Jacob Siegel

Episode 23: Lord Jim and the Absurd

April 4th, 2020  |  1 hr 18 mins

A special crossover episode with the Sacred and Unknown Love Podcast. Jennifer Frey and Phil Klay discuss Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim, narrative identity and the absurd.

Episode 22: Reluctant Prophets

March 4th, 2020  |  1 hr 29 mins

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.

Episode 21: Class War and Auden

February 17th, 2020  |  1 hr 33 mins

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

Episode 20: The Conversation

January 27th, 2020  |  1 hr 14 mins

Jake and Phil answer questions from you, our listeners.

Episode 19: Stuckists and Bebop

December 15th, 2019  |  1 hr 43 mins

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/

Episode 18: Omni-Americans and Unlearning Race

October 16th, 2019  |  2 hrs 33 mins

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 White
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/617884/self-portrait-in-black-and-white-by-thomas-chatterton-williams/9780393608861

Episode 17: The Unabomber and OK Computer

September 5th, 2019  |  1 hr 33 mins

Jake and Phil talk with Jake Hanrahan of Popular Front (https://www.popularfront.co/) about Ted Kaczynski’s Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and It’s Future and Radiohead’s OK Computer.

Episode 16: Walcott's New Adam and Gallant's Latehomecoming

August 1st, 2019  |  1 hr 47 mins

Jake and Phil are joined by essayist and fiction-writer Victoria Brown of Rollins College to discuss Derek Walcott’s The Muse of History alongside Mavis Gallant’s The Latehomecomer

Episode 15: Dadism and Public Enemy

July 3rd, 2019  |  1 hr 41 mins

Jake and Phil discuss Hugo Ball's 1916 Dada Manifesto, as well as Public Enemy's 1988 album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.

Episode 14: New Conservative Manifestos and My Father Left Me Ireland

June 4th, 2019  |  2 hrs 30 mins

A new episode of Manifesto! A Podcast with special guest Michael Brendan Dougherty
Jake, Phil and Michael discuss three new conservative manifestos and Michael’s memoir, My Father Left Me Ireland.

The Manifestos:
First Things, Against the Dead Consensus https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/03/against-the-dead-consensus
Gladden Pappin, Toward a Party of the State https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/02/toward-a-party-of-the-state/
Daniel McCarthy, A New Conservative Agenda https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/03/a-new-conservative-agenda

The Art:
Michael Brendan Dougherty, My Father Left Me Ireland https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/591812/my-father-left-me-ireland-by-michael-brendan-dougherty/9780525538653/

Episode 13: Personism and Ellen West

May 6th, 2019  |  1 hr 28 mins

Jake and Phil discuss America's greatest poets named Frank, with Frank O’Hara’s "Personism Manifesto" and Frank Bidart’s “Ellen West”

Episode 12: Accelerationism and Big Sex Object Mirrorfaces

February 28th, 2019  |  1 hr 33 mins

Jake and Phil discuss several accelerationist manifestos along with the video American Reflexxx, by Alli Coates and Signe Pierce.

Episode 11: The Modern Essay and the Decline of Civilization

January 5th, 2019  |  1 hr 48 mins

Park MacDougald joins Phil and Jake to discuss Virginia Woolf’s “The Modern Essay” and VS Naipaul’s “Jacques Soustelle and the Decline of the West.”

Episode 10: Violence according to Hannah Arendt and Frank Miller

December 6th, 2018  |  1 hr 23 mins

Jake and Phil discuss Hannah Arendt's "Reflections on Violence" and Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns."

Episode 9: The Oulipo and the Naked City

November 8th, 2018  |  1 hr 28 mins

Jake and Phil are joined by Olivia Garard (@teaandtactics) of The Strategy Bridge (https://thestrategybridge.org/editorial-team/2016/8/16/olivia-a-garard) to discuss Oulipo member Anne Garréta's "On Bookselves" and Guy Debord’s “The Naked City”

Episode 8: Resentments, Justice, and the Sins of the Father

October 10th, 2018  |  1 hr 28 mins

Jake and Phil overcome audio difficulties to discuss Jean Amery's "Resentments" and Andre Dubus II's short story "A Father's Story."