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Culture Schlock: Olivia Rutigliano Talks with David Denby About Betty Friedan, Mel Brooks, Norman Mailer, and Leonard Bernstein

Culture Schlock: Olivia Rutigliano Talks with David Denby About Betty Friedan, Mel Brooks, Norman Mailer, and Leonard Bernstein

What do these four major 20th century cultural figures have in common? More than you'd think!

By Culture Schlock | May 2, 2026

Liam Callanan on Trump vs. the Pope

Liam Callanan on Trump vs. the Pope

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 30, 2026

Caroline Bicks on Stephen King’s Archives of Horror

Caroline Bicks on Stephen King’s Archives of Horror

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 23, 2026

Becca Rothfeld (with Herman Melville and John Updike)

Becca Rothfeld (with Herman Melville and John Updike)

This Week on The Writers Institute Podcast, From the Archives of the New York State Writers Institute

By The Writers Institute | April 22, 2026

Danielle Bainbridge on Defying the Formula to Find Your Form

Danielle Bainbridge on Defying the Formula to Find Your Form

From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | April 20, 2026

Chris Hadfield on <em>Final Orbit</em>, Artemis II, and the Future of Space

Chris Hadfield on Final Orbit, Artemis II, and the Future of Space

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Andrew Martin (with Mary Gaitskill)

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Rich Benjamin on Writing From Before You Were Born

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Kate Schatz on Having an Agenda

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Kathryn Paige Harden on Behavior, Genetics, and Blame

Kathryn Paige Harden on Behavior, Genetics, and Blame

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Catherine Lacey (with Lorrie Moore and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah)

Catherine Lacey (with Lorrie Moore and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah)

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By The Writers Institute | April 8, 2026

Camille T. Dungy on Being a Renaissance Man

Camille T. Dungy on Being a Renaissance Man

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By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | April 6, 2026

Alicia Jo Rabins on the Spiritual Memoir

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By Memoir Nation | April 6, 2026

Rick Moody (with Francis Ford Coppola and William Kennedy)

Rick Moody (with Francis Ford Coppola and William Kennedy)

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Ana Gavrilovska on Pynchon’s Prescient Technofascism

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras (with Toni Morrison and Seamus Heaney)

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