The Short Fuse Podcast

27/11/2023

Teju Cole, through his writing, encourages, insists, we engage with music, art and the man and woman sitting next to you on the Metro, as he considers and reflects on issues of identity, home, displacement, and history. Join us at the Center for Fiction as we read and journal exploring Teju Cole's Open City.

22/09/2023

Beyond Black Codes. Opening night, Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis and his orchestra. Always quite an evening when Naledi Masilo is there. She is booked to open the Jazz Festival in 2024. Included was The Struggle to Become Aware from The Integrity Suite written for the Supreme Court a decade ago.

19/09/2023

Tonight at the Corner Bookstore (at 6:00 pm) Nick McDonell talks about his book Quiet Street. Perhaps we’ll see you there?

18/09/2023

Tanya Weddemire’s gallery in Industry City. You might want to follow her.

15/09/2023

In the next short Fuse Elizabeth talks with Jasmine Rice LaBeija about performing in Drag. A conversation filled with laughter.

15/09/2023

Reading Faulkner on the 6 train.

13/09/2023

Reading Faulkner at .

13/09/2023

Marcus Pal. Performing.

13/09/2023

Harmonic Exclusion. Marcus Pal performing. A study of the perceptual effects and intangible qualities of harmonic sound.

10/09/2023

Talking drag and opera with Jasmine Rice LaBeija. First episode in the fall season.

10/09/2023

We’ll be talking about jazz and Sun Ra in a Short Fuse conversation.

10/09/2023

Bahauddin Dagar, performing the ruda veena,

19/08/2023

17/08/2023

Just arrived. Nina is in Iraq. Looking forward to reading.

17/08/2023

Flowers and books.

13/08/2023

We’re planning next season. You’ll see

13/08/2023

Of course.

13/08/2023

One feels safe in a place where the bookstore is open seven days of the week.

02/08/2023

Haven’t seen the movie…

29/07/2023

An addition to the summer reading list.

28/07/2023

Just received three books from Latah Books in Spokane, Washington. Latah is a Nez Perce word and the name of a creek with a vital stream flowing onward to greater waters. An independent press publishing the memoirs, the narratives and the stories that engage us. And will engage you.

28/07/2023

August reading. The influence of Faulkner. The texts that influenced Faulkner.

27/07/2023

Recalling performances of decades ago. Lovely to be here on a steamy, Manhattan evening.

26/07/2023

Ahmed Abdullah at the Strand talking about “A Strange Celestial Road.” A fascinating evening.

25/07/2023

Emmett Till’s name still catches in my throat, like syllables waylaid in a stutter’s mouth. …. Marilyn Nelson

25/07/2023

Pujarini Ghosh on AR Storytelling and Breaking Your Bubble. Step out, over and beyond to the new. At Cohort:Assemble at Lightbox. Thank you to the extraordinary Kirsten_n.

24/07/2023

A typical Short Fuse evening. And it’s just started.

24/07/2023

Just one of the exhibitions we found at in Queens this weekend. Just one stop on the 7 train from Grand Central. Music, food, art and a neighborhood with lots of cool cafes.

24/07/2023

Reading Death is Hard Work, often considered a restaging of As I Lay Dying. Join Elizabeth Howard leading a Faulkner reading group at . You’ll often find us in Brooklyn at the Center for Fiction drinking ginger lemonade and pursuing all the new titles.

22/07/2023

The color of editing.