Culture Gabfest: Exploding Birkins

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🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Dana Stevens, Julia Turner, and Stephen Metcalf discuss The Day the Music Burned with Jody Rosen, about the massive loss of master tapes from historically important record labels due to fire, then CBS's The Good Fight with Vulture's Mark Harris, and Sally Rooney's novel Normal People. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	I'm Stephen Metcalf and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest exploding Birken's
0:17.0	edition. It's Wednesday June 26, 2019. On today's show The Good Fight is the sequel to
0:22.2	CBS's much beloved and sorely, The Good Fight is the sequel to CBS's much beloved and
0:23.7	sorely missed The Good Wife. And we discuss it with the wonderful Mark Harris of
0:27.3	Vulture, and then we're joined by extreme friend of the program, E-FOP, Jody Rosen to discuss his really epic expose.
0:35.6	It really is an extraordinary piece of writing in the New York Times magazine
0:38.9	called Today the Music Burn. And finally, Sally Rooney is a very young, impudently young Irish writer whose novels have lit readers' minds on fire. We discuss her latest and it appears to be the big summer read this year, the novel Normal People.
0:53.0	Joining me today is Julia Turner, who is of course deputy managing editor of the LA Times.
0:59.0	Hey Julia.
1:00.0	Hello, I'm so happy to be back.
1:01.0	It is so incredibly good to have you back. How are you doing?
1:04.8	I'm good I missed you guys I can walk again I'm not dead I just brain my ankle
1:09.2	grievously and I'm excited to chat with you guys this week about this exciting bevy of topics.
1:17.0	And next week, when we strut.
1:21.0	We're already strutting.
1:22.0	We just haven't started talking about it yet, right?
1:23.8	Haven't you guys done some serious strutting already with the playlist?
1:26.8	I've been strut driving entirely through Massachusetts. There are some good songs this year,
1:31.5	so we are we are processing your
1:34.3	suggestions and we look forward to revealing our selections next week.
1:38.0	Yeah and it's not too late to send in more suggestions I should say.
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