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

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4.7 • 1.4K 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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0:22.3	Coming up an author tries to describe his own novel and it gets weird.
0:26.2	My pitch went way, like all over the radio dial.
0:29.0	Like I was like, wewoo, like I was like, start out, I was like, uh, it's about it's about metaphysical puppeteers.
0:35.4	Ray Larson on ambiguity open endings and incomplete lists.
0:39.5	Then Iranian journalist Nazilofotti helps us get to know Great Lady
0:42.4	Nert of History,
0:43.4	Shirin Abotti. And we get homework from the best shows Tom Sharpling and John Worcester.
0:47.4	That in your nerd confessions on Nurdette.
0:49.7	Because everybody's a little nerdy about something.
0:52.1	Make it snappy, nerd!
0:55.0	Nerns! Nern!
0:59.0	We're talking with author Rafe Larson today.
1:02.0	You might remember his first book. It came out in 2009 and
1:04.7	it's called The Selected Works of T.S. Spibbit. It was very well loved. I have to admit that I
1:09.8	actually haven't read it yet. It's one of those books that's on my list of once
1:14.5	there's not being new books in the world I can go back and read the old ones. But you
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