Culture Gabfest - Annual Call-In Show: 2021

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🗓️ 29 December 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week, Steve, Dana, and Julia tackle some listener questions in our annual call-in show. Topics include: favorite pieces of art, culture their children introduced them to, and previous years’ endorsements that have become staples in the panel’s lives.

In Slate Plus, the panel continues to field some stellar listener questions.

Email us at culturefest@slate.com.

There are no endorsements this week, but here are links to some of the things mentioned in the episode:

Here’s Julia’s former (Dana approved) Cooks Illustrated blueberry muffin recipe endorsement that’s sourced from The New Best Recipe. Here’s her current favorite blueberry muffin recipe. Dana’s suggestions for content that might help with grief features Francois Couperin’s Leçons de Ténèbres. Some songs Steve would like played at his funeral include: Everything but the Girl’s cover of Captain Beefheart’s “My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains;” Nina Simone’s version of “Who Knows Where the Time Goes;” Charles Mingus’s “Myself When I Am Real;” and The Go-Between’s “Cattle and Cane.” Julia’s picks include: Felix Mendelssohn’s “Op. 62 No.3” and Superchunk’s “Me & You & Jackie Mittoo.” Here’s Dana’s Spotify playlist of her picks.

Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Nadira Goffe.

Outro music is "Lonely Calling" by Arc De Soleil.

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0:00.0	I'm Stephen McHaff and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest annual call-in show
0:14.7	2021 edition. Anyway, I think that's what we call it. It's Wednesday, December 29th,
0:20.6	2021. Happy New Year to one and all. I'm joined today by Julia Turner, Deputy Managing Editor of the LA Times, Julia. Hey.
0:29.5	Hello, hello. You're greeting me from Los Angeles, a rainy Los Angeles. Yeah, sunny this morning, but rainy this weekend, rainy this afternoon, supposedly.
0:38.8	Well, rain in L.A. is always good, right? Almost always good. Always good. And of course,
0:43.3	Dana Stevens is the film critic for Slate. Dana, uh, sunshine follows you everywhere. I don't
0:48.9	even ask. Dana, please just one more time your book, and it's a pub date.
0:54.7	Stephen, my book is Camerman, Buster Keaton, the dawn of cinema, and the invention of the 20th century,
0:59.4	and the pub date is 125-22, less than a month away now.
1:03.2	Okay, before we move on, we should acknowledge that, you know, in some ways, peerless Joan Didion,
1:08.9	the great nonfiction and fiction writer essayist and just sort of
1:13.3	moral presence in American life, literary slash moral witness in American life for the last
1:19.2	40 plus years, 50 years has died. And of course, normally we would be discussing her today
1:26.0	at length. It almost feels like it requires a segment
1:29.1	and a plus or maybe even two segments to discuss someone whose presence in all of our
1:34.8	creative lives as writers is so huge. But this is the call-in show, so we'll be talking about
1:41.7	Joan Diddyan, presumably next show. Okay, moving on.
1:45.0	Let's listen to our first question.
1:47.2	Hi, lovely Culture Gab Fest people.
1:50.2	This is Mike clearly, boiling all the way from London, England.
1:55.2	I'd love to know what work of art, drawing, painting, or a photograph
2:02.3	would you love to own?
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