All Your Days

Dec 03 2024 68 ep. 55 mins 17
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'All Your Days' features essays, conversations, reviews and roundups focusing on politics, culture, creativity, art, work, crisis, persistence, and how creative lives transform over time. Host: James O'Brien

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AYD Singles | Illiteracy: The inability to read is part of America’s bobsled ride into autocracy

Dec 03 2024 9 mins  
America can't read, and America is awash in shitty media that exploits its inabilities. The topic is illiteracy and democracy. The podcast is All Your Days.

AYD Singles | Chaos: Truckloads of shit pull up to deliver Bannon’s dream America

Nov 21 2024 8 mins  
Trump is not only following the Bannon playbook, in 2024, he's writing its next chapter. America has never put a shit-truck driver like this one in such a lethal lane and told him there’s no speed limit. The topic is chaos. The podcast is All Your Days.

AYD Singles | Goodness: America’s inner goodness is a dangerous myth

Nov 19 2024 10 mins  
The loss of inner goodness would be a thing to grieve in this land. Except America was never promising what we thought it was promising. Today's episode looks at goodness and the American psyche.

AYD Singles | Preparation: America's mental go-bag starts with a radical commitment

Nov 14 2024 5 mins  
For every person saying to an Other in their mind, “Fuck you, you’re on your own,” the survival tactic, friends, is the opposite. The tactic is simple and perhaps radically empathetic. The tactic is the topic of today's episode.

AYD Singles | Division: Lining up for the circular firing squad

Nov 12 2024 4 mins  
The 'All Your Days' podcast is back. Today's episode is about division. We're going to need a bigger stop sign.

AYD Singles | Oppression: Kicking the political Pepsi machine, hoping for a Coke

Nov 06 2024 4 mins  
All Your Days returns. The focus shifts. The imperative intensifies. Glad to have you along for the ride. Today's topic is oppression.

Lynn Gilbert (Part 2 of 2: Paths and Acknowledgements)

Jan 22 2024 47 mins  
Lynn Gilbert returns to the podcast for part two of a career-spanning conversation about her photography, finding her path with a camera on the Silk Road, iconic moments for her work at the 2022 Venice Biennale, and an 8-acre garden that has revealed something profound as she’s photographed its expanse. And we talk about the anxiety of creation, no matter the years or decades of

Lynn Gilbert (Part 1 of 2: Access and Satisfaction)

Jan 15 2024 49 mins  
Our guest is Lynn Gilbert, a massive contributor to 20th-century portrait photography — her photos of sculptor Louise Nevelson became the face of the Venice Biennale in 2022 — whose 1981 book of photos and essays, ‘Particular Passions,’ became a significant document of second-wave feminism. Lynn, with virtually no professional portfolio at the time, somehow brought tog

AYD Weekly | Lach Pt. 2 (Protections and Unfetterings)

Nov 20 2023 99 mins  
It’s part two of our conversation with Lach, who oversaw, curated and cared for The Fort, a little stage at the back of a bar that made an outsize impact on New York and the world in the 1990s and 2000s, fostering and keeping alive the flame of anti-folk and helping launch the careers of luminaries. Our second episode with Lach goes deeper into his life as a songwriter in hi

AYD Weekly | Lach Pt. 1 (Fortresses and Scenes)

Nov 13 2023 84 mins  
Please welcome the legendary Lach to your ears. Lower East Side/Edinburgh artist and producer and presenter, novelist, BBC radio host — you name it, he's probably done it. We go super deep into the history of anti-folk in NYC and the world, but that's just the surface of the thing. Memory, dreams, visions, heartbreak and triumph, life and death, love and letdowns — it's the ver