ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Thought Pieces, the podcast from celebrated publisher MACK, brings you the best of arts writing across literature, poetry and criticism. Each week, discover a new piece of writing, read by the artist or writer themself. Episodes include Moyra Davey on encountering Peter Hujar’s photographs through the archive, Ishion Hutchinson’s homage to the British artist Donald Rodney, Stephen Shore on the importance of the everyday, Tracy K. Smith’s poetic response to the photography of RaMell Ross and Amelia Abraham’s essay on the changing nature of sexual subcultures.
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Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 11 days
Average audio length:
15 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United Kingdom
16 episodes
since Sept. 20, 2021
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
In this final episode of Thought Pieces S2, listen to photographer Stephen Shore read from his experimental memoir Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography. Citing Mozart and Shakespeare, Shore writes about the importance of attending to the everyday, revealing the influences behind his seminal p…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Amelia Abraham reads her essay 'Paradise Lost: The Life and Death of Sexual Subcultures' from her new visual history of queer nightlife Sex, Clubs, Dissent. Abraham charts an underground history of sexual subculture from London's Spunk & Chain Reaction parties in 1980s Vauxhall to the San Franc…
In this episode, listen to Kelly & Maxwell Sultan read their favourite passages from Water Over Thunder: Selected Writings by their beloved husband & father, the great photographer Larry Sultan. They read extracts from throughout the collection, illuminating Sultan’s approach to photography…
Listen to Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and educator Tracy K. Smith interpret the photography of RaMell Ross into a lyrical and uncanny text. Taking five images from Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body (2023), Smith’s poem complements photographs taken by Ross in Hale County, Alabama, the setting o…
In this episode, artist Moyra Davey describes encountering Peter Hujar’s photographs through the archive. Reading from The Shabbiness of Beauty, Davey focuses on Hujar’s lesser-known work of farm animals and babies, culminating in a thoughtful reflection on the artist’s legacy and the inherent myst…
Jamaican poet and essayist Ishion Hutchinson reads ‘Splash Crowns: On Donald Rodney’ from Fugitive Tilts (2025). This piece is a tender homage to the life and work of British artist Donald Rodney, a leading figure of the BLK Art Group during the 1980s. Through careful observation and imagination, H…
What can instructional photographs teach us about ways of seeing? This is the question asked by artist Carmen Winant in the introduction to her book Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now (2021). Drawing from books, catalogues and pamphlets on bereavement, meditation, sex and childcare…
Our podcast Thought Pieces is back this spring, featuring episodes with Stephen Shore, Moyra Davey, Tracy K. Smith, Carmen Winant, Amelia Abraham, Ishion Hutchinson and more. Thought Pieces brings you the best of arts writing across literature, poetry, and criticism. Each week, discover a new piece…
In Ep. 8 of ‘Thought Pieces’, Ahndraya Parlato reads from her multi-faceted rumination on the contradictions and complexities of motherhood, 'Who is Changed and Who is Dead'. Drawing on her own experiences as both a parent and a child, Parlato strives to find clarity around the fundamental question…
In episode 7 of 'Thought Pieces,' Collier Schorr and Angel Zinovieff give an intimate reading of 'Notes on Tricks,' an explores the roles we inhabit as the photographer and the photographed, drawing on themes of closeness, sexuality, and the rescued relics of our childhoods.
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