Photo by Brian Tomlinson, 2010.
Photo by Brian Tomlinson, 2010.
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Armory Show 2006: Bald Ego Edition
Hosted by Glenn O'Brien , Max Blagg
Originally aired on Monday, March 20th, 2006
Max Blagg and Glenn O'Brien sit in the Art International Radio skybox high above the acres of art and cool, casting their canny gaze across the affairs below.
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Hosted by Glenn O'Brien , Max Blagg
Originally aired Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

For Bald Ego co-editors Max Blagg and Glenn O'Brien, too much of the classics is not nearly enough for the radical present. Listen as they rend sweet and bitter soundings from Petronius, Henny Youngman, Mallarme and Beatnik Bob Kaufman.


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Hosted by Glenn O'Brien , Max Blagg
Originally aired Monday, August 22nd, 2005

Once again, in the steamheat of August: Blagg & O'Brien, two outspoken pagans perpetuating the Word on broadband. There was praise for poet Thom Gunn, stern words from O'Brien favorite Wyndham Lewis and much more.


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Hosted by Glenn O'Brien , Max Blagg
Originally aired Monday, June 20th, 2005

Following the success of their reconstituted interviews on their last show, Blagg and O'Brien repeated the format, inviting Andy Warhol to enlighten a rather earnest film student, and Alex Katz and Richard Prince to trade aphorisms and witticisms.


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Hosted by Glenn O'Brien , Max Blagg
Originally aired Monday, April 18th, 2005

Hosts Max Blagg and Glenn O'Brien impersonated a studio full of ethereal guests. They began by reconvening a 1959 era panel on modern art and later shared interviews with Pablo Neruda and Jack Kerouac.


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Hosted by Glenn O'Brien , Max Blagg
Originally aired Monday, March 14th, 2005

Co-hosts Blagg & O'Brien turned their focus on a single tome for this broadcast: the classic compilation, An Anthology of New York Poets, published by Vintage in 1970, and containing the cream of the New York School.


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Hosted by Glenn O'Brien , Max Blagg
Originally aired Monday, February 21st, 2005

Our 13th outing featured sonnets from a diverse array of poets, spotlighting especially William Shakespeare and Ted Berrigan, and including Petrarch, the Earl of Surrey, Paul Violi and John Godfrey.


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Hosted by Glenn O'Brien , Max Blagg
Originally aired Monday, February 7th, 2005

In their most unusual move yet, hosts Glenn O'Brien and Max Blagg gave center stage to Charles Bernstein- only their second studio guest in twelve episodes -and listened politely (even more unusual!) when he played several rare recordings.


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Hosted by Max Blagg
Originally aired Monday, August 9th, 2004

Bald Ego magazine co-editor Max Blagg goes it alone, in the temporary absence of his "BEO" partner Glenn O'Brien. Blagg forges ahead to share some early influences on his own work, a few Ted Berrigan poems and more.


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Hosted by Glenn O'Brien , Max Blagg
Originally aired Monday, July 5th, 2004

Poet-kibitzers Max Blagg and Glenn O'Brien turn their fine journal of art and writing into the Car Talk of literature - amusing, romantic and morbidly funny, all at once.


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Hosted by Glenn O'Brien , Max Blagg
Originally aired Monday, May 10th, 2004

Poets Max Blagg and Glenn O'Brien, co-founders of the art/literary journal Bald Ego share intimations of mortality while encouraging their guest, sexy-girl painter Duncan Hannah to revert to his closet persona as a short story writer.


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Hosted by Glenn O'Brien , Max Blagg
Originally aired Friday, April 23rd, 2004

Poets and writers Max Blagg and Glenn O'Brien host a radio version of the art/literary journal, Bald Ego. On this show, these two engaging raconteurs lament a recent Small Press Book Fair and read poems both dirty and sweet.


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Hosted by Glenn O'Brien , Max Blagg

Blagg and O'Brien ought to bottle their version of Christmas, and this dolefully cheerful selection of poetry - from Dylan Thomas and the Druids to Robert Graves to Blagg himself.


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Hosted by Glenn O'Brien , Max Blagg

The Click and Clack of art-radio poesy, Max Blagg and Glenn O'Brien, take to their Klassical Korner for a thrilling play-by-play of Homer's current sales rank, spiking their repartee with a reading from Robert Graves's Iliad, and more.


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Hosted by Glenn O'Brien , Max Blagg

Max Blagg and Glenn O'Brien take this opportunity to introduce The Cookie Mueller Corner to their program, a recurring segment in which they will read some of the late writer's wonderful stories (Mueller died from AIDS in November, 1989.)


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Hosted by Glenn O'Brien , Max Blagg

Is poetry the proper response to world events? This may be the only place you'll ever find an answer! If you're asking Glenn O'Brien and Max Blagg, the answer must be a 1965 love poem to John Ashbery, from the English poet Lee Harwood.


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Hosted by Glenn O'Brien , Max Blagg
Somehow Tilda Swinton, Richard Aldington, Alex Katz and Anna Ahkmatova all seem perfect together when such subjects are taken up by such gentlemen as Max Blagg and Glenn O'Brien, the Click and Clack of modern poesy. Read More
Hosted by Glenn O'Brien , Max Blagg

Those click and clacking beat-manque poets Max Blagg and Glenn O'Brien call up the still-lively spirits of favored bardic ghosts with correspondence from Joe Orton and others, and read only the belles of several literary-heroic lettres.


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