The Colophon

The Colophon

We sit down with our favorite artists and writers to discuss things that inspire us.

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July 7, 2023 147 mins

Judy | Collins
Aidan | Collins
Jess | Butterbaugh
Kevin | Galvin
Richard F.  | Uphoff
Christine | Vonderlinn
Michael | Higgins
David | Fleming
Fionnuala | Brabazon
Michael | Schulman
Eve | Herzog
Ben | Loory
Robin | Berg
Sarah  | Butler
Cecil | Castelucci
Megan | Gaskell
Emma | Froelich-Shea
Catherine | FitzGerald
Richard | Uphoff
David | Rawson
Gregg |...

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Glenn | Johnston
Alison | Armstrong
Dawn Akemi | Saito
Christina | Aruffo
Mary | Hawkes-Greene
Michael | Weisenburg
Michael | Weisenburg
Erin | Anderson
Mark | Hussey
Thomas | Rike
Chris | Cahill
Andrew | Solomon
Taylor | Nichols
Carolyn | Farina
Chris  | Eigeman

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Colum | McCann
Daniel | Mulhall
Meagan Adele | Lopez
Sean | Conlon
Maggie | Vanderford
William C. | Mottolese
Forrest | Preece
Anna | Dunlea
Carolyn | Vega
Declan | Kiely
Ian | Fowler
Heather | O'Donnell
Zachary | Bos
Colum | McCann
Jonathan | Goldman
Annie | Rowlenson
Anthony | Appiah
Betsy | Bradley
Cristina | Favretto
Zachary | Bos

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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

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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, Ko...

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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. 


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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.

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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.

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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&...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.


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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.


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September 13, 2021 81 mins

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. 

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July 22, 2021 46 mins

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. 
 

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June 4, 2020 69 mins

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 fir...

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July 15, 2019 66 mins

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.

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April 6, 2019 59 mins

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.

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April 5, 2019 66 mins

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.

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