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The Blindfold Challenge

Take a weird, thoughtful and pleasurable journey into literature, music, art, philosophy, the internet, language, and history with McSweeney's and KCRW. This unconventional arts-and-culture magazine...

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Between Speaking and Singing

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Low Fidelity

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The New World

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The Dogfather

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Angelyne

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...

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A Call in the Night

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Death in Twin Peaks

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Consider the Grackles

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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?...

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Episode 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...

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Episode 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...

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Episode 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...

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Episode 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...

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Episode 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,...

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Episode 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...

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Episode 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!,...

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Episode 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...

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Episode 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...

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Episode 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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