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Hosted by Abby Walthausen · arts · EN-US · 24 episodes
"A Lovely Wallpaper" offers up guided memorizations, featuring a new poem each episode. Proposing memory work as a challenge to the ephemeral language of our moment, host Abby delivers an exploration of each new poem in two parts. In the first act, she chats with a guest about poetry and memory. In the second act, she presents the episode's poem, as read by her guest, in a special format designed to work as a roadmap to learning it by heart.
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Signup to Generate a Pitch"A Lovely Wallpaper" offers up guided memorizations, featuring a new poem each episode. Proposing memory work as a challenge to the ephemeral language of our moment, host Abby delivers an exploration of each new poem in two parts. In the first act, she chats with a guest about poetry and memory.
A Lovely Wallpaper is hosted by Abby Walthausen. The show has published 24 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "A visit to the Thomas Mann House and a séance from The Magic Mountain with Benno Herz" (13 October 2026, 56 minutes), "James Fenton's "In Paris with You" with Darryl Pinckney" (30 July 2026, 78 minutes), and "Sylvia Plath's "Crossing the Water" with Darryl Pinckney" (16 June 2026, 67 minutes).
A Lovely Wallpaper publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 51 minutes across 24 episodes.
Booking probability for A Lovely Wallpaper is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. A Lovely Wallpaper requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. A Lovely Wallpaper's contact route on record: verified email.
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Abby Walthausen hosts A Lovely Wallpaper, an arts show with 24 episodes published.
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A Lovely Wallpaper
In this episode, Abby visits the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles. She speaks with the house's programming director, Benno Herz about the Mann family's years of exile from Nazi Germany and the community they found in...
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In this episode, Abby has a second conversation with Darryl Pinckney and he presents “In Paris with You” by James Fenton, a poem which Darryl himself inspired. Recitation begins at 66:33. In Paris with You James Fenton...
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In the first half of this special double episode, Abby interviews Darryl Pinckney, novelist and critic, and discusses his book Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-seventh Street, Manhattan, which...
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In this episode, Abby visits the 2026 Southern California Renaissance Pleasure Faire. She speaks with a jeweler's apprentice / master navigator, a pen maker from the guild of St. Cuthbert, a beekeeper, a singing cook...
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In this episode, Abby interviews Nora Lange, novelist and short story writer, about her books Us Fools and Day Care. Together, they present “Collaboration with Fly” by Lydia Davis.<br /> Recitation begins at 60:32.<br...
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In this episode, Abby interviews Andrew Seguin, poet and translator, about his books The Room in Which I Work, a poetic exploration of the early photographer Nicéphore Niépce, and Earthly, his new selected translations...
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Guest Robert Pogue Harrison, professor of Italian and French literature at Stanford, discusses his long running radio program "Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)." He presents “A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's...
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In this episode, Abby interviews poet Selma Asotić about her English language debut Say Fire, a beautiful book about families, language, and trauma in post-war Sarajevo. Together, they present "Let Us Praise the...
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This special October episode features a ghost story from William Maxwell's novel The Château. It's set in a harsh, old-fashioned classroom where kids recite their lessons, and its haunting force is a shapeshifting...
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In this episode, Abby interviews art historian Marie Warsh about her book Central Park's Adventure-Style Playgrounds, about growing up surrounded by poetry and art on the Lower East side, and about her work to revive...
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In this episode, Abby interviews radical mycologist James Oliver about mushrooms and his work healing post-fire sites with mycelium at The Center for Applied Ecological Remediation (CAER). Together, they present the...
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In this episode, Abby interviews harpist and composer Mary Lattimore about her most recent album Goodbye, Hotel Arkada, her musical collaborations, and her instrument in all its epic visceral and metaphorical power...
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In this episode, Abby interviews writer Lucy Sante about recent books *Nineteen Reservoirs* and *I Heard Her Call My Name*. Together, they present an excerpt of the poem "Zone" by Guillaume Apollinaire.<br />Recitation...
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In this episode, Abby interviews Lee Ann Brown, poet and founding editrix of Tender Buttons, about running a small press for 36 years, having Bernadette Mayer as a mentor, setting poems to music, and her own poetry book...
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In this episode, Abby interviews Talon Knight aka Robert Shallow, about falconry, owls, and the SoCal Renaissance Faire. Terri Casey, director of the Queen's Court, joins in to read “An Eagle for an Emperor” by Dame...
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In this episode, Abby interviews Andrew Tonkovich, writer, editor of the journals The Santa Monica Review and Citric Acid, and host of the KPFK radio program "Bibliocracy," about a new exhibition he mounted on the art...
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In this episode, Abby Walthausen interviews Kate Lebo, author of *Pie School* and *Pie and Whiskey*, about the essays and recipes in *The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly*. For memory...
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Guest Marie Darrieussecq, author of more than 20 novels, discusses two of her non-fiction books *Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia* and *Being Here is Everything: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker*. She reads an excerpt...
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In this episode, Abby Walthausen interviews Ishion Hutchinson, author of the poetry collections *School of Instructions: a Poem*, *House of Lords and Commons*, and *Far District*. Born in Port Antonio, Jamaica, he is...
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In this episode, Abby Walthausen interviews Peter Orner, fiction writer and professor of English and Creative writing at Dartmouth College, for a special Bloomsday episode. For memory, they offer up James Joyce's "On...
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