The Colophon

Phil Klay, National Book Award Winner and Iraq War Veteran, and Colonel David Harper sit down with us to discuss our publication of Klay's story Ten Kliks South in collaboration with the Thornwillow West Point Fellows. While we reflect on the nature of modern warfare, we also remember the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and the conflicts that followed. Support the show

09-13

01:21:24

In this episode, we take a bold leap into the apocalyptic imagination of celebrated New Yorker cartoonist, Roz Chast. We discuss her newest publication with Thornwillow Press, How We Survived, and ponder the end of the world that was. Along the way, we ruminate on her extraordinary career as an artist and how art saves all. Support the show

07-22

46:36

Colonel Harper, Head of the Department of English and Philosophy at West Point, is a dear friend to the Press and visited to talk about our latest collaborative project, Beauty is the Beginning ofTerror. Along the way, he shared fascinating insights into the life and works of John Milton (one of his academic focus areas), censorship, and the freedom of ideas.Support the show

07-15

01:06:09

We sat down with Adam Gopnik, mainstay writer at the New Yorker, to discuss everything from becoming a professional writer to life as a dog in New York City.Support the show

04-06

59:13

We sat down with Harold Holzer, one of the world's leading scholars of Abraham Lincoln, and director of The Roosevelt House in New York City. This episode was taped in Franklin Delano Roosevelt's personal library, where, as Harold explains, he "learned to walk again" and where the New Deal got its start.Support the show

04-05

01:06:52

We are excited to present a new podcast from Thornwillow Press, "The Colophon," in which we sit with our favorite authors and artists and talk about things that capture our imaginations.For our inaugural episode, we talked with our good friend Edmund Morris, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the great biographers of our time.Support the show

03-18

01:03:23

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07-08

02:27:13

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05-18

02:28:16

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05-18

02:08:17

FeaturingPatrick HastingsMegan BarnardSarah MacDonnellEdward ConlonAdam LevinCharles Frederick SecreaseSammy JayDuane BuotteLochlann O’MearáinSage MehtaMicki MyersMartin CoxDavid HirschmanJacqueline BucovyVirginia BartowCharles Tolkien-GillettRick GekoskiSupport the show

04-03

57:52

We are pleased to present Episode 10 of Thornwillow's #Bloomsyear Centennial reading of James Joyce's ULYSSES. This episode features a number of readers from the University of New York at Buffalo - home to the largest collection of significant Joyce material in the world - reading in special locations and from unique copies of the book: James Maynard, Alison Fraser, Evviva Weinraub-Lajoie, Lilly Reynolds, Marie Elia, Kolbe Resnick, Scott Hollander, and Dipanjan Maitra. We are deli...

10-24

01:38:39

We are pleased to present Episode 9 of Thornwillow's #Bloomsyear Centennial Reading of James Joyce's ULYSSES., SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS , featuring Jeremy Funke, Harry Cooper, Jim Periconi, Robert Seidman, Katie Vagnino, Duff Lambros, Sarah Funke Butler, Michael Gorman, Alan M. Klein, Sandy Neubauer, Rebecca Romney, and Amanda Gann. Support the show

10-24

01:39:10

We are pleased to present Episode 8 of Thornwillow's #Bloomsyear Centennial Reading of James Joyce's ULYSSES. Featuring Jay Frederick Krehbiel, Thomas Campbell Jackson, E.P. McRae, Clare Hutton, William Beekman, Monty Lowry Corry, Elaine Byrne, John Lilly, Patrick Butler, Joanne Byrne, Gordon Hecht, and Victoria Browne reading Episode VIII, LESTRYGONIANS of James Joyce's ULYSSES.Support the show

08-22

01:38:19

We are pleased to present Episode 6 of Thornwillow's #Bloomsyear Centennial Reading of James Joyce's ULYSSES. Featuring Rebecca Pidgeon, Peggy O'Shea, Susan Morrison, Benjamin Dreyer, Luke Ives Pontifell, Ronan Teevan, Jami Floyd, Barrett Leddy, Khris Lewin, Joseph Post, Kirsten Vangness, Andrea Syglowski, Michael Simon Hall, and Brian Boyd reading Episode VII AEOLUS of James Joyce's ULYSSES.Support the show

08-22

01:28:49

We are pleased to present Episode 6 of Thornwillow's #Bloomsyear Centennial Reading of James Joyce's ULYSSES. Featuring Paul Hecht, Tara Bandman, Michael DeRuggiero, Rosanne Cash, Phil Klay, Tine deVaron, Ronan Healy, Matt Salyer, Julius Boxer-Cooper, Col. Dave Harper, Peter Lerangis, Sean Desmond, Patrick Myles, Dorothy Marcic, Matt Heimer, Randy Cohen, and Brían F. O'Byrne reading Episode VI HADES of James Joyce's ULYSSES.Support the show