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Small Press Book Fair

Hosted by Glenn O'Brien , Max Blagg

Originally aired 4/23/04

Bald Ego Online

Small Press Book Fair

Hosted by Glenn O'Brien , Max Blagg

Originally aired 4/23/04

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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Bald Ego Online

All Bases Covered

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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Bald Ego Online

Ron Padgett, Anna Akhmatova, and Donald Barthelme

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

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Bald Ego Online

A Tribute to Cookie Mueller

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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Dead Letters

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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In a Primordial Mood

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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Klassical Korner

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.

RADIO // Bald Ego Online Armory Show 2006: Bald Ego Edition Hosted by Glenn O'Brien, Max Blagg Radio show 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. Originally aired 3/20/06 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Bald Ego Online Never Too Much of the Classics Hosted by Glenn O'Brien, Max Blagg Radio show 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. 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, and... Originally aired 9/13/05 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Bald Ego Online Thunder Perfect Mind Hosted by Glenn O'Brien, Max Blagg Radio show 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. 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 going out in a meth-fuelled blaze of glory holes at 74, stern words from O'Brien favorite... Originally aired 8/22/05 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Bald Ego Online Interviews, Pt. 2 Hosted by Glenn O'Brien, Max Blagg Radio show 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. 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.... Originally aired 6/20/05 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Bald Ego Online Interviews, Pt. 1 Hosted by Glenn O'Brien, Max Blagg Radio show 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. 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 featuring Norman Bluhm, Mike Goldberg, Frank O'Hara and Elaine deKooning (from the magazine It Is),... Originally aired 4/18/05 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Bald Ego Online An Anthology of New York Poets Hosted by Glenn O'Brien, Max Blagg Radio show 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. 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. Concentrating on the less... Originally aired 3/14/05 Listen Read More »
RADIO // Bald Ego Online All Sonnets All the Time Hosted by Glenn O'Brien, Max Blagg Radio show 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. 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. To those sonneteers we missed, we'll do it again... Originally aired 2/21/05 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Bald Ego Online Charles Bernstein Hosted by Glenn O'Brien, Max Blagg Radio show 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. 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 - some... Originally aired 2/7/05 Listen Read More »	RADIO // Bald Ego Online Max Blagg Alone Hosted by Max Blagg Radio show 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. 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 - the "forgotten Beat," Brion Gysin, for one, whose 1959... Originally aired 8/9/04 Listen Read More »