BETA is the weekend arts and pop culture broad(pod)cast from @WPR, hosted by @DouglasMGordon. Proud contributor to @PRX's #PRXRemix
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"I think writing essays, especially when they are earnest, there's a vulnerability to it and I think that exposes you a little bit more. Whereas like with a joke, you can hide behind it." @JenaFriedman #NotFunny drops today. @simonschusteer Audio interview and article drop Fri.
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Thank you @jonstewart @mrbobodenkirk @pattonoswalt @reggiewatts @JimGaffigan and @FREDARMISEN5 for letting me interview you for my book!
“Do you think men can be sexy AND funny?”@JenaFriedman asks her favorite male comedians—Jon Stewart, Reggie Watts, and Bob Odenkirk among them—some of the inane questions she gets as a “woman in comedy.” lithub.com/jena-friedman-giv…
"It (@SSTRecords ) became the coolest, most sought-after, most respected indie label in America. But as time went on, its practices became increasingly corporate." @JimVermin #CorporateRockSucks @hatchette #relistenability
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"I suppose if there's any unifying theme through the stories, often it's the relationships between family members and friends and ex-boyfriends." #LingMa
#BlissMontage #relistenability @fsgbooks
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"I rolled the dice so that all the rolls that you see in the story are rolls that I actually made, and then I engineered the decisions and so on to fit the arc of the story I wanted to do." @pennjillette #Random @AkashicBooks #relistenability
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With rumors of a second Fyre Festival circulating, refresh your memory on the foibles of Fyre Festival 1
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.@TigNotaro Congratulations on your excellent work directing @AtsukoComedy's @HBOMax special, #TheIntruder. It's cool how Atsuko went from imitating your delivery in her early standup work to having you direct this fantastic special. #FullCircle
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"You can do a lot without having papers. So I like to normalize it by saying undocumented folks are just Americans without papers. They're able to go to public school. They're your friends. They're your neighbors." @AtsukoComedy #TheIntruder @hbomax
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Thanks to @ndewey for making our conversation with @SusannaHoffs happen! Such an honor to talk to Susanna about her excellent debut novel #ThisBirdHasFlown and her new album, #TheDeepEnd.
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Congratulations to @AtsukoComedy for winning the #GracieAward (@AllWomeninMedia) for her very funny very smart @hbomax special, #TheIntruder.
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.@SusannaHoffs: "I say don't wait around for permission. Just dive in ... because if you wait for permission, you may never get it." #ThisBirdHasFlown @littlebrown #TheDeepEnd
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"For me, living in a rural town in the '90s, there was a kind of isolation that I think made you get weird if you wanted something that you couldn't have." #KevinWilson #NowIsNottheTimetoPanic @eccobooks
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"And he (#PeterAsher) just shared that song with me and I just felt like I was floored by that song. I thought it was one of the most beautiful songs I'd ever heard." @SusannaHoffs on @HolHumberstone's #DeepEnd.
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"Everything led me to this moment of feeling threatened in my own home that I was afraid even to call my home for the longest time. Because in the special, I joke that I am just renting, so it's not my home." @AtsukoComedy @hbomax #TheIntruder
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"I thought, 'Oh, it's time, in this decade that we're in... and this time period that we're all living in, to maybe do a little gender flip here. And empower the ladies.'" @SusannaHoffs on covering @RollingStones'
#UnderMyThumb on new album, #TheDeepEnd.
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"It was quite a dramatic shift, but unexpectedly joyful, freeing, exhilarating experience to take on this lifelong dream of writing fiction and writing a novel....It was unexpectedly pleasurable." @SusannaHoffs #ThisBirdHasFlown @littlebrown
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Need weekend plans? @isthmus & #WiBookFest have you covered!
Catch @Jbrekkie TOMORROW (04/07) at 7pm! We’ll be at the @barrymorelive & doors open at 6pm 🎤📚 – at Wisconsin, USA
A @WIBookFestival talk by @Jbrekkie; @maesimpsonmusic at @HighNoonMadison; plus more Isthmus Picks for April 6-9.
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'The Monkees' Producer Says 1 Song Was 'Critical' to the Film 'Head' cheatsheet.com/entertainment…
