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🗓️ 24 May 2021
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Jeremy McCarter, co-author of the New York Times bestseller Hamilton: The Revolution and the upcoming In The Heights: Finding Home, discusses how his time spent at New York Magazine and The Public led to an unlikely friendship with Lin-Manuel Miranda, how they joined forces to put together a book in 7 weeks, and which of Stephen Sondheim's rules for writing helped inform the process.
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0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Stage and Stages, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamilkast. |
0:05.1 | Bootsing, cut, sent, bussing. |
0:18.2 | Hello, everyone. Welcome back to The Halicast. I'm Jillian. |
0:23.3 | Tonight, I'm so excited. I'm here with Jeremy McCarter, |
0:27.8 | co-author of Hamilton the Revolution, aka the Hamilton co-author of In the Heights, |
0:32.6 | Finding Home, aka the Heights Tome, and Home Tome. Is that accurate? Is that what we're going |
0:36.5 | with with those? The fan favorite. Those are both fine. The fan favorite is Bodega Bible. |
0:41.9 | Oh, God. Perfect. Which is pretty dreamy. That's super dreamy. Thank you so much for being here. |
0:48.4 | I'm thrilled to talk to you. I have so much to say and so much to ask. My pleasure. I have |
0:53.2 | questions for you. You know so much about Hamilton. You could tell me lots of things I don't know |
0:56.9 | about Hamilton. I don't think that's true. We're going to find out. We'll see. Yeah, we'll find out. |
1:01.7 | Before we get started, Jeremy, can you tell me your pronouns, please? Sure, he, him. |
1:04.8 | Thank you. I have like two pages worth of things to tell the people about what you do and who you are. |
1:09.1 | I can't read all of it, Jeremy. Don't read all of it. I'm so intimidated by you. You like, |
1:14.4 | you know, the artistic staff at the public theater for five years, you created and ran the public |
1:18.8 | forum series, which was amazing. The Make Believe Foundation, which is a nonprofit audio production |
1:22.8 | company, which I love audio production. I'm going to put it all in the show notes, but I feel |
1:31.2 | really intimidated by you. Don't do that. It's just that. No, because I just have a very short |
1:36.7 | attention span. It's career-wise, it turns out. Every three or four years, I go looking for another |
1:41.0 | cliff that I can throw myself off. Then it leads to good war stories and also a bio like that one, |
1:48.6 | which doesn't make a lot of sense when you read it straight through. No, but sometimes the |
1:52.6 | cliff is like serving on the jury for the Pulitzer Prize for drama. Sometimes the cliff is writing |
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