Our Struggle

Wagner By The Park (with special guest Greg Jackson )

It's a repulsively glorious fall day in Brooklyn. Seeking respite from his upstate rustication, Greg Jackson comes to the city to ask us, "Who are you guys?" In trying to

About A Guy, With Some Guys (Featuring Willy Staley, Dean Kissick, and Sam Kriss)

We're so back, as they say, and we've recruited some struggle favorites to join us for a most unseemly return. We gather in Park Slope with 3 microphones, 4 dudes, and 1

White Chocolate Guys (ft. Sam Kriss)

In this episode with cult fave 6'4" writer SAM KRISS, all motifs are on the table - literally. Drew has been heroically managing dry January by replacing alcohol with wei

No One’s Beautiful and We’re All Gonna Die W/Alex Dimitrov

Love is boring and breakups are banal. Flight attendants are gay and have extraordinarily high body counts. We’re calling for a New Sensualism! Have you read The Line of

Vagaries and Vicissitudes: A 2nd Anniversary Call-in Special

As that haunting summer feeling takes hold, Lauren and Drew languidly reflect on another year of podcasting and readerly fellowship. Along the way they read some KOK and

Colonel Mustard with the Gerbil (ft. Jon Lindsey)

Good news: it's our first in-person recording in half a year. Bad news (a la Teddy St. Aubyn): Audio interface ran out of battery so it cuts off sorry Buy Jon's book: Bo

Bildongsroman (ft. Gary Shteyngart)

We're back! We're talkin schlong! We're on Patreon, finally! It's season 4....after taking a month and half off from the show to work on their tans, Lauren and Drew retu

Cafe Society (ft. Felix Biederman)

We're back! And joined by Felix Biederman, a promising young podcaster recently arrived in Los Angeles whom we condescended to let on the show. Although by no means a "bo

BONUS EP: The Northman (ft. Alec Niedenthal)

A lot of people when they realize that Drew is not on this episode are going to say I betrayed him but what you need to know is that we're actually POLY now and I can pod

Rhythm Time (ft. James Griffiths)

Finally! It's Rhythm Time! To discuss one of the most notorious and worst written passages of Book 2, we invited back our homie James Griffiths, the Welsh warrior and thr

Conception (ft. Andrew Lipstein)

Welcome back! This is a classic struggle, in which we were joined by our new friend, yet another Jewish writer named Andrew. You can buy his (Andrew Lipstein's) novel LAS

Love Qua Love (ft. Oded Even Or and Krithika Varagur)

In which we discuss Mating (Norman Rush's luminous 1991 novel), and mating. Happy Valentine's Day PS. Please buy our mug

Clown Hour

Alright folks - we finally got equipment for IRL recording but the catch is, we did too much IRL hanging out this weekend so by the time we figured out the equipment we w

Fanny and Alexander and Karl Ove (Xmas special)

THIS HOLIDAY SEASON, HELP US WORSHIP MAMMON! Link to store ---- In this end of the year Christmas special, our two Hebraic hosts convene to discuss the Yuletide-set Par

Free Associating at the Dog Park (ft. Kyle Chayka)

He was late; he always is. - Kyle C. doesn't seem too put off my his riff about misogyny in the kitchen, at least. - My Struggle, minimalist or maximalist? Is all aut

Beyond the Discourse of the Wind (ft. Mason)

A rainy Sunday night in ---. Two broadcasters, a man and a woman recently arrived from Central Park, convene in the cramped kitchen of the man's lodging with Malbec and P

Le Quotidian Pain (ft. Dasha Nekrasova)

She showed up smoking marlboro lights and talking about a ribbon store nearby. This was on west 38 street, where I’d rented, for 250 dollars, a studio for the recording s

Intimate Drizzle (ft. Emmie Francis and Luke Brown)

I have to go to Dayton Ohio in a second to visit my Aunt Bunny but long story short it was the afternoon of the Brooklyn Tote Bag Fest, Drew took shelter in the den of th

1ST ANNIVERSARY CALL-IN SHOW (PT. 2)

Drew is shirtless and eating 5% Fage. Lauren walks us through her coffee making process. We respond to a series of increasingly deranged missives and talk Marguerite Dura

1ST ANNIVERSARY CALL-IN SHOW (PT. 1)

Well we were GOING to do this all in one go but then Drew supposedly got recognized at local watering hole Clandestino by a listener who took him to the underworld (brook