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Private Life: A New York Review Podcast

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Private Life is a podcast from The New York Review, hosted by contributor Jarrett Earnest. Each episode offers intimate, in-depth conversations with distinguished voices from across the literary landscape—about their lives, their work, and the ideas that shape both. Along the way, they revisit pieces from the The New York Review of Books's robust sixty-year archive (some episodes of the podcast wi... more

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In this episode of Private Life, Lili Anolik joins Jarrett Earnest for a conversation about the life and legacy of Eve Babitz, in honor of the publication of New York Review Books’s Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were) (2026), a collection of... more

In the May 27, 2010, issue of The New York Review of Books, Ingrid D. Rowland wrote “Radiant, Angry Caravaggio,” a look at the tempestuous life and brilliant art of the painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. For this episode of Private Life, Rowl... more

In this episode of Private Life, the art historian Ingrid D. Rowland joins Jarrett Earnest for an in-depth discussion about art history and disegno, an Italian word for “design” that was also a Renaissance-era concept describing some artists’ ability... more

Private Life presents a bonus episode from our friends at Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast. Produced by the eponymous art gallery, Dialogues brings together artists, creatives, and intellectuals in conversation about what it means to make things ... more

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Lili Anolik
Biographer and author of Didion Babitz; authority on Eve Babitz
Author of Eve Babitz biographies; NYRB Classics editor
Episode: Lili Anolik on Eve Babitz, Her Legacy, and Unsent Letters
Ingrid D. Rowland
Author of Radiant, Angry Caravaggio
University/Writer (as discussed in essay)
Episode: “Radiant, Angry Caravaggio“ by Ingrid D. Rowland
Ingrid Rowland
Historian specializing in art history and the Renaissance
The New York Review of Books (contributor)
Episode: Ingrid D. Rowland on Art History, Raphael, and Disegno
Lisa Saltzman
Art historian, Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr College
Episode: Private Life x Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast
Martin Filler
Long‑time contributor to The New York Review of Books; architectural critic
The New York Review of Books
Episode: Martin Filler on Writing, Frank Gehry, and the Dramatic World of Architecture
Namwali Serpell
Novelist and essayist; author of On Morrison
Author and scholar
Episode: Namwali Serpell on Toni Morrison, Criticism, and Narrative Empathy
Gini Alhadeff
Reader of Nadja excerpt
Writer
Episode: Gini Alhadeff Reads from André Breton's ’Nadja’
Mark Polizzotti
Leading Breton scholar, translator of Nadja
The New York Review Books / translator of Nadja
Episode: Mark Polizzotti on André Breton, Translation, and Surrealism
Richard Hell
Punk rock pioneer, writer, and subject of Godlike and related works
Musician, Writer
Episode: Richard Hell on ’Godlike’ and Poetry as a Way of Life

Host

Jarrett Earnest
Host of intimate, informed literary conversations; long-standing contributor.

Reviews

4.9 out of 5 stars from 39 ratings
  • Love this

    Earnest is excellent at bringing forth people and their worlds and their writing . This is a place that has all but died and it’s so extraordinary to have a guide to revisit

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    mrs. right
    United States2 months ago
  • Insightful and interesting

    This has become my most favorite of podcasts. I came for Richard Hell and stayed for Morrison and Hardwick. If you love books, you will love this podcast.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Claude Maude
    United States2 months ago
  • Alissa Bennett RULES

    I would listen to Bennett reading the ingredients off a cold medicine bottle.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Jett K Crieger
    United States3 months ago
  • A treat

    It’s a joy to hear thoughtful, in depth interviews with such talented writers. I love that they couple the episodes with an audio version of the author’s relevant pieces.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Nycgirl1996
    United States3 months ago

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The show is valued for pairing archival material with contemporary context and readings.
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Private Life x Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast
Q: What is the significance of Hannah Arendt in relation to the Theses and the drawing?
Arendt carried copies of the Theses during her escape, read parts of Benjamin's work to companions on the voyage to New York, and later helped preserve and publish the text, highlighting the close-knit intellectual circle that protected their legacy.
Private Life x Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast
Q: How did the drawing travel with Benjamin during the upheavals of the late 1930s and early 1940s?
The drawing moved through friends and libraries, briefly staying with Gershom Scholem, later being kept by Benjamin, then passed to Bataille, Arendt, and ultimately ending up in Israel via networks that safeguarded it through exile and war.
Private Life x Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast
Q: So I wonder if we could just start with the absolute basics, which is when did Walter Benjamin come into possession of this drawing by Paul Klee?
Benjamin bought the Angelus Novus drawing a year after it was made and after seeing a show in Munich; his friendship circle and financial constraints made the purchase possible, setting off a chain of events that would define his later writings.
Ingrid D. Rowland on Art History, Raphael, and Disegno
Q: What did you learn from coordinating hand and eye in drawings?
I learned that drawing trains your eye to understand space, proportion, and foreshortening; it reveals how intelligent planning and manual labor converge in art, a realization that shaped my approach to teaching and writing about art history.
Ingrid D. Rowland on Art History, Raphael, and Disegno
Q: Can you explain what disegno means in this context?
Diseño or disegno is the core idea that drawing orders the mind; it connects observation with conceptual thinking, bridging the manual act of making with philosophical and cosmological order, a view reinforced by Vitruvius and Renaissance practitioners.

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A literary-arts interview series that pairs deep-dive conversations with prominent writers, critics, and scholars with explorations of archival essays and book-publishing projects. Episodes spotlight biographers, novelists, translators, and art historians, often tying classic NYRB pieces to contemporary culture and ongoing debates in literature, art, and criticism. Noteworthy is the blend of intimate personal storytelling with rigorous scholarly context—alongside occasional readings and archival material—that helps listeners understand how past ideas reverberate today. The show tends to attract listeners who value thoughtful criticism, reading culture, and cross-disciplinary conversations across literature, philosophy, and visual arts.

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5. Martin Filler
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