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

James Romberger
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Getting Real with James Romberger
Jason Mojica · Posted on November 8, 2019November 8, 2019

The first issue of Romberger’s For Real is an engrossing tribute to–and an analysis of–comics legend Jack Kirby In the mid-2000s I eked out a living writing art reviews for Time Out Chicago. It’s hard for me to remember how the arrangement came about, because I had no particular expertise in the art world. I …

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Anna Fifield – The Modernist Society Episode 3
The Modernist · Posted on 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 · Posted on 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.

Jake Adelstein on The Modernist Society
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The Modernist Society Returns!
The Modernist · Posted on August 15, 2019November 21, 2019

After a ten year hiatus, The Modernist Society returns in podcast form. The Modernist Society began in 2003 as a DJ night in Chicago, became a debaucherous salon in DC, and comes to you now as a podcast wherever you happen to be. Each month, hosts Jason Mojica and Eric Ottens bring you intimate conversations with practitioners of …

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Meet Kim Jong Un’s Unauthorized Biographer
Jason Mojica · Posted on June 11, 2019August 16, 2019

Anna Fifield has written a deeply-sourced, rigorously researched portrait of one of the most elusive–and ruthless–leaders on the world stage. Few books about North Korea could rightfully be called “page-turners,” but Anna Fifield’s The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un, is one of them. In it, Fifield has painstakingly reconstructed …

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The best journalism book of 2019 came out in 2018
Jason Mojica · Posted on May 31, 2019August 16, 2019

Charlie LeDuff’s Sh*tshow! is as much a critique of the news media as it is a portrait of the United States during a period of significant change. The dog ate my homework. I should have published something about Charlie LeDuff’s book, Sh*tshow!: The Country’s Collapsing and the Ratings Are Great, a year ago when it first came …

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