Alexander Sorondo Podcasts

Wherein the narrator, smitten with a very busy month full of good things, caps it off by interviewing one of his all-time favorite (and most personally influential) novelists, Don Winslow, about his new novel, CITY ON FIRE (which is absolutely incredible, and on whose recommendation I will stake my reputation).Buy CITY ON FIRE here: https://www.ama…

Whereing the narrator, thinking this'll just be a hodgepodge episode, talks for a while about his post-book creative position, bingeing coverage of Putin's war in Ukraine, and riffs openly about his excitement for the new Cormac McCarthy releases---PERO THEN: while editing the episode he gets an upsetting email, hops back on the mic, and wallows (p…

Wherein the narrator shares too much or too little fruit with a stranger, and re-reads a classic.PATREON: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieprojectEMAIL: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail[dot]comBy Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator sits down to study Ukraine--but then takes a step back, seeing that he's falling into the same trap he fell into with COVID coverage back in 2020. PATREON: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieprojectEMAIL: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail[dot]comBy Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator talks about practices that might or might not be unique to the Goodwill in Little Havana, and his conviction that almost every book they sell comes from a dead person's library.PATREON: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieprojectEMAIL: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail[dot]com.By Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator breaks a tooth and thinks, mistakenly, that three beers is enough alcohol to keep him from passing out at Dr. Pimple Popper.By Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator apparently has a lot on his mind, cuz he starts off the recording by trying to do a quick correction of something he recorded the day before, but ends up riffing, for like fifteen minutes, about basically not knowing what to do now that he's not working on a book.By Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator, drinking by himself while reading about the mysterious ~President's Daily Briefing~, took the ill-advised initiative of emailing the CIA and asking to borrow one.**Bonus Reading**"What is the PDB?": https://www.intelligence.gov/publics-daily-brief/presidents-daily-briefBy Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator takes a few minutes to bask in the way-overdue completion of the book he started writing, and obsessing over, almost exactly one year ago, CUBAFRUIT.By Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator riffs about the ideas of "game" philosopher C. Thi Nguyen, and makes a drunken decision about the Jack Reacher book he's pressured himself into reading.NGUYEN ON EZRA KLEIN SHOW: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/25/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-c-thi-nguyen.htmlPATREON: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieprojectEMAIL: thousandmovieprojec…

Wherein the narrator riffs in no particular direction, starting off with Putin's invasion of Ukraine, traversing it quickly, and then moseying in what sounds, looking back, like just a desperate ramble, trying not to be panicked. Subjects covered: the biggest fan of the Ninja Turtles, the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre, how hatred is made a kind of co…

Wherein the narrator considers the societal (sorta) and personal ramifications of having things so readily and abundantly available: chicken and pornography being the two big ones.PATREON: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieprojectEMAIL: thousandmovieproject@gmail.comBy Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator talks about the frustrating/heartbreakingly ridiculous lies that men tell him while he's tending bar. EMAIL: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail.comPATREON: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieprojectBy Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator gets really frustrated with takeout orders--but also emboldened by the chutzpah of a dude who places a huge order, says he wants it for free, and RECIEVES it; whereupon the narrator attempts this magic himself.By Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator talks about his obsession with James Joyce's impossibly complex novel Finnegans Wake, which is a 700-page tome written almost entirely in puns, and about his obsession with other writers who are obsessive: Mark Z. Danielewski, Michael Chabon, and Robert Caro.By Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator chimes in to say his book is almost done, and that the proper new slate of episodes will begin next week, but ends up riffing and getting himself way more worked up than he intended.PATREON: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieprojectEMAIL: thousandmovieproject@gmail.comBy Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator finally revisits and posts a conversation with historian, New Yorker staff writer, and Harvard professor Louis Menand about his latest book THE FREE WORLD: ART AND THOUGHT IN THE COLD WAR. The narrator explains why this is the most mind-widening and -altering book he read in 2021...and then goes on to explain why it took six mo…

Wherein the narrator wishes you well, remembers his late grandfather, and talks about ROCKY as a metaphor on how to die well. EMAIL: thousandmovieproject@gmail.comPATREON: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieprojectBy Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator is lied to, about something totally innocuous, and decides to make it into a huge thing. EMAIL: thousandmovieproject@gmail.comPATREON: www.thousandmovieproject.com/thousandmovieprojectBy Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator talks about two of his favorite storytellers, James Ellroy and Ridley Scott, and how they inspire him to get better at embarrassing himself.By Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator ponders a thing about one of his colleagues, looking at the guy's behavior through the lens of something an artist said on the GaryVee podcast, with other detours along the theme of insecurity--including an old porno, a radio broadcast, Timothy Chalamet's frustrating beauty, and that old viral video of the lizard doing LSD in a…

Wherein the narrator dreads going to the laundromat and just complains about it for ten minutes.EMAIL: thousandmovieproject[at]gmail[dot]com.By Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator offers, to listeners interested, a letter in the mail and then talks about an ethically questionable thing that he did, and gets around to topics like Flannery O'Connor, the phallic properties of a cashew, the Kennedy assassination, an answer to the question of What's Your Favorite Snack and a breakdown of one of his larger per…

Wherein the narrator offers listeners a package in the mail, if they just send their mailing address to thousandmovieproject[at]gmail[dot]com, and also talks about a six-hour intelligence test he once took, a man in a thong who dances near his apartment, and the roach phobia that complicates his life. PATREON: www.patreon.com/thousandmovieprojectIG…

Today's episode is a twenty-minute rambling intro to a fifteen-minute sample of the Patreon Exclusive episodes of the podcast. The intro covers a few things that've happened lately at the bar where I work, it's about six times longer than it was supposed to be, and then the rest of it is about vegetarianism and other ramblesome things -- basically …

Wherein the narrator inadvertently creates a problem by requesting more bread.Support the show and get access to regular bonus episodes at www.patreon.com/thousandmovieprojectEmail me to chat about whatever!thousandmovieprojectpodcast@gmail.comBy Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator, on receiving a gift card, is suddenly paralyzed by the burden of how to spend it.Support the show!PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/thousandmovieprojectBy Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator tells a buncha rumors while trying to make a point about how hard it is to cancel his subscription to The Miami Herald.By Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator talks for a couple minutes about DON'T BREATHE 2, and then about Derrida's crackpot idea regarding "center" spaces, and then about why he's never quite understood vacation.By Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator talks for a while about things that scare him, like interviewing an estimable writer, and then goes on to interview an estimable writer, Margaret MacMillan, about her new book, WAR: HOW CONFLICT SHAPED US.By Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator talks about the latest installment in the Halloween franchise, "Halloween Kills," and also about a boss who fell from grace, lecherous dudes in film, and those moments when your subject is larger than your occasion.By Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator, after recounting the finer points of his favorite early Superman comic, talks with author Douglas Wolk about his new book, ALL OF THE MARVELS. Wolk read all 27,000 issues of Marvel's expanded comic book universe and writes, in his story, about the beauty of confusion, the maturation of the brand, and whether Stan Lee did in fa…

Wherein the narrator reacts to the SCREAM 5 trailer, and complains that it shouldn't called "SCREAM" (which is the actual title), and then tells a story about a very angry math teacher he had in high school, and how the teachers of "regular" classes were generally pretty shattered, emotionally; by the end of it he's remembering what it was like to …

Wherein the narrator whispers with undue stress about a long weekend he spent in a mansion.By Alexander Sorondo

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Wherein the narrator riffs about a president's first 100 days, phlegm and other fluids, and eventually gets pretty sentimental about the idea of having made a hundred of these things, and feeling a really sincere kinship with (and appreciation for) everyone who's taken the time to listen.By Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator, having taken a full month to work on his book, eases himself back into the podcasting routine by doing a simple episode, with very few sound effects, in which he talks about Stephen King's two major thematic obsessions, and how they recur through his body of work, and then about some of his own (that is, the narrator's) more s…

Wherein the narrator takes his insecurities to the doorstep of L.R. Dorn (the author duo Suzanne Dunn & Matt Dorff) to discuss their novel, ANATOMY OF DESIRE, the allure of true crime, that thing Liz Taylor did to Montgomery Clift's mouth one night on the side of the road, and making peace with one's own morbid interests.ANATOMY OF DESIRE is their …

Wherein the narrator recounts his Day of Study, which involved Afghanistan, Paulie Shore, white collar criminal support groups and Biden's Greatest Hits.By Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator, short on rent money, gets out from behind the bar and picks up several shifts as a waiter throughout the week and ends up, on one particular night, seeing and hearing some heavy shit, and it messes with him, so he talks about it. "That's not on the menu"; supermom; disabilities.…

Wherein the narrator describes a few articles from The New Yorker and The New York Times that he read on Sunday.By Alexander Sorondo

Wherien the narrator talks for a bit about a recent loss in his family, an ethically questionable thing he did as a bartender, one of his worst customers in recent memory--and finally speaks, at length, with the Pulitzer-nominated historian W.H. Brands about the craft of writing biography and history.…

Wherein the narrator makes an episode off the cuff, talking about the news and how's he's simply too petty to ever be a manager, gives an update on the book he's writing, and also addresses why there was no episode last week.By Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator talks for fifteen minutes about his own conflicted feelings toward slasher movies before welcoming New York Times-bestselling novelist Grady Hendrix into the fold for a discussion of his new novel, FINAL GIRL SUPPORT GROUP, but mostly about the challenges of writing every day, policing one's own artistic output, and why Stephen…

Wherein the narrator muses on impending catastrophe, "living life to the fullest," accidentally eating an anchovie and the travails(or lack thereof)in acquatic lifestyles.By Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator talks about being too anxious to poop in small public bathrooms, rambles into the territory of some vague body dysmorphia having some loose relation to September 11th, speculates on Bill Clinton's pre-vegan bathroom habits and eventually circles back to a point.By Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator speaks with the author of one of his favorite books from the past year, HIS VERY BEST, a comprehensive and propulsive biography of Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States.Also, in the monologue at the top of the show: Jimmy Carter, "Third Accidental President"; that maybe Carter's downfall is foretold in the triumph o…

A brief episode wherein the narrator, while stone off the very mildest weed, riffs about how he needs to get better at relaxing, it's better being an adult than a teenager, and his ongoing project (in preparation for interviewing the filmmaker Charles Band) of watching Full Moon's catalogue of movies.…

Wherein the narrator talks about his gambler friend, the drama surrounding a Michael Jordan rookie card, how he tried and failed to major in psychology thinking he could become a sex therapist and, finally, how Jimmy Carter makes it seem like being an ex-president is really frustrating.By Alexander Sorondo

Wherein the narrator, who is personally incapable of not talking, sings the virtue of his affliction, and encourages you to skim a newspaper's front page every morning for a week.By Alexander Sorondo