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3 weeks ago | 
timesensitive.fm | Anders Byriel |Spencer Bailey |Andrew Zuckerman
Interview by Spencer Bailey For as long as he can remember, Leonard Koren has been searching for beauty and pleasure. Throughout his career, the author and artist—he prefers the term “creator”—has spent considerable time putting to paper expressions and conceptual views that architects, artists, designers, and others have long struggled to find the proper framing of or words for.
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1 month ago | 
timesensitive.fm | Anders Byriel |Spencer Bailey |Andrew Zuckerman
Interview by Spencer Bailey Since publishing his debut essay collection—Video Night in Kathmandu, featuring far-flung reportage from 10 Asian countries—in 1988, the prolific travel writer Pico Iyer has gone on to write more than a dozen books exploring themes ranging from displacement and identity to globalization and technology.
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1 month ago | 
timesensitive.fm | Anders Byriel |Spencer Bailey |Andrew Zuckerman
Interview by Spencer Bailey Faye Toogood is perhaps best known for her Roly-Poly chair, among the more famous pieces of furniture to come out of the 2010s and take over the zeitgeist, but the London-based designer’s artistry and craft runs much deeper and spans much wider.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
timesensitive.fm | Anders Byriel |Spencer Bailey |Andrew Zuckerman
Interview by Spencer Bailey Richard Christiansen believes that the true definition of luxury is having one’s senses on full blast—seeing, tasting, smelling, hearing, and touching the world around by engaging in its beauty and bounty to the fullest.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
timesensitive.fm | Anders Byriel |Spencer Bailey |Andrew Zuckerman
Interview by Spencer Bailey To the majority of humankind, rocks may appear to be static, timeless objects that always were and always will be, but not to the geologist Marcia Bjornerud. In her mind, rocks are rich pieces of text that have evolved (and continue to evolve) across millennia, and are therefore incredibly timeful. “They almost demand reading,” Bjornerud says on this episode of Time Sensitive.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
timesensitive.fm | Anders Byriel |Spencer Bailey |Andrew Zuckerman
Time Sensitive is a podcast featuring candid, revealing long-form conversations with leading minds about their life and work through the lens of time. Host Spencer Bailey interviews each guest about how they think about time broadly and how specific moments in time have shaped who they are today. THE HOST: SPENCER BAILEYSpencer Bailey is the editor-in-chief of The Slowdown. He is also the editor-at-large of book publisher Phaidon.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
timesensitive.fm | Anders Byriel |Spencer Bailey |Andrew Zuckerman
Interview by Spencer Bailey Perhaps best known for his novels Motherless Brooklyn (1999), The Fortress of Solitude (2003), and Chronic City (2009)—or, more recently, Brooklyn Crime Novel (2023)—the author, essayist, and cultural critic Jonathan Lethem could be considered the ultimate modern-day Brooklyn bard, even if today he lives in California, where he’s a professor of English and creative writing at Pomona College.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
timesensitive.fm | Anders Byriel |Spencer Bailey |Andrew Zuckerman
Interview by Spencer Bailey In the eyes of the architecture critic Paul Goldberger, a building is a living, breathing thing, a structure that can have a spirit and even, at its best, a soul.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
timesensitive.fm | Anders Byriel |Spencer Bailey |Andrew Zuckerman
Interview by Spencer Bailey The artist Francesco Clemente may have been born and raised in Naples, but—having lived and worked around the world, including in Rome, India, New York City, and New Mexico—he considers himself a citizen of no place. “I like to imagine I belong to a different civilization, if not a different planet altogether,” Clemente says on this episode of Time Sensitive.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
timesensitive.fm | Anders Byriel |Spencer Bailey |Andrew Zuckerman
Interview by Spencer Bailey In Sarah Lewis’s new book, The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America (Harvard University Press), the historian and Harvard professor unpacks a major part of United States history that until now wasn’t just brushed over, but was intentionally buried: how the Caucasian War and the end of the Civil War were conflated by P.T. Barnum, former President Woodrow Wilson, and others to shape how we see race in America.
