This was a really fun podcast

Tejas Srinivasan's comment about his podcast: "This week on Cultural Mixtapes, I sat down with jazz pianist Ethan Iverson to speak about the future of the music business, his genre-less work with The Bad Plus, and putting classical music in conversation with jazz."

Last year on Cultural Mixtapes, I spoke to Zayd Ayers Dohrn about his award winning Crooked Media podcast Mother Country Radicals. Listen on Spotify: spotify.link/PFGhv0426Cb

This week on Cultural Mixtapes: Jason Diamond and I try to figure out the suburban vibes. Whether it’s imagining life in a John Hughes movie or being astounded by the emotions in Philip Roth’s New Jersey, we try to understand America through suburbia. spotify.link/s5S7ZEZKdDb

And because Elon Musk’s new algorithm is determined to deprioritize external links from X 😭, check out my last tweet about the latest Cultural Mixtapes Interview with Jason Diamond!

Here’s Jason Diamond talking through his lens into the world. From Seinfeld to suburbia to Bradley Cooper & Leonard Bernstein, we cover it all in my latest Cultural Mixtapes Episode! Listen at the link in bio!

Between imagining a technocratic dystopia, and figuring out the role of AI in our future, @vauhinivara and I tackle Chat-GPT, creativity, and her new collection of stories THIS IS SALVAGED, out today from W. W. Norton & Company. Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6N3a7w…

With the House of Representatives in disarray, there couldn't be a more apt time for this conversation. For Cultural Mixtapes, I sat down with Cody Keenan, former The White House speechwriter for Barack Obama to speak about his book GRACE. Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6g0NKO…

Here is a clip of my Cultural Mixtapes Conversation with Cody Keenan. Politics, speechwriting, the Obama years, and finding Grace in our politics today—we covered all this and more. Listen at the link in bio!

New episode of Cultural Mixtapes! I spoke with @rachelkhong about her new novel REAL AMERICANS, upcoming from Alfred A. Knopf. We spoke about her writing process, her approach memory, and amongst other things, her love for persimmons. Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/3QKV334TQ…

sometimes a hemiola is a wonderful subversion of the barline, and sometimes it’s a pretentious signifier of musical sophistication

And once again, in an effort to circumvent Elon Musk’s broken algorithm, check out my last post about my Cultural Mixtapes interview with the wonderful Paul Lynch!

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Telling people they didn't see what they saw is not the way to respond to this.

There is absolutely no place for political violence in our democracy. Although we don’t yet know exactly what happened, we should all be relieved that former President Trump wasn’t seriously hurt, and use this moment to recommit ourselves to civility and respect in our politics.

If you don't have time to read 100 pages in a day, it's a lousy day.