Manifesto!
Manifesto! A Podcast
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.
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
Mentioned books
May 28, 2022 • 1h 18min
Episode 43: Tradition and the Individual Talent
Jake and Phil discuss T.S. Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent", and James Joyce's "A Mother"
The Manifesto:
T.S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69400/tradition-and-the-individual-talent
The Art:
James Joyce, "A Mother"
http://www.online-literature.com/james_joyce/963/
Apr 11, 2022 • 1h 10min
Episode 42: The Transmogrifications of Gary Leib
Phil is joined by Peter Catapano, of the New York Times, and graphic novelist Jess Ruliffson to discuss Peter's essay on the life and work of cartoonist Gary Leib
The Manifesto:
Peter Catapano, “I’m Going to Make a Fire”: The Transmogrifications of Gary Leib
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/im-going-to-make-a-fire-the-transmogrifications-of-gary-leib/
The Art:
Gary Leib's animation for The Stone
https://vimeo.com/148232540
Leib's animations for the Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/opinion/01leib_bio.html
Other:
Pre-order Peter's forthcoming book, Question Everything
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324091837
Pre-order Jess' forthcoming graphic novel, Invisible Wounds.
https://jessruliffson.com/home.html
Mar 5, 2022 • 1h 45min
Episode 41: To Be Incarnational
Jake and Phil are joined by the great poet Tom Sleigh to discuss his essay "To Be Incarnational," on the World War I poetry of David Jones, as well as Tom's poem "In Which a Spider Weaves a Web on My Computer Screen"
The Manifesto:
Tom Sleigh, To Be Incarnational
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/70066/to-be-incarnational
The Art:
Tom Sleigh, "In Which a Spider Weaves a Web on My Computer Screen"
https://vimeo.com/669317283
Feb 4, 2022 • 1h 28min
Episode 40: Flannery O'Connor versus Andre Dubus II
Jake and Phil (finally) discuss Flannery O'Connor's Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction, alongside Andre Dubus II's short story Killings
The Manifesto:
Flannery O'Connor, Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction
https://bscc.instructure.com/courses/4608/files/434937/download?download_frd=1
Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMrveIu0DdE
The Art:
Andre Dubus II, Killings
https://www.uww.edu/documents/library/ersearch/er/moore_g/moore_101/dubuskillings_101_moore.pdf
Jan 6, 2022 • 1h 33min
Episode 39: What Jazz Is and Isn't
Jake and Phil are joined by jazz pianist and composer Ethan Iverson to discuss Wynton Marsalis' "What Jazz Is—and Isn't", as well as Marsalis' 1985 album J Mood.
The Manifesto:
Wynton Marsalis - "What Jazz Is—and Isn't",
https://wyntonmarsalis.org/news/entry/music-what-jazz-is-and-isnt
The Art:
Wynton Marsalis - J Mood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PerIfsVGl_0
Ethan Iverson's website:
https://ethaniverson.com/
The track played of Ethan's in the middle of the podcast is The Eternal Verities, off his upcoming album Every Note is True
https://store.bluenote.com/products/ethan-iverson-every-note-is-true#:~:text=Pianist%20and%20composer%20Ethan%20Iverson,and%20legendary%20drummer%20Jack%20DeJohnette.
Nov 10, 2021 • 1h 44min
Episode 38: My Quarrel with Authentic Reactionaries
Jake and Phil are joined by Joseph Keegin to discuss Nicolás Gómez Dávila‘s “The Authentic Reactionary,” and Chaim Grade’s classic of Yiddish literature: “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner”
The Manifesto:
Nicolás Gómez Dávila‘s “The Authentic Reactionary”
https://isi.org/modern-age/the-authentic-reactionary/
The Art:
Chaim Grade’s “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner”
https://mosaicmagazine.com/response/arts-culture/2020/12/my-quarrel-with-hersh-rasseyner/
Oct 7, 2021 • 1h 6min
Episode 37: Humane War
Phil is joined by Samuel Moyn to discuss his new book, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, alongside Kathe Kollwitz's The Survivors
The Manifesto:
Samuel Moyn - Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374173708/humane
The Art:
Kathe Kollwitz, The Survivors
https://aestronauts.com/post/114048762630/kathe-kollwitz-the-survivors
Sep 15, 2021 • 1h 12min
Episode 36: The Simple Art of Murder
Jake and Phil discuss Raymond Chandler's The Simple Art of Murder, alongside Ross MacDonald's novel Black Money.
The Manifesto:
http://jacksharman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Raymond-Chandler-Simple-Art-of-Murder.pdf
The Art:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/105230/black-money-by-ross-macdonald/
Jul 17, 2021 • 1h 23min
Episode 35: Did You Kill Anyone?
Jake and Phil are joined by Scott Beauchamp to discuss his new book, Did You Kill Anyone? Reunderstanding My Military Experience as a Critique of Modern Culture, and Alistair Macleod's "The Closing Down of Summer"
The Manifesto:
Scott Beauchamp, Did You Kill Anyone? Reunderstanding My Military Experience as a Critique of Modern Culture
Read an excerpt: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/did-you-kill-anyone
The Art:
Alistair Macleod, "The Closing Down of Summer"
https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393341188
May 19, 2021 • 1h 17min
Episode 34: Fratelli Tutti and Fairview
A special live episode of Manifesto! A Podcast courtesy of Fairfield University's Inspired Writers Series. Jake and Phil are joined by Vinson Cunningham, a theater critic and staff writer at the New Yorker, to discuss Pope Francis' Fratelli Tutti and Jackie Sibblies Drury's Fairview.
The Manifesto:
Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti
http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20201003_enciclica-fratelli-tutti.html
Jackie Sibblies Drury, Fairview
https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/jackie-sibblies-drury
Other work referenced:
Vinson Cunningham, Many and One
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/many-and-one-0
