturned cup, attempting to trap something scuttling uncooperatively around, and half a writer-bug, trying to dodge the cup.
July 27, 2015
Episode 18: Labor & Letters
On this episode of the n+1 podcast, podcast editor Aaron Braun speaks with Jo Livingstone about intern labor in publishing. Mixed in with their conversation are excerpts from n+1’s Labor and Letters Symposium in April discussing the state of labor in publishing today. Nikil Saval moderates the Symposium panel, featuring guests Aaron Braun, Sarah Jaffe, Maxine Phillips, and Maida Rosenstein.
