Best of Design Matters: A.M. Homes

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Best known for her controversial novels featuring extreme situations and characters, A.M. Homes discusses her most recent book, The Unfolding, and her remarkable career authoring thirteen extraordinarily original books.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
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0:15.2	School Professor Modoupe Akinola.
0:18.0	Every week, she'll introduce you to leaders with unique insights on work, answering questions
0:22.4	like, how do four day work weeks work?
0:25.3	Do will a machine ever take my job?
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0:34.2	This archival episode of Design Matters originally dropped in September of 2022.
0:39.7	My own relationship to my own identity is ever in flux in some way, right?
0:45.2	So I still would say I don't have a firm sense of who I am this person, so I don't have
0:52.1	that point of view to write from in some sense.
0:58.3	From the Ted Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman.
1:05.6	For 18 years, Debbie Milman has been talking with designers and other creative people about
1:09.6	what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working
1:13.7	on.
1:15.4	On this episode, AM Homes talks about the politics in her recent novel.
1:20.8	politics is the push and pull of who we are and who we hope to be, I think, and I really
1:25.7	felt like something weird was happening in this country.
1:28.9	Just be told, though, Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls, being serious, is almost like the video for
1:38.5	how can it be where you're just kind of waiting for him to crack a joke and then he doesn't.
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