Private Life: A New York Review Podcast
https://www.nybooks.com
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 will feature newly recorded readings of these classic essays) to situate arguments within contemporary culture. The show also includes discussions of titles from our book publishing arm, New York Review Books, featuring talks with translator Mark Polizzotti on Andre Breton's surrealist masterpiece Nadja and musician Richard Hell on the re-issue of his novel Godlike. Other early episodes find Joyce Carol Oates ruminating on true crime, while Darryl Pinckney opens up about the perils of memoir and his formative friendship with essayist Elizabeth Hardwick. Private Life is a personable, expansive invitation for longtime subscribers and a new generation of readers alike to connect with the past, present and future of The New York Review.
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Frequent Guests
| Guest | Appearances | Hours | Most Recent |
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| Darryl Pinckney | 2 | 2026-02-18 | |
| Ingrid D. Rowland | 2 | 2026-05-20 | |
| Martin Filler | 2 | 2026-04-29 | |
| Richard Hell | 2 | 2026-03-18 | |
| Alissa Bennett | 1 | 2026-03-04 | |
| Elizabeth Hardwick | 1 | 2026-02-11 | |
| Gini Alhadeff | 1 | 2026-04-01 | |
| Joyce Carol Oates | 1 | 2026-02-25 | |
| Kathleen Chalfant | 1 | 2026-02-18 | |
| Lisa Saltzman | 1 | 2026-05-06 | |
| Lovia Gyarkye | 1 | 2026-04-15 | |
| Mark Polizzotti | 1 | 2026-03-25 | |
| Namwali Serpell | 1 | 2026-04-08 |
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