Phil is joined by Peter Catapano, of the New York Times, and graphic novelist Jess Ruliffson to discuss Peter's essay on the life and work of cartoonist Gary Leib The Manifesto: Peter Catapano, “I’m Going to Make a Fire”: The Transmogrifications of Gary Leib https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/im-going-to-make-a-fire-the-transmogrifications-of-gary-leib/ The Art: Gary Leib's animation for The Stone https://vimeo.com/148232540 Leib's animations for the...

Jake and Phil are joined by the great poet Tom Sleigh to discuss his essay "To Be Incarnational," on the World War I poetry of David Jones, as well as Tom's poem "In Which a Spider Weaves a Web on My Computer Screen" The Manifesto: Tom Sleigh, To Be Incarnational https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/70066/to-be-incarnational The Art: Tom Sleigh, "In Which a Spider Weaves a Web on My Computer Screen" https://vimeo.com/669317283

Jake and Phil (finally) discuss Flannery O'Connor's Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction, alongside Andre Dubus II's short story Killings The Manifesto: Flannery O'Connor, Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction https://bscc.instructure.com/courses/4608/files/434937/download?download_frd=1 Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMrveIu0DdE The Art: Andre Dubus II, Killings https://www.uww.edu/documents/library/ersearch/er/moore_g/moore_101/dubuskillings_101_moore.pdf

Jake and Phil are joined by jazz pianist and composer Ethan Iverson to discuss Wynton Marsalis' "What Jazz Is—and Isn't", as well as Marsalis' 1985 album J Mood. The Manifesto: Wynton Marsalis - "What Jazz Is—and Isn't", https://wyntonmarsalis.org/news/entry/music-what-jazz-is-and-isnt The Art: Wynton Marsalis - J Mood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PerIfsVGl_0 Ethan Iverson's website: https://ethaniverson.com/ The track played of Ethan's in the middle of the podcast is The Eternal...

Jake and Phil are joined by Joseph Keegin to discuss Nicolás Gómez Dávila‘s “The Authentic Reactionary,” and Chaim Grade’s classic of Yiddish literature: “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner” The Manifesto: Nicolás Gómez Dávila‘s “The Authentic Reactionary” https://isi.org/modern-age/the-authentic-reactionary/ The Art: Chaim Grade’s “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner” https://mosaicmagazine.com/response/arts-culture/2020/12/my-quarrel-with-hersh-rasseyner/

Phil is joined by Samuel Moyn to discuss his new book, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, alongside Kathe Kollwitz's The Survivors The Manifesto: Samuel Moyn - Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374173708/humane The Art: Kathe Kollwitz, The Survivors https://aestronauts.com/post/114048762630/kathe-kollwitz-the-survivors

Jake and Phil discuss Raymond Chandler's The Simple Art of Murder, alongside Ross MacDonald's novel Black Money. The Manifesto: http://jacksharman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Raymond-Chandler-Simple-Art-of-Murder.pdf The Art: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/105230/black-money-by-ross-macdonald/

Jake and Phil are joined by Scott Beauchamp to discuss his new book, Did You Kill Anyone? Reunderstanding My Military Experience as a Critique of Modern Culture, and Alistair Macleod's "The Closing Down of Summer" The Manifesto: Scott Beauchamp, Did You Kill Anyone? Reunderstanding My Military Experience as a Critique of Modern Culture Read an excerpt: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/did-you-kill-anyone The Art: Alistair Macleod, "The Closing Down of...

A special live episode of Manifesto! A Podcast courtesy of Fairfield University's Inspired Writers Series. Jake and Phil are joined by Vinson Cunningham, a theater critic and staff writer at the New Yorker, to discuss Pope Francis' Fratelli Tutti and Jackie Sibblies Drury's Fairview. The Manifesto: Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20201003_enciclica-fratelli-tutti.html Jackie Sibblies Drury,...

Phil is joined by Eugene McCarraher, Professor of the Humanities and History at Villanova University, to discuss his article "A Providentialism Without God: The Case Against Meritocracy" as well as Goya's "The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters" The Manifesto: Eugene McCarraher, "A Providentialism Without God: The Case Against Meritocracy" https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/providentialism-without-god The Art: Goya, "The Dream of Reason Produces...

Jake and Phil are joined by Geoff Shullenberg of Outsider Theory to discuss Herbert Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance" and Franz Kafka's "The Judgement". The Manifesto: Herbert Marcuse, "Repressive Tolerance" https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/publications/1960s/1965-repressive-tolerance-fulltext.html The Art: Franz Kafka, "The Judgement" https://www.kafka-online.info/-the-judgement.html

Jake and Phil are joined by Alana Newhouse to discuss her essay “Everything Is Broken” and the Ani DiFranco live album “Living in Clip.” The Manifesto: Alana Newhouse, Everything is Broken https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/everything-is-broken The Art: Ani DiFranco, Living in Clip https://anidifranco.bandcamp.com/album/living-in-clip Works Mentioned: Eugene McCarraher, Comrade Ruskin - How a Victorian visionary can save communism from Marx...

Jake and Phil discuss Jan Kott's "King Lear or Endgame" and George Oppen's "Psalm." The Manifesto: Jan Kott, "King Lear or Endgame" https://t.co/L9FRGoRD3L?amp=1 The Art: George Oppen's "Psalm" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/29449/psalm-56d212ff620c5

Jake and Phil are joined by Carlos Lozada to discuss his new book, What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era, and the chapter "Decent People" from Garth Greenwell's Cleanness. The Manifesto: Carlos Lozada, What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/What-Were-We-Thinking/Carlos-Lozada/9781982145620 The Art: Garth Greenwell, "Decent People" https://thesewaneereview.com/articles/decent-people

This week Jake and Phil are joined by special guest Jesse Walker of Reason Magazine to discuss William S. Burroughs The Revised Boy Scout Manual and Charles Ridley's short anti-Nazi propaganda film,  Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk (assisted by the Gestapo 'Hep-Cats')     The Manifesto: William S. Burroughs, The Revised Boy Scout Manual https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814254899.html The Art: Charles Ridley, 1941, Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk (assisted by the...

Phil and Jake are joined by Ian Marcus Corbin to discuss Joseph Conrad's Preface and Saul Bellow's "Mosby's Memoirs" The Manifesto: Conrad, The Preface https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17731/17731-h/17731-h.htm#link2H_PREF The Art: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1968/07/20/mosbys-memoirs

Jake and Phil are joined by Elliot Ackerman to discuss Ernst Junger’s 1934 essay On Pain, alongside Elliot’s A Battle in Fallujah, Revisited, an excerpt of his memoir, Places and Names. The Manifesto Ernst Junger, On Pain https://www.amazon.com/Pain-Ernst-J%C3%BCnger/dp/0914386409 The Art Elliot Ackerman, A Battle in Fallujah, Revisted https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/opinion/memorial-day-falluja.html (adapted from Places and...

Jake and Phil are joined by Paul Berman to discuss The Plague, by Albert Camus. The Manifesto: Albert Camus, The Plague (the second half of Part II) The Art: Albert Camus, The Plague (the second half of Part II) Works Discussed Paul Berman, "Modern Times" https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/paul-berman-modern-times-1 Paul Berman, Terror and Liberalism https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393325553 Albert Camus, The Rebel Iris Murdoch, "The Existentialist...

Jake and Phil are joined by novelist, essayist, and Penthouse Magazine national security columnist Matt Gallagher to discuss Gustav Hasford’s June 1987 article in Penthouse Magazine, Vietnam Means Never Having to Say Your Sorry. Due to coronavirus-related time constraints (we all have children who need minding), we are departing from our usual format and will just be discussing the manifesto. The Manifesto: Gustaf Hasford, Vietnam Means Never Having to Say You’re...

The Art: Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5658/5658-h/5658-h.htm Other works discussed: Thomas Nagel, The Absurd https://philosophy.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/The%20Absurd%20-%20Thomas%20Nagel.pdf Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan, The I That Tells Itself: A Bakhtinian Perspective on Narrative Identity https://www.jstor.org/stable/30219268 The Sacred and Profane Love Podcast https://thevirtueblog.com/category/podcast-sacred-and-profane-love/

Jake and Phil are joined by novelist Daniel Torday to discuss Robert Alter's “A Literary Approach to the Bible,” alongside The Book of Jonah. The Manifesto: Robert Alter, “A Literary Approach to the Bible,” from The Art of Biblical Narrative https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/robert-alter/the-art-of-biblical-narrative/9780465022557/ The Art: The Book of Jonah https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jonah+1&version=KJV Works cited: Amy Hungerford, Postmodern Belief: American...

Phil is out today, so Jake talks with Michael Lind about his book, The New Class War, as well as Auden's The Fall of Rome Manifesto: Michael Lind, The New Class War https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/607661/the-new-class-war-by-michael-lind/ Art: Auden, The Fall of Rome https://poets.org/poem/fall-rome Works mentioned: Dustin Guastella, White collar populism https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/11/white-collar-populism/ Zach Goldberg, America's White...

Jake and Phil are joined by Alex Brook Lynn to discuss the Stuckists’ Manifesto and Julio Cortázar’s The Pursuer Manifesto: The Stuckists Manifesto http://www.stuckism.com/stuckistmanifesto.html#manifest Art: Julio Cortázar, The Pursuer https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/32198/blow-up-by-julio-cortazar/ References: Jakes’s sartorial splendor https://www.instagram.com/p/B1otkYalkBM/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link The Stuckists, “An Open Letter to Sir Nicolas Serota”...

Jake and Phil are joined by Thomas Chatterton Williams to discuss Albert Murray’s The Omni-Americans and Thomas’ new memoir, Self-Portrait in Black and White Manifesto: Albert Murray, The Omni-Americans https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/543160/the-omni-americans-by-albert-murray--with-a-foreword-by-henry-louis-gates-jr/ Art: Thomas Chatterton Williams, Self-Portrait in Black and...