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- LQ Podcast 33: Jeffrey Gettleman Gettleman, the East Africa bureau chief for the New York Times looks back with LQ editor Elias Altman to the 2007 Kenya presidential election and what it bodes for its next election in 2013.
- LQ Podcast 32: Kevin Bleyer Daily Show writer Kevin Bleyer explains what exactly got into his head that set him on the road to rewriting the Constitution, a quest he described in his book Me the People.
- LQ Podcast 31: China Miéville Weird-fiction wizard China Miéville discusses the magic and supernatural forces at work in his books as well as the craft and practice of genre writing.
- LQ Podcast 30: Alex Stone Navigate the strange and fascinating intersections of magic, con artistry, and science with author Alex Stone as he discusses his new book, Fooling Houdini.
- LQ Podcast 29: Jon Gertner Discover the technological marvel that was Bell Labs with author Jon Gertner, who discusses his book on the subject, The Idea Factory.
- LQ Podcast 28: Invented Languages Klingon. Esperanto. Dothraki. Dive into the weird world of invented languages with LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark, linguist Arika Okrent, and an array of language inventors.
- LQ Podcast 27: DARE Delve into the history of DARE, the Dictionary of American Regional English, with LQ contributor Simon Winchester and DARE chief editor Joan Hall.
- LQ Podcast 26: Andy Zaltzman Andy Zaltzman, comedian and co-host of The Bugle podcast reads passages from LQ about some of antiquity’s looniest despots. Featuring the maniacal musical career of Nero, the sexual habits of Caligula, and the sporting life as practiced by Commodus.
- LQ Podcast 25: David Javerbaum David Javerbaum, former head writer of The Daily Show and current mortal secretary to God, talks about God’s latest book, the hilarious “telleth-all” The Last Testament.
- LQ Podcast 24: Musharraf Ali Farooqi Musharraf Ali Farooqi, translator of The Adventures of Amir Hamza discusses one of world literature’s greatest heroes with LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark.
- LQ Podcast 23: Peter Ackroyd Author and translator Peter Ackroyd talks with Aidan Flax-Clark about his new retelling of Thomas Malory’s fifteenth-century tale of knightly romances, Le Morte D’Arthur
- LQ Podcast 22: Sarah Vowell Historian, radio star, and Daily Show contributor Sarah Vowell reads from LQ’s Future issue: Mark Twain’s hilarious “Earthquake Almanac,” William Safire’s preparatory presidential space-disaster speech, and Futurist extraordinaire Filippo Marinetti’s attack on pasta.
- LQ Podcast 21: John Crowley, Part 2 The second half of LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark’s conversation with novelist John Crowley. They discuss Crowley’s novel, Little, Big, on the 30th anniversary of its publication.
- LQ Podcast 20: John Crowley, Part 1 Novelist John Crowley talks with LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark about why the future is disappearing from people’s imaginations and why it’s being replaced by the past.
- LQ Podcast 19: Marc Maron Marc Maron, standup comedian and host of the WTF podcast, talks with LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark about reading, why his books might be bullying him, and why you can’t go wrong with a good mac-and-cheese recipe.
- LQ Podcast 18: Brent Cunningham Author Brent Cunningham talks with LQ editor Elias Altman about the trials and tribulations of the modern food-reform movement, and his essay “Pastoral Romance,” which appears in our latest issue, “Food.”
- LQ Podcast 17: Jason Goodwin We talk with novelist Jason Goodwin about Turkish food, the delights of eating in the Ottoman empire, and his series of historical mystery novels, with their main character, the eunuch investigator Yashim, solving crimes and cooking his way through nineteenth-century Istanbul.
- LQ Podcast 16: Ed Dante Author of “The Shadow Scholar,” Ed Dante, who writes under a pseudonym, talks with LQ about his career in the college-paper-writing business and the problems in American higher education.
- LQ Podcast 15: Liev Schreiber Liev Schreiber reads excerpts from the Quarterly by Anton Chekhov, Salman Rushdie, and Buffalo Bill, all on the theme of work.
- LQ Podcast 14: Philip Connors Philip Connors came by the LQ offices to talk with editor Elias Altman about his new book Fire Season and the essay adapted from it that appears in the newest issue of LQ, “Lines of Work.”
