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Talking Zines with Quimby’s founder Steve Svymbersky – The Modernist Society Ep. 4

The Modernist · November 20, 2019November 21, 2019

On the 4th episode of the The Modernist Society podcast, we talk about the past, present, and future of zines and zine culture with Steve Svymbersky, who founded the original Quimby’s (Qvimby’s Qveer Store) in Chicago in 1991 and in 2017 returned to the game with Quimby’s Bookstore NYC. We wax nostalgic about 1990s Wicker …

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Anna Fifield – The Modernist Society Episode 3

The Modernist · November 3, 2019November 21, 2019

Joining us this time is Anna Fifield, she’s currently the Beijing bureau chief for the Washington Post, but before that she was the Post’s Tokyo bureau chief, which also meant covering the Koreas. She is the author of what we think is the best book on North Korea out there– The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny …

A shirtless Thomas Morton recording an episode of The Modernist Society

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Thomas Morton – The Modernist Society episode 2

The Modernist · September 18, 2019November 21, 2019

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to get detained in Nigeria with legendary VICE correspondent Thomas Morton, have we got a show for you. To be clear, he does not talk about being detained in Nigeria (which did happen back when he and and The Modernist Society co-host Jason Mojica were doing a story about West African Truckers), but this very episode is, in effect, a good analog of that situation: we’re locked down to a fixed geographic location, passing the time by talking about whatever esoteric shit comes to mind until at some seemingly random moment… it’s over.