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Hosted by Harry Siegel · arts · EN-US
Hosts Amy Sohn, Harry Siegel and others sit down each week to commune with artists, writers, critics, cranks, visionaries and loons and how their work, and their lives, relate to the past, present and future of New York. The podcast is a project of The City, a nonprofit newsroom serving the people of New York.
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Contact path
Public web form
Booking probability
31%
Guest openness
Selective
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Signup to Generate a PitchHosts Amy Sohn, Harry Siegel and others sit down each week to commune with artists, writers, critics, cranks, visionaries and loons and how their work, and their lives, relate to the past, present and future of New York. The podcast is a project of The City, a nonprofit newsroom serving the people of New York.
Lit NYC is hosted by Harry Siegel. The show has published 77 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Joel Feingold’s Gotham" (21 August 2026, 49 minutes), "Sam Roberts´ Art of the Obit" (14 August 2026, 33 minutes), and "R Sikoryak´s Declaration/Emancipation Illustrated" (17 July 2026, 43 minutes).
Lit NYC publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 46 minutes across 77 episodes.
Booking probability for Lit NYC is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Lit NYC requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Lit NYC's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for Lit NYC are Artists, Writers & Performers and News, Magazine & Book Publishing. Lit NYC has an arts audience.
Harry Siegel hosts Lit NYC, an arts podcast with 77 episodes published.
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Episode #77
Joel Feingold, the researcher who worked with the late historian Mike Wallace on the final two books of his epic Gotham trilogy, including the newly published Gotham at War , visits Lit NYC to talk with Harry Siegel...
Episode #76
New York Times obituarist Sam Roberts talks with Harry Siegel about his new book, Are They Dead Yet, writing about the dead on deadline, and much more.
Episode #75
For the last decade, artist, animator, illustrator and performer R Sikoryak has been putting America’s founding documents into conversation with iconic images and characters from comics and cartoons. That started with...
Episode #74
When a white man shot four Black teens inside a subway car before disappearing into a tunnel just before Christmas Eve in 1984, young reporter Jon Kalish was assigned to the story by NPR. When Bernhard Goetz turned...
Episode #73
The Metropolitan Diary — the longest-running column in The New York Times — turns 50 this year. For a half century, a page that was introduced as part of a push to relieve the publication’s stuffy reputation has been...
Episode #69
Anthony Janszoon van Salee and his wife Geitje were always feuding with neighbors and authorities, who put them down as the Turk and a whore and who kept putting them on trial before they were finally exiled from...
Episode #68
Clinical psychologist Philip T. Yanos, the author of "Exiles in New York City: Warehousing the Marginalized on Ward's Island," talks about host Amy Sohn about growing up in a place a stone’s throw from Manhattan, Queens...
Episode #67
Sade Lythcott, the CEO of the National Black Theatre, the longest continually run black theater in New York, visits Lit NYC to talk with hosts Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel about the theater her mother, Dr. Barbara Ann...
Episode #66
Writer, journalist, artist and illustrator sits down with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to discuss her sweeping new history of the Jewish Labor Bund, her family connection to it and much more in a conversation that ranges...
Episode #65
An epic art show at the Lexington Avenue Armory made a young Marcel Duchamp, who was back in France, one of America’s first modern celebrities even before he first arrived in New York City for what became decades of...
Episode #64
NYC Department of Records Associate Commissioner Kenneth Cobb and Research Associate Marcia Kirk visited Lit NYC to explain how the Municipal Archives came across the death ledger for the town of Newtown, Queens where...
Episode #63
Geographer, cartographer and urban explorer Andrew Lynch, the chief operating officer of QueensLink, joins Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to discuss the group’s vision to transform the borough for the better by extending the...
Episode #62
Joe Flaherty was a dock worker and high school dropout on the wrong side of 30 when he found an unexpected writer’s life beginning as a columnist for the Village Voice. A couple years later, he was running the 51st...
Episode #61
Eric Goldwyn, one of the authors of a new report from the Marron Institute of Urban Management at New York University with a modest proposal to remap the city with 12 new projects, 64 new subways stations and 41 new...
Episode #60
The self-described “ last Confederate widow,’ whose newly published photographs of gay men in Central Park’s Ramble in 1968 and 1969 are the earliest shots of outdoor cruising in a natural setting, joins Alex Krales and...
Episode #59
An iconic restaurant in Fulton Mall became an Arby's, before it was revived amid the pandemic. St. John Frizell, one of the stewards of Gage and Tollner joins Lit NYC hosts Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to talk about the...
Episode #58
In 1980, a movie narrated by a sociologist once described as Jimmy Stewart’s urban planner cousin, and full of surveillance footage of the city's public spaces, delivered perhaps the richest and wisest look ever made at...
Episode #57
Henry H. Sapoznik sits down with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel for a wide-ranging conversation about assimilation and adaptability, the difference between faux music and folk music, the overlaps between kosher, halal and...
Episode #56
The ineffable and inimitable gadfly and entrepreneur Baruch Herzfeld joins Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to talk about schemes and dreams, the thousand-dollar bet he lost to a Fugee but hasn’t paid, the guys who climbed...
Episode #55
The creators of the acclaimed new documentary about Gotham’s close brush with bankruptcy in 1975 sit down with Amy Sohn and Harry Siegel to discuss the film, the city that was, how its near collapse led to the city of...
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