ArtsFuse editor Bill Marx speaks with Gail Pool, the author of Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America, about the slow decline of literary criticism in the United States.

book reviewing, book reviews, Books, faint praise: the plight of book reviewing in America, fiction, Gail Pool, literature, non fiction, podcast

Bill Marx speaks with author Jonathan Levi, who recently looked for signs of literary life in a repressive Middle East country.
Addo Khal, dissident writing, Jonathan Levi, literature, Middle East, podcast

A conversation with Douglas Carlton Abrams, author of the erotically-charged novel “The Lost Diary of Don Juan: An Account of the True Arts of Passion and the Perilous Adventure of Love.”
Don Juan, Douglas Carlton Abrams, eros, fiction, lust, podcast, sex, sexuality, Spanish Golden Age

Bill Marx speaks with award-winning American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. Also, dancing away at the video arcade.
365 days/365 plays, american theater, literature, podcast, stage, Suzan Lori Parks, Theater

Not every critic is inspired by British playwright Tom Stoppard's epic, Tony award-winning trilogy about the trials and tribulations of the 19th century Russian radical Alexander Herzen..
Alexander Herzen, English, intelligencia, podcast, revolution, Russia, Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia

Bill Marx talks with the Fogg Art Museum’s Susan Dackerman about DISSENT!, an exhibit that surveys printmaking and the history of political protest.
Abu Ghraib, art, Dissent, Goya, Harvard Art Museums, Pablo Picasso, podcast, political art, printmaking, radical

In the first installment of “Condition Critical,” Bill Marx speaks with the author best known for his wryly written non-fiction books.
jonathan raban, podcast

This final ArtsCast features the conclusion of our series examining Boston at the cultural crossroads. Bill Marx speaks with Maureen Dezell who has written for the arts in various publications including the Boston Globe and the Phoenix and you have heard on the podcast interview various cultural movers and shakers about Boston lagging in cultural […]

In the past several podcasts, ArtCast has explored the competitive nature of cultural tourism in America today, focusing on how Boston has much to learn from Philadelphia, which is investing in new ways to bring more visitors into the city.
Continuing with that theme we hear from one of Beantown’s cultural mover and shakers, the […]

In the first half of this installment of ArtsCast, we focus on the cultural wars as experienced through the eyes of Gary Cole, who was on the fast track to become the number three man at the National Endowment for the Arts until his nomination was torpedoed.
According to the former Republican activist, GOP powerbrokers balked […]