Yes, Always

Text of Pleasure, Text of Bliss -- with Michaela Angier

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:00:00 -0400

Yes, Always, has now been fused with my show of the same name on WXTI Tivoli Community Radio, 97.3 FM. If you happen to be in or near Tivoli, NY, on any Sunday from 6:00-9:00 PM, please listen, or stream it here. This is my first reprised episode of Yes, Always, after a long hiatus. Back in June I had a great conversation about music (mostly, and a few other things) with Michaela Angier.

The Logos, and logos, with Mark de Silva

Sun, 02 Apr 2023 18:00:00 -0400

Talking with the brilliant novelist, essayist and philosopher Mark de Silva ( @MarkdeSilva1 ) about his novel The Logos, about logos, about advertising, the metaphysics of writing fiction, the history of capitalism, and just about everything.

Mark de Silva is the author of the novels Square Wave (2016) and The Logos (2022), as well as the essay collection Points of Attack (2020). He holds degrees in philosophy from Brown (AB) and Cambridge (PhD). He is a contributing editor at 3:AM Magazine and a research editor at the New York Times Magazine.

Fashion / Sense with Gwenda-lin Grewal

Sun, 27 Nov 2022 16:00:00 -0500

Talking about fashion and philosophy with Gwenda-lin Grewal: Grewal's recently released book Fashion / Sense; ant death spirals; the quest for immortality; the Heraclitan church of athleisure; and much more...

The News

Fri, 18 Nov 2022 16:00:00 -0500

Todays news: Sharon Stone's husband mauled by Komodo dragon; Florida man asphyxiates on regurgitated cockroaches after winning live cockroach-eating contest; tallest man in the world rescues dolphin; Michigan man pleads guilty to murdering and eating parts of Kevin Bacon; "Pedantic Literalist," by Marianne Moore; Prince Rupert's drops; Prince Rupert's dog believed to possess magical powers.

The Secret Miracle

Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:00:00 -0500

Jorge Luis Borges, The Secret Miracle. 1943.

Translated by Andrew Hurley. Read by Benjamin Hale.

What Is a Monster?

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 17:00:00 -0400

A Halloween episode: the Kraken, Michael Myers, the Terminator, killing mice, the banality of evil.

In the Memory Palace of Don Juan

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Don Juan, melancholy at the twilight of his life of pleasure, in a last quest to relive his memories imprisons himself in a nightmare.

Bust It Baby

Sun, 04 Sep 2022 17:00:00 -0400

Talking with Andrew Ricketts about basketball movies, William Melvin Kelley, James Joyce, Conan the Destroyer, black American slang, the roots of the word woke.