I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest.

Elvis has entered the building edition.

It's Wednesday, March 4, 2006.

On today's show, Baz Luhrman already has made an Elvis biopic. Why not a documentary? Epic. Elvis Presley

pieces together archival footage, much of it recently found from his various Vegas residencies,

to remind us that Presley, even in his notorious later years, was a consummate showman.

And then Tracy Morgan, backed by some 30 Rock Vets returns with

the fall and rise of Reggie Dinkins. The concede is he's a football superstar long since

laid low by a gambling scandal. He's hired a British filmmaker to make a puff documentary about his

life. What could go wrong? Costars Daniel Radcliffe and Erica Alexander as his ex.

And finally, existential bravery or exploitative trash.

The Netflix show Famous Last Words grant celebrities a final interview knowing it will be aired only after they die.

Joining me today is June Thomas, the writer, the podcaster, the legend, the very OG friend of this program, and author of a place of our own six spaces that shaped queer women's culture.

June, welcome back.

Thank you, Stephen.

It's, as always, an honor to be here.

What part of the world are you in now?

I'm back in Edinburgh. I was in Charlottesville, Virginia, the last two weeks, but I'm back home now.

Fabulous. And you were doing some research there, correct?

I was. I was in the archives of the subject of my next book, Rita May Brown, writing a biography of her.

We're very, very, very excited for that project, that book,

and for you to say the word book over and over again, any excuse. And we're joined, and this is,

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