Culture Gabfest: Endgame

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🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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On this week’s episode, Steve, Dana, and Julia talk with New York Times book critic Dwight Garner about his book Garner’s Quotations: A Modern Miscellany. Next, they are joined by Slate’s television critic Willa Paskin to discuss The Queen’s Gambit. Finally, the panel imagines how the Trump administration will be remembered in American Studies classes years from now. In Slate Plus, the hosts talk with writer and enneagram counselor Jacob Rubin about their enneagrams. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Rachael Allen. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on the Culture Gabfest each episode, and access to exclusive shows like Dana Stevens’ classic movies podcast Flashback. Sign up now to listen and support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Stephen MacKaff and this is the Slate Culture Gapfest edition.
0:07.0	I'm Stephen MacCaff and this is the Slate Culture Gabfest End Game Edition.
0:14.0	It's Wednesday, November 11th, 2020.
0:16.7	On today's show, The Queen's Gamut is a limited series that's on Netflix right now.
0:20.1	It tells a story of an orphan who discovers she is a chess prodigy and it follows
0:24.7	the long and tortuous path she must follow to unlock her own greatness. It stars
0:28.5	Anna Taylor Joy. It is a joy. We are joined by Will a Pasin, also a joy to discuss it and then we are so pleased to welcome
0:35.7	Dwight Garner, the book reviewer and critic extraordinary for the New York Times, onto the show for
0:39.8	the first time to discuss Garner's quotations of modern miscellaneous what is called a commonplace
0:45.2	book of extraordinary quotes from his capacious reading over the decades.
0:49.2	It'll be fun to talk to Dwight, I guarantee it.
0:51.3	And finally, cast your mind far into the future let's say 70 years
0:57.1	now cast it back to now what words will we possibly find to describe the previous four years?
1:04.6	How will historians or American Studies
1:07.1	look back on the circus that has been the Trump presidency?
1:10.5	We will.
1:11.9	That one around, I'm joined by Julia Turner who is the deputy managing editor of the LA Times. Julia, hey.
1:18.0	Hello hello. And of course Dana Stevens is the film critic for slate.com. Hey Dana. Hey Steve.
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