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- 🇮🇸IS · Books#163500 to 3K
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250 to 1.5K🎙 Weekly cadence·41 episodes·Last published 7mo ago - Monthly Reach
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500 to 3K🇮🇸100% - Active Followers
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/12/25 | Henry Rollins✨ | booksreading+2 | Henry Rollins | ApologyThe Stooges | — | Stooges historyStalin-era Russian writers+1 | — | 1h 51m 06s | |
| 4/17/24 | Kurt Vile✨ | biographiesmusic+2 | Kurt Vile | Apology | — | Denis JohnsonFlannery O'Connor+2 | Sci-Fi Fantasy | 1h 13m 44s | |
| 2/9/24 | Jonathan Lethem✨ | Julio Cortázaranimals in literature+6 | Jonathan Lethem | Brooklyn Crime NovelApology | — | literaturebooks+2 | Sci-Fi Fantasy | 1h 13m 37s | |
| 7/18/23 | Jamieson Webster on Freud✨ | Sigmund Freudpsychoanalysis+4 | Jamieson Webster | Apologythe Interpretation of Dreams | — | Interpretation of Dreamscase histories | — | 1h 58m 34s | |
| 7/13/23 | Eileen Myles on Pathetic Literature✨ | Pathetic LiteratureEileen Myles+3 | Eileen Myles | Pathetic LiteratureApology+1 | — | poetryliterature+1 | — | 1h 00m 57s | |
| 7/1/23 | Richard Hell✨ | writingpoetry+2 | Richard Hell | book of poetryApology | — | blank pagebad writer+1 | — | 1h 09m 37s | |
| 6/23/23 | Andre Gregory✨ | ProustFreud+2 | Andre Gregory | ApologyMy Dinner with Andre | — | theateracting+1 | — | 53m 43s | |
| 2/15/23 | Angel Olsen✨ | datingnarcissism+3 | Angel Olsen | Apology | — | recommendationsreading+1 | — | 50m 20s | |
| 12/18/22 | Jarvis Cocker✨ | J.D. SalingerSheffield+2 | Jarvis Cocker | Good Pop Bad PopApology | — | — | — | 1h 02m 50s | |
| 12/5/22 | Tom Scharpling✨ | booksmental health+2 | Tom Scharpling | Apology | New Jersey | — | — | 1h 31m 04s | |
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| 11/11/22 | David Means | On this episode, Apology editor and founder Jesse Pearson speaks with the writer David Means about his process; his new collection Two Nurses, Smoking; reading while watching football, the best story in James Joyce's Dubliners; and more. | — | ||||||
| 5/4/22 |  Lucy Sante | On this episode of Apology, the writer Lucy Sante talks with Jesse Pearson about many things including—but not limited to—Belgian vs. French surrealists, learning from the Jesuits, trans literature, Edmund Wilson, Elizabeth Hardwick, working at The Strand bookstore with various No Wave stars, and more! more! more! | — | ||||||
| 4/26/22 | Ed Templeton | On this episode of Apology, the artist and skateboarder Ed Templeton talks with Jesse Pearson about a lot of things including but not limited to: all the books he's got on his nightstand right now, patriotism, atheism, the Ghent Altarpiece, his family history, and his hometown of Huntington Beach, CA. | — | ||||||
| 4/6/22 | Daniel Arnold | On this episode the photographer Daniel Arnold speaks with Apology's Jesse Pearson about the ethics of street photography, his intimate connection to New York City, and dodging a felony charge. | — | ||||||
| 2/21/22 | Naomi Fry | On this episode, the New Yorker staff writer Naomi Fry talks about Martin Amis, Émile Zola, the '90s heyday of cultural studies, classic New Yorker stories, and more. | — | ||||||
| 1/14/22 | Simon Critchley | On this episode of the Apology podcast, the philosopher, teacher, and author Simon Critchley talks with Apology’s Jesse Pearson about mysticism, krautrock, the Marx Brothers, and his up-and-down history with the work of T.S. Eliot. | — | ||||||
| 12/31/21 | Dennis Cooper | On this episode of the Apology podcast, the writer Dennis Cooper talks about finding inspiration in the Jesus and Mary Chain, his teenage reading of the Marquis de Sade, his legendary punk literary fanzine Little Caesar, the kind of writing that crystal meth begets, and the George Miles cycle (a.k.a. his magnum opus). | — | ||||||
| 12/2/21 | Kelefa Sanneh | On this episode Apology editor Jesse Pearson talks with the writer Kelefa Sanneh about his new book Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres, being in the storied lineage of the New Yorker, and his punk rock bona fides. | — | ||||||
| 10/24/21 | Warren Ellis | On this episode, Apology founder and editor Jesse Pearson speaks with the musician and composer Warren Ellis about his new book Nina Simone’s Gum (which is actually about a piece of Nina Simone’s gum, but also about the nature of holy relics), Warren’s experiences with the supernatural in the form of Beethoven and a troupe of clowns, the wildlife sanctuary he recently started in Sumatra, and much more | — | ||||||
| 10/14/21 | CAConrad | Apology founder and editor Jesse Pearson speaks with the poet CAConrad about why they read nothing but poetry, the didacticism of the novel, their work with the tarot, their experiences with ghosts, their new book Amanda Paradise, and the centrality of ritual to their practice. CA reads a couple poems too! | — | ||||||
| 9/22/21 | A.S. Hamrah | On this episode of the Apology podcast, the film critic A.S. Hamrah offers up many book and movie recommendations, ruminates on what makes a critic a critic, and talks about writers from Samuel Beckett to Dawn Powell to Ben Hecht—as well as acknowledging what a dick Encyclopedia Brown was. | — | ||||||
| 8/28/21 | Ian MacKaye | On this episode of the Apology podcast, the musician Ian MacKaye talks about his mother’s writing, his childhood obsession with the Oz books, watching Kurosawa films with his son, reading Kurt Vonnegut on 9-11, and the secret meaning of the word "fugazi." | — | ||||||
| 4/6/21 | Rachel Kushner | The writer Rachel Kushner has an excellent new book of essays out now. It’s called The Hard Crowd. On this episode of the Apology podcast, Jesse Pearson speaks with Rachel about various topics she covers in the book (Marguerite Duras, prison abolition, motorcycle life) and some extra stuff too (Thom Jones, artists as writers, reading recommendations based on Rachel’s novels). Plus more, always more. | — | ||||||
| 3/9/21 | Bill Callahan | On this episode of the Apology podcast, the songwriter, musician, writer, and artist Bill Callahan speaks with Apology founder and editor Jesse Pearson about many bookish and non-bookish topics including the brilliance of the writer Barry Hannah, Bill’s codebreaker parents, DC hardcore heroes Void, dropping out of college to focus on music, the Scottish writer James Kelman, Studs Terkels’s oral histories, the dogged grind of songwriting, the brilliance of Emily Dickinson, and way more. | — | ||||||
| 2/3/21 | Brontez Purnell | On this episode of the Apology podcast the writer, dancer, filmmaker (and more) Brontez Purnell talks with Apology’s Jesse Pearson about writing his excellent new novel 100 Boyfriends, Maya Deren as the secret progenitor of TikTok, LA queer punk legend Sean deLear, and Sylvia Plath’s science fiction… and all that’s just the tip of the iceberg. | — | ||||||
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Chart Positions
1 placement across 1 market.
Chart Positions
1 placement across 1 market.