The Arcade by Hazlitt

51 Featuring Kazuo Ishiguro

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:09:50 -0400

Exploring the dark with Kazuo Ishiguro, author of The Buried Giant.

50 Featuring Marc Goodman

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 11:28:53 -0400

Exploring an internet under perpetual attack with Future Crimes author Marc Goodman.

49 Featuring Andrew O’Hagan

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 11:04:20 -0500

Uncovering the secret history of Canada’s greatest photographer.

48 Featuring Dr. James Maskalyk and Dr. James Orbinski

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:48:21 -0500

Understanding the ongoing Ebola crisis with Dr. James Maskalyk and Dr. James Orbinski.

47 Featuring Jim Gaffigan

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 10:11:01 -0500

Sampling Canada’s chip selections with Jim Gaffigan.

46 Featuring Conrad Black

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:08:17 -0500

Leaving a legacy with Lord Conrad Black.

45 Featuring Anne Rice

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:00:14 -0500

Obliterating realism with Anne Rice.

44 Featuring William Gibson

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 10:19:07 -0500

Living among the ruins of past futures with William Gibson.

43 Featuring Peter Mendelsund

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 10:36:12 -0500

Understanding the reading experience with book jacket designer Peter Mendelsund.

42 Featuring Ta-Nehisi Coates

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:59:36 -0500

Improving the lot of the oppressed with The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates.

41 Featuring Nina Bunjevac

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 09:55:24 -0500

Growing up on the run with Fatherland cartoonist Nina Bunjevac.

40 Featuring Perfume Genius

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 09:54:24 -0400

Gambling in Second Life with Perfume Genius.

39 Featuring Chuck Palahniuk

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 10:49:28 -0400

On the problem of arousal addiction with Beautiful You author, Chuck Palahniuk.

38 Featuring Christian Rudder

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 10:30:45 -0400

Understanding the ethics of Big Data with OKCupid cofounder Christian Rudder.

37 Featuring Ben Lerner

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 05:00:09 -0400

Tracing the circuits of global capitalism with 10:04 author Ben Lerner.

36 Featuring Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, and Leanne Shapton

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:00:29 -0400

Projecting backwards in time with Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, and Leanne Shapton.

35 Featuring Michael Cho

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:09:54 -0400

Exposing your weaknesses with Shoplifter cartoonist Michael Cho.

34 Featuring Margaret Atwood

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 09:51:11 -0400

The bandwidth of the universe with Canadian icon and Stone Mattress author Margaret Atwood.

33 Understanding Murakami

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 09:41:36 -0400

Student riots, atomic groups, and the fine art of translation. We explore the legacy of blockbuster novelist Haruki Murakami.

32 Featuring Emily Carroll

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:08:06 -0400

The unease of dream logic with Through the Woods cartoonist Emily Carroll.

31 The Natural Order

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 10:13:48 -0400

Talking about the natural world with Safari Honeymoon cartoonist Jesse Jacobs.

30 More Truth

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:07:52 -0400

We speak with Emily Gould about her debut novel and what it means to be a female writer in 2014.

29 Cause & Effect

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:07:08 -0400

Talking about Quantum Leap with Seconds and Scott Pilgrim cartoonist Bryan Lee O’Malley.

28 Perpetual Dissatisfaction

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 11:19:22 -0400

Making sense of the freelance hustle with Toronto’s precariat.

27 Are You Alright? Are We Alright?

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 09:24:16 -0400

We speak with Marc Maron, actor, comedian, podcaster behind the hugely succesful WTF Podcast, and author of Attempting Normal.

26 Featuring Sean Michaels

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 09:19:19 -0400

We talk theremins with Sean Michaels, author of the alt-historical thriller, Us Conductors.

25 1.7 Million

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Wed, 28 May 2014 03:57:13 -0400

We speak with Glenn Greenwald, the political journalist who helped expose the U.S. National Security Agency’s unprecedented spying program.

24 Flaming Centaur Package

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Wed, 14 May 2014 11:01:55 -0400

We speak with New York Magazine’s Adam Sternbergh about his new sci-fi noir, Shovel Ready.

23 The Frontier

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Wed, 07 May 2014 10:29:55 -0400

The history of computer animation with Ed Catmull, author of Creativity Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

22 A Gentle Scraping

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:36:19 -0400

Grossing out Jolie Kerr, columnist and author of My Boyfriend Barfed in My Handbag… And Other Things You Can’t Ask Martha.

21 Fashion is Worn

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 10:20:39 -0400

We speak with Serah-Marie McMahon, the Editor-in-Pants of WORN Fashion Journal on the launch of their first collected edition, The WORN Archive.

20 The Pups of Wall Street

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:45:29 -0400

How to build a sociopath. We speak with journalist Kevin Roose, author of Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street’s Post-Crash Recruits.

19 Better Living Through Gossip

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 08:51:58 -0400

Talking secrets with gossip blogger Elaine Lui and Whisper’s Editor-in-Chief Neetzan Zimmerman.

17 An Unexpected Career

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 09:22:20 -0400

On race, tumblr, and justice, with stand-up comedian and writer Hari Kondabolu.

17 A Soft Revenge

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:47:42 -0400

Diane Obomsawin’s On Loving Women, Peanut Butter Wolf, Hari Kondabolu, and Rebecca Mead on My Life in Middlemarch.

16 No Country for Old Men

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 03:47:13 -0500

Gabriel Sherman on Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, a new track from Mac DeMarco, and Bill Bryson on America’s coming of age.

15 The Good Diseases

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 10:07:15 -0500

Gary Shteyngart on his new memoir, Little Failure. Charles Montgomery on what makes a city happy. And hardcore band Perfect Pussy talk literary influences.

14 A Bloodless Coup

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:15:13 -0500

Michael DeForge on his new graphic novel, Ant Colony. Why Feminism matters in 21st Century art. And author Jung Chang on China’s Empress Dowager Cixi.

13 The Integratron

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 09:12:02 -0500

Douglas Coupland on his new novel. Hari Kunzru on the sublime terror of the desert. And Hazlitt’s Scaachi Koul spars with UFC historian Nick “The Tooth” Gullo.

12 Sex

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 12:38:13 -0500

Heather Gold, Fiona Duncan, and Tamara Faith Berger on the phrase “eating pussy.” The inventor of phone sex. Christopher Frey speaks with Sarah Nicole Prickett and Berkeley Poole about Adult.

11 Leaving Home

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 09:33:23 -0500

Charting stories with graphic novelist Isabel Greenberg, unrequited love with comedian Rob Delaney, and a conversation with Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.

10 Magical Thinking

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:50:20 -0400

Three decades of Sweet Valley High, Canada’s first female superhero, and Governor General’s Non-Fiction Award Nominee Nina Munk on economist Jeffrey Sachs.

9 20th Century Hangover

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 09:22:35 -0400

Carl Wilson talks to Jonathan Lethem about Dissident Gardens. Jhumpa Lahiri on The Lowland; new music by Milosh. Michael Ignatieff on what Machiavelli means to him.

8 A Wilder World

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 16:25:03 -0400

Featuring J.B. MacKinnon on rewilding, playwright Hannah Moscovitch and journalist Graeme Smith on the war in Afghanistan, and a skit by comic book creators Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky.

7 Bespoke Underwear

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 09:11:33 -0400

Night Film author Marisha Pessl on terror vs. horror, music journalist Sarah Liss talks about Will Munro, and we drop by the launch of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam.

6 What the Doctor Said

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:19:25 -0400

We speak with The Awl’s Choire Sicha, poet Warsan Shire, and author Alexander Maksik. We also hear a collaboration between Majical Cloudz and CFCF.

5 Dragged Away and Disappeared, Legally

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 13:48:50 -0400

How to teach a computer to play chess, Kiese Laymon on growing up black in Mississippi, Wayne Grady confronts the dead, and rappers EL-P and Killer Mike audit US Foreign Policy.

4 Live Free or Daikon

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:13:43 -0400

We meet celebrated comix artist Art Spiegelman, Alexandra Kimball on unpaid internships, conversation with the legendary Wire, and Hazlitt’s Editor-in-Chief shares a bathhouse encounter in Japan.

3 Tiny Mattresses

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 14:13:52 -0400

We speak with author Kevin Kwan about his new book, Crazy Rich Asians, and we dive into the mind of Japan’s master of gay erotic manga, Gengoroh Tagame. Plus: Eve Ensler and music by Austra.

2 Black Hair vs. Baseball

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:46:18 -0400

We speak with Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, journalist J.B. MacKinnon, and Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert, author of the just released Black Code.

1 Dawn Chorus

Anshuman Iddamsetty — Thu, 23 May 2013 09:39:03 -0400

The debut episode of our Hazlitt podcast, featuring Adbusters’ editor-at-large Micah White, New Yorker art editor Françoise Mouly, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Moss.