Hosts Amy Sohn, Harry Siegel and others sit down each week to commune with artists, writers, critics, cranks, visionaries and loons and how their work, and their lives, relate to the past, present and future of New York.
The podcast is a project of The City, a nonprofit newsroom serving the people of New York.
Joel Feingold, the researcher who worked with the late historian Mike Wallace on the final two books of his epic Gotham trilogy, including the newly published Gotham at War, visits Lit NYC to talk with Harry Siegel about what went into making an epic poem of the city weaving accurate history into myth to try and tell nothing less than the story of the whole world, New York's In Uno Plures tradition — Out of One, Many — as a correction to the American motto, still printed on our money, of ...
14 Aug 2026
Sam Roberts´ Art of the Obit
New York Times obituarist Sam Roberts talks with Harry Siegel about his new book, Are They Dead Yet, writing about the dead on deadline, and much more.
17 Jul 2026
R Sikoryak´s Declaration/Emancipation Illustrated
For the last decade, artist, animator, illustrator and performer R Sikoryak has been putting America’s founding documents into conversation with iconic images and characters from comics and cartoons. That started with the Constitution — “there’s a document everyone says you should read and I wanted to make it readable by adding visuals” — and his new book, Declaration / Emancipation Illustrated, continues with those two documents along with the Gettysburg Address. In a wide-rangin...
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