Big Mood, Little Mood: Living While Dying

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🗓️ 5 December 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Danny Lavery welcomes Maud Newton, author of Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation. Lavery and Newton tackle two letters. First, from a letter writer who doesn’t want to tell her new boyfriend about her cancer diagnosis. Another letter writer is worried that her favorite aunt can’t stop talking about her political organization. Plus, a deep dive into Newton’s new book, Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation. Slate Plus members get another episode of Big Mood, Little Mood every Friday: sign up now! Need advice? Send Danny a question here. Email: mood@slate.com Production by Phil Surkis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.4	slash Mood Plus. That's Slate.com slash Mood Plus. slate. Hello and welcome back to Big Mood Little Mood. I am your host Danny Lavori and with me in the studio this week is
1:29.0	Maude Newton who's written for the New York Times magazine Harperspers, the New York Times Book Review, and Oxford American.
1:35.6	Maude, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me, Danny. I am so looking forward to this.
1:46.2	I am this week coming to all of you from Cornwall So I'm slowly making my way around the the country and continuing to convalesce so I am basically just living my best life tramping around the
1:56.1	countryside and not being sick which is those are two of my favorite things.
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