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2021: Questions Were Asked. Movies You May Have Seen. Books You Should Have Read. Music You Need.
This is the first edition of Life Elsewhere of 2022. We begin by revisiting part of a conversation with author and political commentator, Jared Yates Sexton, recorded a few days after the historical event of...
On January 6th, 2021, thousands descended on the U.S. Capitol to aid President Donald Trump in combating a shadowy cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles. Two women were among those who died that day. They, like millions...
Imagine for a moment, the following scenario: You are a guest at an elegant diner party. You’re seated with the other guests at an ornately set table. The room is warm, candlelight flickers across crystal...
Chris Connelly. An Ongoing Conversation Part 2
Arriving in Chicago, Chris Connelly was greeted at the airport by Dannie Fletcher and Al Jourgensen who was preoccupied at the time with getting his new Walkman to work. When every attempt failed, the founder...
Behind The Glitz, The Glamour, & The Factory
Laurence Leamer – Capote’s Women – A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for An Era “There are certain women,” Truman Capote wrote, “who, though perhaps not born rich, are born to...
The Mysterious Mr. Thiel. Questions About The News. New Piano Music.
What do you know about the billionaire venture capitalist and entrepreneur, Peter Thiel? He has been a behind-the-scenes operator, influencing countless aspects of our contemporary way of life, from the technologies we use every day...
Survival of the City. My Sweet Girl.
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation – Edward Glaeser & David Cutler Cities can make us sick. They always have – diseases spread more easily when more people are...
Streetlight Harmonies – The Origins Of Doo-Wop
“The main thing was all the girls used to come to the best group. And we were the best group … they used to come and crowd and load up our corner.” The Drifters’ Charlie...
Dr. Kampmark Diagnoses The News
Dateline: 19.00 hours ET, August 16, 2021 Dr. Binoy Kampmark is always ahead. 14 hours ahead in Melbourne. Yet, even if the learned professor were in the same dateline, you can be assured his perspective...
A Comic Writer’s Funny Obsession
Mark Haskell Smith Rude Talk In Athens: Ancient Rivals, the Birth of Comedy, and a Writer’s Journey through Greece In ancient Athens, thousands would attend theatre festivals that turned writing into a fierce battle for...
Not Just Another Book About #$%@&. An Untold American Story. Plus New Music
When the PR people from Penguin invited us to talk about a new book, I Alone Can Fix It – Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year our first reaction was, Oh no! Not another book...
Tales Retold From A Remarkable Culture
Poet, Richard Price has respectfully, (lovingly perhaps) taken three Inuit stories and retold them with a sensitive, yet earnest approach in his new book, The Owner Of The Sea
