Manifesto!
A Podcast
About the show
Your regular visit to the archives of vanity, where men and women who stopped making myths turned to issuing commandments.
Your guides for this journey are the writers Phil Klay and Jacob Siegel, along with their trusty engineer, Jacqui Rigazio
May you continue to be a person.
Manifesto! Is now sponsored by Fairfield University, a Jesuit University in Fairfield Connecticut. Fairfield’s mission is to develop the creative intellectual potential of students and to foster in them ethical and religious values and a sense of social responsibility. Phil also teaches at Fairfield, in both their undergraduate English department and in their Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. We’re very pleased to be associated with Fairfield, and thank them for their sponsorship.
Episodes
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Episode 31: Everything is Broken
February 12th, 2021 | 1 hr 53 mins
Jake and Phil are joined by Alana Newhouse to discuss her essay “Everything Is Broken” and the Ani DiFranco live album “Living in Clip.”
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Episode 30: King Lear or Endgame or Psalm
January 4th, 2021 | 1 hr 14 mins
Jake and Phil discuss Jan Kott's "King Lear or Endgame" and George Oppen's "Psalm."
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Episode 29: What Were We Thinking
December 3rd, 2020 | 2 hrs 2 mins
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.
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Episode 28: They Will Eat the CIA Men First
September 29th, 2020 | 1 hr 40 mins
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.htmlThe Art: Charles Ridley, 1941, Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk (assisted by the Gestapo 'Hep-Cats')
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Episode 27: The Owl of Minerva Trots at Dusk
August 13th, 2020 | 2 hrs 1 min
Phil and Jake are joined by Ian Marcus Corbin to discuss Joseph Conrad's Preface and Saul Bellow's "Mosby's Memoirs"
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Episode 26: On Pain and on Fallujah Revisited
July 6th, 2020 | 1 hr 32 mins
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.
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Episode 25: The Plague
June 6th, 2020 | 1 hr 40 mins
Jake and Phil are joined by Paul Berman to discuss The Plague, by Albert Camus
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Episode 24: Vietnam Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry
April 20th, 2020 | 55 mins 59 secs
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 Sorry
http://gustavhasford.blogspot.com/2013/01/vietnam-means-never-having-to-say-youre.htmlThe Art:
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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.
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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.
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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
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Episode 20: The Conversation
January 27th, 2020 | 1 hr 14 mins
Jake and Phil answer questions from you, our listeners.
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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#manifestArt:
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.
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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