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The Short Fuse Podcast

The Short Fuse Podcasts, hosted by Elizabeth Howard, are conversations with artists, writers, musicians and others whose art reveals our communities through their lens and stirs us to seek change. "Artists are here to disturb the peace." James Baldwin The Short Fuse is produced by the Arts Fuse, the online journal of arts commentary and criticism.

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00:35:44

Bad Bad Girl

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2025/12/09

Gish JenGish Jen's work has been included in The Best American Short Stories five times, including in The Best American Short Stories of the Century. A fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she has received NEA, Guggenheim, and Radcliffe fellowships, a Lannan Literary Award, and a five-year Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award. Her short work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, and many

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00:45:01

Broadway, Bars & Fortune

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2025/11/18

Fortune SocietyFounded in 1967, The Fortune Society’s vision is to foster a world where those who are incarcerated or formerly incarcerated will thrive as positive, contributing members of society. This is achieved through a holistic, one-stop model of service provision.The Fortune Society's continuum of care is informed and implemented by professionals with cultural backgrounds and life experiences similar to those of the participants. They serve thousands of individuals annually through New

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00:43:07

Shakespeare in South Africa: Now and Then

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2025/10/14

Chris ThurmanChris Thurman is Director of the Tsikinya-Chaka Centre at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is co-editor, with Sandra Young, of Global Shakespeare and Social Injustice: Towards a Transformative Encounter (2023). He is also editor of South African Essays on ‘Universal’ Shakespeare (2014), Sport versus Art: A South African Contest (2010) and sixteen volumes of the journal Shakespeare in Southern Africa. His other books are the monograph Guy Butler: Reassessing a South African

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00:35:06

Mother Africa: Celebrating African Jazz at Lincoln...

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2025/09/19

Seton Hawkin Seton Hawkins is the Director of Public Programs and Education Resources at Jazz at Lincoln Center. He leads the organization's Swing University teaching initiative. In addition, he has worked as a producer, manager, publicist, radio DJ, and advocate in jazz for more than a decade. He has written extensively for Hot House Jazz and for AllAboutJazz.com, with a particular emphasis on the jazz scene of South Africa. Outside of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Seton is a radio host for SiriusXM's

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00:32:14

Open Book: Reading South Africa

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2025/08/19

Open Book FestivalThe Open Book Festival is a trusted space in which difficult conversations are possible. The festival, at its core, recognizes the importance of books to explore the world. Writers and their work is at the center of the Festival, along with the audience. We believe that the meaningful conversation is impossible, without the representation of the audiences. Book LoungeThe Book Lounge is located at 71 Roeland Street in Cape Town. Karavan PressKaravan Press is an independent

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00:18:04

Bearing Witness: theatre in South Africa

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2025/08/13

Malcolm D. Purkey Born to Cockney Jewish immigrant parents who were entertainers, Malcolm Purkey is an actor, director, playwright, influential drama lecturer, and theatre administrator. He holds a BA and Honours from University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, an MA in Theatre Studies from the State University New York, is a Fulbright Scholar and he is a Graduate of the British Film School. His career and contribution to theatre is monumental. It started in the mad bohemian world of Adam Leslie

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00:34:15

Reading the City with Tyler Wetherall

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2025/04/07

SUBCRIBE TO READING THE CITYOrder Tyler Wetherall's novel AmphibianAbout Reading the City "Reading the City" is a weekly newsletter of bookish events in and around NYC, a weekly diary of upcoming New York literary life on a need-to-know basis. No long blurbs, no reviews, just book events of all stripes. "Reading the City" links to the author’s books, website, or social pages when possible. Tyler Wetherall, the founder and editor, is a believer in the power of the literary community to raise each

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00:36:46

Reading and Talking Film: Sonya Chung, Film Forum

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2025/02/26

Sonya Chung is the author of the novels The Loved Ones (Relegation Books, 2016) and Long for This World (Scribner, 2010). She is a staff writer for the The Millions and founding editor of Bloom, and is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize nomination, the Charles Johnson Fiction Award, the Bronx Council on the Arts Writers’ Residency, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a Key West Literary Seminars residency, a Studios of Key West residency, and an Escape to Create residency. Sonya’s stories, reviews, &

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00:34:15

Other People's Museums

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2024/09/04

Adam KuperProfessor Adam Kuper is an anthropologist and public intellectual. He has held positions at a number of universities and is a recipient of the Huxley Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Kuper is the author or editor of 19 books and has published over 100 journal articles focusing on anthropological theory, the history of anthropology in the US and Britain, and southern African societies and cultures. He has made numerous appearances on BBC TV and radio, and reviewed regularly

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00:37:33

The Swans of Harlem

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2024/07/09

The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and the Reclamation of Their Groundbreaking History By: Karen ValbyThe forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas, the first principals in the Dance Theatre of Harlem, who traveled the world as highly celebrated stars in their field and whose legacy was erased from history until now.At the height of the Civil Rights movement, Lydia Abarça was a Black prima ballerina with a major international dance

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00:32:11

Faulkner's Influence

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2024/05/09

Yoknapatawpha and Faulkner Conference in Oxford, Mississippi This is the longest continually running literary conference in the United States dedicated to the work of one author. This is the 50th Anniversary of the Conference, first held in 1974. Square Book Store, Oxford, Mississippi Square Books is a general independent bookstore in three separate buildings (about 100 feet apart) on the historic town square of Oxford, Mississippi, home of the University of Mississippi and many great writers,

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00:25:34

"Authentic"

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2023/12/19

Elizabeth Howard began hosting and producing the Short Fuse during the pandemic years. Those days when we were shuttered in our rooms. Displaced. Disoriented. Since then she has hosted 33 conversations, created a YouTube channel for online Short Fuse reading groups, and held live events at P&T Knitwear in New York, the Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge, and at the Portsmouth Athenaeum in New Hampshire. You can find all of the Short Fuse conversations on the Short Fuse website.Dell'Aria Cafe is at 232

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00:32:13

Arts Commentary and Criticism: The Canary in the Coal...

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2023/11/16

The Arts Fuse is an on-line magazine designed to preserve the craft of professional arts criticism, while also looking for ways to explore new and innovative ways to evolve the cultural conversation and bring together critics, readers, and artists. Substantial criticism -- by sparking lively, contentious dialogue about the strengths, weaknesses, and contributions of the arts -- plays an indispensable role in the cultural ecology. Smaller, newer organizations are fostered by debate and evaluation

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01:01:01

Winnie and Nelson Mandela through the lens of time...

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2023/11/03

Justice Malala, is one of South Africa’s foremost political commentators and commentators and the author of the bestseller We Have Now Begun Our Decent: How to stop south Africa losing its way. He has been a columnist for the Times in SA, and written for the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian and the Financial Times. He now lives in New York.Jonny Steinberg is the author of several books about everyday life in the wake of South Africa’s transition to democracy. He is a

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00:31:18

The Book Post USA

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2023/10/19

Ann Kjellberg founded Book Post, a newsletter-based book review, in 2018. Book Post publishes short book reviews by distinguished figures in literature, history, science, social sciences, and the arts. Kjellberg also reports for Book Post on the book industry, journalism, and the state of writing and ideas. Her essays have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Observer, The Browser, and LitHub. She was on the editorial staff of the New York Review of Books from 1988 to 2017, and from 1985 to

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00:32:18

Jasmine Rice Labeija from Juilliard to performing as...

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2023/09/21

Jasmine Rice LaBeija the International Godmother of the Royal House of LaBeija is an iconic and respected entertainer. In 2017, she was one of the leading cast members in the documentary series Shade, Queens of New York City, on Fusion Network. She has been a host of Dragged, which won a Shorty Award in Diversity and Inclusion for Verizon's network In the Know and she was the face of New York City's 2020 Pride. Jasmine is a graduate of the Juilliard School and made her opera debut at the Shell

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00:56:25

The Plot to Save South Africa

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2023/07/17

Justice Malala is one of South Africa’s foremost political commentators and the author of the #1 bestseller We Have Now Begun Our Descent: How to Stop South Africa Losing its Way. A longtime weekly columnist for The Times (South Africa), he has also written for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and Financial Times, among other outlets. The former publisher of The Sowetan and Sunday World, he now lives in New York.

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00:43:13

Unfamiliar Terrain

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2023/04/19

Kyle Dacuyan is a poet, performer, and translator. His poem have appeared in DIAGRAM, Lambda Literary, Foundry, and Best New Poets, among other places. He is the recipient of scholarships from Poets House, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Academy of American Poets. Prior to joining The Poetry Project, he served as co-director of National Outreach and Membership at PEN America, where he led the launch of a nationwide community engagement fund for writers

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00:57:28

Reflections from Turtle Island

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2023/04/05

Joshua WhiteheadJoshua Whitehead is a Two-Spirit, Oji-nêhiyaw member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Calgary where he teaches Indigenous literatures and cultures with a focus on gender and sexuality. His book of poetry, full-metal indigiqueer (Talonbooks 2017), was shortlisted for the inaugural Indigenous Voices Award and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. His novel, Jonny Appleseed (Arsenal Pulp Press 2018), established Joshua Whitehead as one

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00:54:49

Free Tasha Shelby

The Short Fuse Podcast ·

2023/02/15

Free Tasha Shelby is the website where you can learn more about Tasha's case. To support Tasha:Governor Tate Reeves: C Governor’s office, call 601-359-3150/ email governor@govreeves.ms.gov.Lynn Fitch, Mississippi Attorney General: 601.359.3680/P.O. Box 220, Jackson MS 3920Valena Beety is a law professor, an innocence litigator, and a former federal prosecutor. She has exonerated wrongly convicted clients, founded the West Virginia Innocence Project, and obtained presidential grants of clemency

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