Lapham's Quarterly: The Podcast

Donovan Hohn came by the LQ offices to talk with Aidan Flax-Clark about his book Moby Duck, as well as his essay "Lost Symbols," which appears in the new Lapham's Quarterly issue, Lines of Work.

Strange tales of the newspaper business in late-1950s San Francisco and Oakland, from Lapham's Quarterly founder and editor Lewis Lapham, live at the Moth, 2003.

Associate editor Aidan Flax-Clark talks to poet Coleman Barks about his work translating the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic poet Rumi.

Live from Joe's Pub, part 2. We had a release party at Joe's Pub in New York for our Celebrity issue, and we invited some real celebrities to join in the festivities and read some of their favorite excerpts from the issue. In part 2 of our

Live from Joe's Pub, part 1. We had a release party for our Celebrity issue, and we invited some real celebrities to help us make merry by reading some of their favorite excerpts from it. In this podcast and the next, we'll play you our fav

Lapham's Quarterly starts its new year of podcasts by offering up editor Michelle Legro's interview with Paul Collins. Collins spoke to her last December about Barbara Newhall Follett, a forgotten child prodigy who published her first novel

In 1968 the Beatles visited the ashram of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to study Transcendental Meditation. Though many tried to gain access, the only journalist allowed in was Lewis Lapham, who was writing about the Maharishi and TM for the Sa

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky are two of the most well-known translators of Russian prose working today. Editor Aidan Flax-Clark sits down with the pair to talk about Russian literature and their new translation of Boris Pasternak'

The author of "Classics for Pleasure," and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post Book World, talks about his favorite writers featured in the Quarterly who deserve to be better-known.

In this trio of American texts, Lewis Lapham reads Henry Adams, Robert Krulwich reads Walt Whitman, and James Franco reads Benjamin Franklin.

Editor Aidan Flax-Clark talks with author John Crowley about Hermann Hesse's "The Glass Bead Game" and the fierce competition found in both sports and the arts.

First introduced to the critic after seeing his name on a Baltimore burrito shop, comedian Patton Oswalt has always admired the curmudgeonly tone of H.L. Mencken. He reads sections of Mencken from "Sports & Games," "Religion," and our n