The Organist
Andrew Leland
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Take a weird, thoughtful and pleasurable journey into literature, music, art, philosophy, the internet, language, and history with McSweeney's and KCRW.
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APR 18, 2019
Give Everybody Everything: The Financial Life of Bernadette Mayer
If poetry makes nothing happen, it also makes very little in the way of income. Take the acclaimed poet Bernadette Mayer. Often aligned with the Language Poets, Mayer overcame entrenched sexism to establish herself as one of the most influential poets...
44 MIN
APR 4, 2019
The Narrative Line
What happens when the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves turn out to be wrong? And what if the attempt to shape our life stories to fit some formulaic narrative arc fundamentally distorts them? Could different narrative forms tell more honest...
42 MIN
MAR 21, 2019
Consider the Grackles
Buck Gooter is quite possibly the hardest-working band you’ve never heard of. Since forming in 2005, the band has logged 18 albums and 531 live shows. Their latest, , just came out. But they’ve never had a hit, never been reviewed by Pitchfork. A...
31 MIN
FEB 21, 2019
Death in Twin Peaks
[Explicit language] In 2017, David Lynch’s metaphysical detective soap opera Twin Peaks returned to cable television screens 26 years after its network cancellation. Most of the original characters resurfaced, but in several cases, either those...
21 MIN
FEB 7, 2019
A Call in the Night
On this week’s Organist, two stories about the surprising intimacy of anonymity. In the first, thousands of people sign up for a , created by artist and programmer Max Hawkins, which wakes up thousands strangers with a phone call in the middle of...
21 MIN
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