ESOPUS is an annual arts publication that features multidisciplinary content presented in a striking visual format with minimal editorial framing and no advertising. Each issue includes contemporary artists' projects, materials from the Museum of Modern Art archives reproduced in facsimile, fiction, poetry, works on film, visual essays, and a themed audio CD featuring brand-new songs from a range of musical acts.
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Meet Colleen and Talia. A certified 'curd nerd' Colleen loves her cheese and hosting cheese tasting experiences with her company Behind The Rind. Even from a young age, Talia knew there had to be something better than a red delicious out there. Since founding Haykin Family Cider with her husband in 2017, they have been focusing on the stories behind the apples and making single varietal ciders. Pour yourself a glass of cider, prep a cheese plate, and enjoy Colleen and Talia’s adventures in t ...
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Join Colleen and Talia while they taste local Colorado MouCo Camembert alongside Haykin's Golden Russet We talk about what the difference is between Camembert and Brie (hint: not much), how a cider can taste like vacation, and crazy apple trees growing from litter. NOTE: We are so sorry for the delay in releasing new episodes... both Talia and Coll…
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Columbia Crabapple and Cypress Grove Midnight Moon
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They took a small break but Colleen and Talia are back! We've got a goat gouda by Cypress Grove - Midnight Moon and Haykin's Columbia Crabapple. A great pairing! Like the podcast? Have a question or something you want us to try? Email us! Glasses we used - Riedel Extreme Restaurant Rose/Champagne glass Follow Apples to Fromage on Instagram! And com…
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Join Colleen and Talia while they taste a brie style blue cheese (YES THAT EXISTS!!) - Cambozola Black Label and Haykin Family Cider's FAMOUS red cider - Niedzwetzkyana. They talk about how good the pairing is, food tourism, and Talia's grammatical apology to her dad. Like the podcast? Have a question or something you want us to try? Email us! Glas…
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Colleen and Talia are back! Tasting three types of cheddar - basic Tilamok cheddar, Milton Creamery Prairie Breeze, and Jasper Hill Cabot Clothbound cheddar alongside three Jonathan ciders from Haykin - 2018 Jonathan, 2019 Jonathan, and our newest Methode Ancestrale Jonathan. Like the podcast? Have a question or something you want us to try? Email …
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Join Colleen and Talia while they taste three washed rind cheeses - Tallegio, Meadow Creek Grayson, and Alp Blossom alongside Haykin's 2018 Esopus Spitzenberg and 2019 Esopus Spitzenberg. Like the podcast? Have a question or something you want us to try? Email us! Glasses we used - Riedel Extreme Restaurant Rose/Champagne glass Follow Apples to Fro…
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For this atmospheric instrumental track created for the ESOPUS 25 "Jokes" CD (included in ESOPUS 25, the nonprofit arts publication now in bookstores) The Antlers frontman Peter Silberman took his inspiration from an old classic: A horse walks into a bar, and the bartender asks, "Why the long face?" Silberman talks about his choice in the issue's l…
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The second sneak preview from the ESOPUS 25 "JOKES" CD -- included in ESOPUS 25, which is just hitting bookstores -- is a fantastic art-pop track by Alicia Walter, who chose this humorous poem by philosopher Alan Watts as its inspiration:There once was a man who said, “Though it seems that I know that I know, What I’d like to see,Is the I that know…
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"Why Did the Man Talk to a Horse Off in the Bar?" by Lonnie Holley [PREVIEW]
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For its latest audio compilation, ESOPUS invited 11 musical acts -- including Peter Silberman, Joseph Keckler, and Katie Von Scheicher -- to create new songs inspired by a joke of their choice. The CD will appear in ESOPUS 25, which is just now hitting bookstores. The iconic comical query “Why did chicken cross the road?” opens “Why Did the Man Tal…
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Lisa Kudrow Discusses "The Comeback" with Tod Lippy (Museum of the Moving Image, 2/23/11)
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ESOPUS inaugurated a collaborative series with the newly renovated Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, with a screening and in-person appearance by actress Lisa Kudrow and her producing partner Dan Bucatinsky. In 2005, Kudrow and Michael Patrick King co-created "The Comeback," a penetrating and often brutal satire of reality TV, sitcoms,…
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Karl Ove Knausgaard in Conversation with Tod Lippy (BookCourt, 5/21/16)
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In front of a packed house at Brooklyn’s BookCourt, the celebrated Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard (My Struggle) spoke with ESOPUS editor Tod Lippy about “On the Value of LIterature,” his 5,000-word essay that appears in ESOPUS 23. Knausgaard also took questions from the audience about his writing process, and the evening ended with a book-sig…
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Hampton Fancher Reads William Carlos Williams (The Kitchen, 5/26/16)
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On May 26, 2015, ESOPUS presented an evening of programming at NYC's The Kitchen related to ESOPUS 22: MEDICINE, the nonprofit's 2015 issue devoted to the intersections between medicine and the arts. Among the event's participants was screenwriter Hampton Fancher ("Blade Runner") who read a 1942 letter, which appears in the issue, from poet/doctor …
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The Wrens, "The House that Guilt Built [Live]" (The Kitchen, 10/24/06)
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On October 24, 2006, The Wrens' Charles Bissell and Kevin Whelan participated in "An Evening with ESOPUS" at NYC performance space The Kitchen. Among the tracks they performed was this version of "The House that Guilt Built" (from their acclaimed LP "The Meadowlands") for which they called upon three audience members to participate.…
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Stephen Adly Guirgis reads “Dear Sissy” (MoMA/PS1, 5/11/06)
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Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis wrote a series of three monologues for ESOPUS which were published in our second, third, and fifth issues. Guirgis read the third monologue for an ESOPUS event at MoMA/PS1 on May 11, 2006.Learn more at https://bit.ly/2vs9kplBy ESOPUS
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ESOPUS 24: CREATIVITY AND BOUNDARIES (PODCAST)
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Much of the content in the 24th issue of the nonprofit arts annual ESOPUS concerns itself with boundaries—between countries, cultures, languages, genders, and more—and in many cases, with using creativity as a way to breach them. This podcast features editor Tod Lippy's interviews with four contributors to the issue—translator Ann Goldstein, photog…
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ESOPUS 23 "CLOSE CALLS" CD PREVIEW (PODCAST)
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Each issue of ESOPUS features an audio CD with brand-new music inspired by a particular theme. For the forthcoming ESOPUS 23 (on newsstands in May), the CD explores the subject of "Close Calls." For it, we invited 13 musical acts to pick a close-call moment from their lives — ranging from near-death experiences to romantic misfires — that they've n…
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ESOPUS FALL 2015 EDITION PREVIEW (PODCAST)
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Each fall, ESOPUS creates a limited-edition artwork for its Premium subscribers. This fall's edition, "Three Types of Reading Ambiguity," is a multidisciplinary collaboration between musician Charles Bissell and contemporary artist Beth Campbell. A layered reflection on the differing meanings of “original” and “copy” in the visual arts and music — …
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This podcast offers a preview of the forthcoming issue of ESOPUS, the nonprofit arts publication based in New York City. It includes three interviews with contributors to ESOPUS 22: MEDICINE: Thomas Juncher Jensen, an interior designer who has designed "the perfect waiting room" based on our subscribers' suggestions; acclaimed contemporary artist M…
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