Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Mark Alan Stamaty talks about the process of turning his beloved comic strip into a graphic novel that New York Review Books calls “a thrilling, surprising, unexpectedly moving ode to art, life, and New York City.”
Every week, from 1978–1979, The Village Voice brought a new installment of Mark Alan Stamaty’s uproarious, endlessly inventive strip “MacDoodle St.”
Centering more or less on Malcolm Frazzle, a blocked poet struggling to complete his latest lyric for Dishwasher Monthly, Stamaty’s creation encompassed a dizzying array of characters, stories, jokes and digressions.
Today, in studio, Leonard talks with Alexander Newley, the British artist best known for his ‘portrait of a portrait’ type paintings of some of...
Today Leonard talks to Elizabeth Anderson In her book “Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (And Why We Don’t Talk About It),” Elizabeth...
Today, Leonard’s conversation is with economist Idrees Kahloon and Ben Freeman of the Center for International Policy talking about foreign policy. And discussing Kahloon’s...