The Colophon

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Featuring Patrick Hastings Megan Barnard Sarah MacDonnell Edward Conlon Adam Levin Charles Frederick Secrease Sammy Jay Duane Buotte Lochlann O’Mearáin Sage Mehta Micki Myers Martin Cox David Hirschman Jacqueline Bucovy Virginia Bartow Charles Tolkien-Gillett Rick Gekoski Support the show

We are pleased to present Episode 9 of Thornwillow's #Bloomsyear Centennial Reading of James Joyce's ULYSSES., SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS , featuring Jeremy Funke, Harry Cooper, Jim Periconi, Robert Seidman, Katie Vagnino, Duff Lambros, Sarah Funke Butler, Michael Gorman, Alan M. Klein, Sandy Neubauer, Rebecca Romney, and Amanda Gann. Support the show

We are pleased to present Episode 10 of Thornwillow's #Bloomsyear Centennial reading of James Joyce's ULYSSES. This episode features a number of readers from the University of New York at Buffalo - home to the largest collection of significant Joyce material in the world - reading in special locations and from unique copies of the book: James Maynard, Alison Fraser, Evviva Weinraub-Lajoie, Lilly Reynolds, Marie Elia, Kolbe Resnick, Scott Hollander, and Dipanjan Maitra. We are delighted to hear Tim Young's reading from the Beinecke Library at Yale University, as well as readings by Heather Pisani Weintraub, Sarah Boxer-Cooper, Selby Kiffer, Raphael Massie, Paul Fontana, Wynne Evans, Brad Klein, and Jonathan Greenberg. Support the show

We are pleased to present Episode 6 of Thornwillow's #Bloomsyear Centennial Reading of James Joyce's ULYSSES. Featuring Rebecca Pidgeon, Peggy O'Shea, Susan Morrison, Benjamin Dreyer, Luke Ives Pontifell, Ronan Teevan, Jami Floyd, Barrett Leddy, Khris Lewin, Joseph Post, Kirsten Vangness, Andrea Syglowski, Michael Simon Hall, and Brian Boyd reading Episode VII AEOLUS of James Joyce's ULYSSES. Support the show

We are pleased to present Episode 8 of Thornwillow's #Bloomsyear Centennial Reading of James Joyce's ULYSSES. Featuring Jay Frederick Krehbiel, Thomas Campbell Jackson, E.P. McRae, Clare Hutton, William Beekman, Monty Lowry Corry, Elaine Byrne, John Lilly, Patrick Butler, Joanne Byrne, Gordon Hecht, and Victoria Browne reading Episode VIII, LESTRYGONIANS of James Joyce's ULYSSES. Support the show

We are pleased to present Episode 6 of Thornwillow's #Bloomsyear Centennial Reading of James Joyce's ULYSSES. Featuring Paul Hecht, Tara Bandman, Michael DeRuggiero, Rosanne Cash, Phil Klay, Tine deVaron, Ronan Healy, Matt Salyer, Julius Boxer-Cooper, Col. Dave Harper, Peter Lerangis, Sean Desmond, Patrick Myles, Dorothy Marcic, Matt Heimer, Randy Cohen, and Brían F. O'Byrne reading Episode VI HADES of James Joyce's ULYSSES. Support the show

We are pleased to present Episode 5 of Thornwillow's #Bloomsyear Centennial Reading of James Joyce's ULYSSES. Featuring Salman Rushdie, Aedin Moloney, Turtle Bunbury, and Michael Schwartz reading Episode V, THE LOTUS EATERS of James Joyce's ULYSSES. Support the show

We are pleased to present Episode 4 of Thornwillow's #Bloomsyear Centennial Reading of James Joyce's ULYSSES. Featuring Declan Kiberd, Winsome Brown, and Stephen Fry reading Episode IV, CALYPSO of James Joyce's ULYSSES. Support the show

We are pleased to present Episode 3 of Thornwillow's #Bloomsyear Centennial Reading of James Joyce's ULYSSES. Featuring Edoardo Ballerini, David Mamet, Tamara Glenny, Richard Nash, Ally Bunbury, and Charl Brown reading Episode III, PROTEUS of James Joyce's ULYSSES. Support the show

We are pleased to present Episode 2 of Thornwillow's #Bloomsyear Centennial Reading of James Joyce's ULYSSES. Featuring Ronald Patkus, Kathleen Chalfant, and Will Hearst reading Episode II, NESTOR of James Joyce's ULYSSES. Support the show

We are pleased to present Episode 1 of Thornwillow's #Bloomsyear Centennial Reading of James Joyce's ULYSSES. Featuring Oliver Jeffers, Rob Doyle, Loudon Wainwright III, Alison Fraser, and Malachy McCourt reading Episode I, TELEMACHUS of James Joyce's ULYSSES. Support the show

Phil Klay, National Book Award Winner and Iraq War Veteran, and Colonel David Harper sit down with us to discuss our publication of Klay's story Ten Kliks South in collaboration with the Thornwillow West Point Fellows. While we reflect on the nature of modern warfare, we also remember the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and the conflicts that followed. Support the show

In this episode, we take a bold leap into the apocalyptic imagination of celebrated New Yorker cartoonist, Roz Chast. We discuss her newest publication with Thornwillow Press, How We Survived, and ponder the end of the world that was. Along the way, we ruminate on her extraordinary career as an artist and how art saves all. Support the show

This episode of "The Colophon" features a great friend of the Press, Morrie Heckscher, Curator Emeritus of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. While visiting the Press a few months back (which, during a pandemic, is starting to feel like a lifetime ago), Morrie sat down with us to discuss our latest collaborative project: Chippendale’s Drawings for The Director, which reproduces and publishes, for the first time, Thomas Chippendale’s original drawings for his 1754 volume, The Gentleman and Cabinetmaker’s Director. Learn more about this historic edition here: https://thornwillow.com/chippendale-director-heckscher-speelberg Support the show

Colonel Harper, Head of the Department of English and Philosophy at West Point, is a dear friend to the Press and visited to talk about our latest collaborative project, Beauty is the Beginning ofTerror. Along the way, he shared fascinating insights into the life and works of John Milton (one of his academic focus areas), censorship, and the freedom of ideas. Support the show

We sat down with Adam Gopnik, mainstay writer at the New Yorker, to discuss everything from becoming a professional writer to life as a dog in New York City. Support the show

We sat down with Harold Holzer, one of the world's leading scholars of Abraham Lincoln, and director of The Roosevelt House in New York City. This episode was taped in Franklin Delano Roosevelt's personal library, where, as Harold explains, he "learned to walk again" and where the New Deal got its start. Support the show