Author Reif Larsen, homework from The Best Show and Nazila Fathi

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4.6 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2015

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Homework this week comes from Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster of The Best Show. We talk with author Reif Larsen about ambiguity, unfinished lists, and the divine futility of making art. And Iranian journalist Nazila Fathi helps us get to know a Great Lady Nerd of History.

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0:00.0	I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still
0:06.1	watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,
0:12.7	soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,
0:18.0	Stories Without End from WB EZ Chicago.
0:25.7	Join me as I share how the genre began, their social impact, and why these stories endure.
0:28.3	Listen wherever you get your podcast.
0:33.6	I'm Greta Johnson.
0:34.5	I'm Tricia Bobita.
0:37.7	And from WBeeZ in Chicago, this is Nerdette.
0:41.3	Coming up, an author tries to describe his own novel, and it gets weird.
0:44.3	My, like, pitch went way, like, all over the radio dial.
0:45.9	Like, I was like, wee-wee.
0:46.9	Like, I was like, started out.
0:50.7	I was like, uh, it's about, uh, metaphysical puppeteers.
0:54.8	Ray Fularson on ambiguity, open endings, and incomplete lists.
0:59.6	Then Iranian journalist Nazilafati helps us get to know Great Lady Nerd of History, Shereen Abadi.
1:02.7	And we get homework from the best shows Tom Sharpling and John Worcester.
1:05.0	That and your nerd confessions on nerd at.
1:07.6	Because everybody's a little nerdy about something.
1:09.6	Make it snappy, nerd.
1:10.5	Nerds! Nerd!
1:14.6	We're talking with author Raph Larson today.
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