Episodes 86
Avg. Duration 43m
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Apple Rating 5.0 (10)
Since Sep 2018
Latest Episode Mar 2026

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The Short Fuse Podcasts, hosted by Elizabeth Howard, are conversations with artists, writers, musicians and others whose art reveals our communities through their lens and stirs us to seek change. "Artists are here to disturb the peace." James Baldwin The Short Fuse is produced by the Arts Fuse, the online journal of arts commentary and criticism.

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A Library on Death Row

Mar 25, 2026 44m

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Oarabile Ditsele: Reimagining Theater Through Gen Z

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I Hope You Find What You're Looking For

Feb 11, 2026 42m

The music used in the intro of this episode is a classic Eritrean song called "Milenu" by Tewolde Reda.  In I Hope You Find What You're Looking For Zewdi mentions this singer in a flashback to her…

Big House Books - When to Hold the line

Jan 28, 2026 43m

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Bad Bad Girl

Dec 09, 2025 35m

Gish JenGish Jen's work has been included in The Best American Short Stories five times, including in The Best American Short Stories of the Century. A fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and…

Broadway, Bars & Fortune

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Shakespeare in South Africa: Now and Then

Oct 14, 2025 43m

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Mother Africa: Celebrating African Jazz at Lincoln Center

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Open Book: Reading South Africa

Aug 19, 2025 32m

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Bearing Witness: theatre in South Africa

Aug 13, 2025 18m

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Reading the City with Tyler Wetherall

Apr 07, 2025 34m

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Reading and Talking Film: Sonya Chung, Film Forum

Feb 26, 2025 36m

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The Museum of Other People

Sep 04, 2024 34m

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The Swans of Harlem

Jul 09, 2024 37m

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Faulkner's Influence

May 09, 2024 32m

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"Authentic"

Dec 19, 2023 25m

Elizabeth Howard began hosting and producing the Short Fuse during the pandemic years. Those days when we were shuttered in our rooms. Displaced. Disoriented. Since then she has hosted 33…

Arts Commentary and Criticism: The Canary in the Coal Mine

Nov 16, 2023 32m

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The Book Post USA

Oct 19, 2023 31m

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