25 stories by "Lucas Spiro"
Jack Taylor has always been a version of the reluctant detective, but now he seems more impotent than ever -- distracted, beat down, and very tired.
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Have no fear! The Arts Fuse podcast will be returning soon in a new format.
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We welcome community organizer and children's books writer Jacob Kramer to talk about breaking the rules. His work infuses revolutionary thought with childlike wonder, encouraging readers of…
Of course, history has not come to Deadwood to douse the smoldering embers of the past, but to supply more kindling.
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How seriously do we take country rap? Is it even a genre?
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Run time: 59:59 Download & subscribe: Patreon Spotify Apple Google Music Simplecast The boys (Lucas Spiro and Matt Hanson) are joined once again by Arts Fuse editor-in-chief Bill Marx, w…
The Arts Fuse welcomes a new character to its extended universe. Deanna Marie Costa, an editor and critic at the magazine.
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If you're a fan of the show or the magazine, you know , Arts Fuse writers are sworn adversaries of the dreaded algorithm.
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Producer Lucas Spiro messed up the audio for this episode -- and put this together so you wouldn't have to go without our sweet, sweet content.
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We need stories like The Wages to expose the hypocrisy and incoherence of the institutions that we are supposed to believe are pillars of justice.
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We were overjoyed to spend this episode with Pulitzer prize winning critic, poet, and teacher Lloyd Schwartz. Stick around for the poetry of Richard Milhous Nixon, too
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This fine collection of short fiction reinforces Richard Power's reputation as a master storyteller.
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Fuse writers Lucas Spiro and Matt Hanson once again bang their heads against the walls of some of art's big questions.
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Josh Begley, in a mere six minutes, demonstrates how impossible the notion of a border wall is, from an engineering and construction perspective.
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Is there a future for challenging non-corporate theater (i.e. the fringe), and what does that future look like?
I wanted the podcast to be both an honest reflection of what The Arts Fuse is, but also allow the voices that contribute to the magazine to find new ways of expressing their critiques in a n…
Pull up a chair and sit with us a while. We'll ring out this miserable year together and flip the calendar with, dare I say, some hope?
Jack Taylor's world is very much our world and his despair is our despair.
Brian Phillips uses the essay form to map the limits of America's cultural-historical imagination, from our highest achievements to our kitschiest expressions of who we think we are, and who…
There can be no future, Héctor Abad seems to be arguing, when everything you are is hidden away in a time you can never fully know.
To an extent, The Niceties does probe a fault line between the Democratic Party and the left: a boundary that will rupture sooner rather than later.
Thomas Clerc's novel reminds us of a stubborn truth: we are all narcissists that live to accumulate shit in rooms.
The critic settles too comfortably too often on a familiar trope -- Ireland's sense of promise squelched.
Evening at the Talk House is a savage indictment of our country's acceptance of the immense, horrific violence necessary to maintain our consumer comforts.
Gibney's volume offers a wide range of readers with an introduction to the complexities of Irish history, including questions of what exactly constitutes the national history itself.
