The Blindfold Challenge
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View ArticleLow Fidelity
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View ArticleThe New World
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View ArticleThe Dogfather
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View ArticleAngelyne
For decades, Angelyne pouted down from Hollywood billboards, looking like a New-Wave Jayne Mansfield: a dense cloud of bleached blonde hair and abundant cleavage barely contained by furry pink bikini...
View ArticleA Call in the Night
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View ArticleDeath in Twin Peaks
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View ArticleConsider the Grackles
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View ArticleThe 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?...
View ArticleEpisode 1
Episode one of The Organist plays like an issue of the Believer magazine amplified and broadcast on the air: the short-story master George Saunders talks about how riffing as a teenage bench-warmer led...
View ArticleEpisode 2: The Rhetorical Bed
Episode two of the Organist features David Cross's exploration of his aura-sniffing powers; the best interview Devendra Banhart has ever given; Andrea Silenzi's proposal for a copyright-free...
View ArticleEpisode 3: Tween Anxiety
Conan O'Brien in conversation with Jack White, Sarah Silverman on her virtual pet owl, Shane Carruth's first film in ten years, plus Rachel Kushner, a hunt for priceless vinyl in Louisville's...
View ArticleEpisode 4: Richard, the Angel of Death
Episode Four of the Organist features James Franco performing a new radio drama by the playwright Will Eno; plus, Jonathan Coulton v. Glee; Tao Lin; a (Tao-Lin-related) rap battle between Kitty and...
View ArticleEpisode 5: Tempest Storm and Andy Kaufman
The July episode of the Organist features Jack White in conversation with the oldest working burlesque dancer in the world, Tempest Storm. It's part of Third Man Record's Green Series. Also,...
View ArticleEpisode 6: The Pyramid Club
The August Organist features Hua Hsu on an ancient unsolved mystery of hip hop sampling; Sam McPheeters on shoplifting hardcore punk 7-inches in 1980s Manhattan; a French percussionist on how he began...
View ArticleEpisode 7: Against Lineage
The September episode of the Organist features Kathleen Hanna, the musician and feminist activist known for Bikini Kill, and Julie Ruin, on writing her own eulogy. Comedian Thomas Lennon (Reno 911!,...
View ArticleEpisode 8: Kittens in a Basket
The October Organist features a radio drama featuring Jesse Eisenberg; a remembrance of Mike Kelley; Catherine Keener and Mac Barnett take on a classic children's book from the 1960s; Alexis...
View ArticleEpisode 9: The Sonic Barber's Pole
The December episode of the Organist features a preview of our upcoming conversation between Lena Dunham and Judy Blume; Canadian medical marijuana from the 1970s; aural illusions; Swedish progg; art...
View ArticleEpisode 10: Thundershirt
A conversation between Lena Dunham and Judy Blume, in Blume's Manhattan apartment. Lena Dunham's Mixtape for The Organist (Episode 10) by The Organist on Mixcloud
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