House of Speakeasy

Famous writers will “Stand with Salman Rushdie” on the steps of the NYPL this Friday.

 
By Jonny Diamond  August 17, 2022
The Hub

“We’re stuck being described as ‘exploding infants.’” Watch PJ O’Rourke on Baby Boomers.

By Jonny Diamond  February 18, 2022
The House of SpeakEasy

The House of SpeakEasy Podcast: It’s Not You

By The SpeakEasy Podcast   December 4, 2019
The House of SpeakEasy

The House of SpeakEasy Podcast: Failing Up

By The SpeakEasy Podcast   November 20, 2019
The House of SpeakEasy

The House of SpeakEasy Podcast: When Strangers Meet

By The SpeakEasy Podcast   November 6, 2019
The House of SpeakEasy

The House of SpeakEasy Podcast: The Razor’s Edge

By The SpeakEasy Podcast   October 23, 2019
The House of SpeakEasy

Introducing The House of SpeakEasy Podcast

By The SpeakEasy Podcast   October 9, 2019
Travel

After 4,000 miles and 5,000 book giveaways, Poetry to the People is back home.

By Rob Spillman  July 8, 2019
The Hub

This bookmobile is driving 1,800 miles from New York to Louisiana.

By Corinne Segal  June 4, 2019
Conversations

Ana Marie Cox on Our New National Nightmare

By Literary Hub  April 4, 2017
Speech

George Washington: ‘Citizens By Birth Or Choice’ Will Make America Great

By Charles Arrowsmith  February 6, 2017
Conversations

Phil Klay on the Citizen-Veteran Gap, and Modes of Storytelling

By Charles Arrowsmith  October 28, 2016
Biography

One of the Greatest English Prose Writers of All Time?

By Charles Arrowsmith  September 14, 2016
Profile

On the Road with Geoff Dyer

By Charles Arrowsmith  June 6, 2016
Essay

Jon Ronson: In Search of the Genuinely New

By Charles Arrowsmith  April 14, 2016
Events

The Defiant Magic of Molly Crabapple

By Charles Arrowsmith  March 3, 2016
Essay

Is Canadian Fabulism a Hot New Genre?

By Charles Arrowsmith  November 9, 2015
Criticism

Growing Up Carlin

By Charles Arrowsmith  September 15, 2015
Criticism

Irvine Welsh Comes to America

By Charles Arrowsmith  June 10, 2015

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