Not so fast, say Hendrik Hertzberg and Ryan Lizza in this week’s Campaign Trail from the New Yorker. The pundits may be right: she can’t win, but this campaign has yet to play itself out. And her gambit to frame Obama solely as the Black candidate may doom her future standing in the Democratic party. Hosted by Dorothy Wickenden, edited by Owen Agnew. (5.8.08)

Jean Stafford was married for a time to Robert Lowell and hung out with New York intellectuals in the 40s and 50s. But maybe she didn’t exactly fit in, as her first New Yorker short story indicates. It’s called “Children are Bored on Sunday.” From the New Yorker’s abstract: Emma, the girl from the sticks, find herself lost in the world of intellectuals in New York. She has had some education, which prevents her from being considered a real rube, but not enough education to fit into the group. For several months she has withdrawn from the world in a state of despair. On a certain winter Sunday afternoon she is at the Metropolitan Museum. She sees Alfred Eisenburg, one of the intellectuals she had met at a party. At first she avoids him. Then she hopes to meet him so they can get maudlin drunk together in some seedy bar and temporarily forget their loneliness. As she leaves she meets him, and the proceed to a bar.

Hilton Als, one of the New Yorker’s theater critics, talks to host/fiction editor Deborah Treisman about the story, which is read by Eliza Foss. Edited by Rob Weisberg. (5.7.08)

This month host/editors Christian Wiman and Don Share present readings by Jane Hirshfield and Chris Dombrowski, plus they read and comment on a few of their favorites from the May issue. Recorded and edited by Ed Herrmann for CFP. Listen on-line or subscribe . (5/6/08)

The most recent Poetry Off the Shelf features Kay Ryan.  Her kind of poetry–playful, gnomish, compact–was out of fashion for years and years, but her popularity was bolstered when she won the Ruth Lilly Prize for Lifetime Achievement a few years ago from The Poetry Foundation.  I speak with her about animals in poetry and untimely glaciers.  Written and edited by Posey Gruener.  (5/5/08)

Errol Morris’s new documentary Standard Operating Procedure, about the story behind the infamous Abu Ghraib photos, just opened, and for the ACLU CFP hosted and produced an interview with Morris and Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU’s National Security Project. Edited by Brendan Baker. (4.29.08)

In this week’s Campaign Trail from the New Yorker, Dorothy Wickenden talks with Ryan Lizza and Hendrik Hertzberg about the Reverend Wright’s re-appearance in Obama’s campaign, after Wright’s hammy speech at the National Press Club on Monday. According to Hertzberg, Wright and Bill Clinton have a lot in common in their attitudes toward Obama. Edited by Owen Agnew. (4.29.08)

The most recent Poetry Off the Shelf features Matt O’Donnell, creator and editor of From the Fishouse, a web site with lots of audio of emerging poets. Matt introduces of few poems self-recorded by two poets, one of whom, for lack of a quieter place, did it in a chicken coop. Pictured to the right is the fishouse (their spelling), not the chicken coop.  (4.28.08)

The new Parents Magazine Show is about babysitters. Love ‘em or not, parents need them, so how do you manage this delicate relationship?  Host Barrie Gillies speaks with Susan Davis, co-editor of Searching for Mary Poppins: Women Write About the Intense Relationship Between Mothers and Nannies, and senior producer of The State of Things, a daily talk show from North Carolina Public Radio.  Produced by Sally Herships.  (4.26.08)

The most recent Poetry Off the Shelf, from The Poetry Foundation: What’s a man doing in a feminist poem? Three poems by Alicia Ostriker. An interview with Daisy Fried about Ostriker, with readings by the poet.  Hosted and produced by Curtis Fox.  (4.21.08)

Yesterday the New Yorker Fiction Podcast won Best Podcast at the MIN Best of the Web Awards, beating out another CFP production, the Parents Magazine Show, as well as three other contenders. (4.15.08)

In this month’s New Yorker Fiction podcast, Deborah Treisman talks about Lorrie Moore with Louise Erdrich, who then reads Moore’s story “Dance in America.” Erdrich is one of the best readers we’ve had on the program, and this story, heavy with dialogue from a child and woman with a French accent, must not have been easy. Edited by Brendan Baker. (4.11.08)

On this week’s Poetry Off the Shelf we hear Yusef Komunyakaa, a Vietnam vet, read his poem “Facing It,” about his first visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in DC. He also reads “Lime,” about Roman soldiers making concrete from the broken statues of a Greek city. Then, to initiate a debate about who reads poetry better–poets or actors?–Michael Stuhlbarg reads Komunyakaa’s poem “Kindness.” (4.10.08)

CFP normally doesn’t produce The New Yorker Out Loud, but we did this week’s podcast, in which Blake Eskin speaks with NYer dance critic Joan Acocella about ABC’s hit TV show Dancing with the Stars. High culture meets low and has a (pretty) good time. Edited by Owen Agnew. (4.7.08)

For the past three years Poetry Magazine has put out its Translation issue in April: poems translated into English by top American poets, along with short commentaries. For April’s Poetry Magazine podcast, which is a kind of translation of a print magazine into audio, editors Christian Wiman and Don Share discuss seven different poems read in the entirety by actors Eliza Foss and Ken Marks. (4.3.08)

I didn’t know much about Philip Whalen before interviewing Travis Nichols about him for this week’s Poetry Off the Shelf. We break down one of Whalen’s best known poems “A Vision of the Boddhisattvas,” which Whalen wrote long before he became a Buddhist priest.