Dana Spiotta: Innocents and Others

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Dana Spiotta's Innocents and Others tells the feminist story of how women make do in a male-dominated world through two female filmmaker best friends, and a third, troubled woman adept at beguiling powerful Hollywood men.

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0:00.0	Hearby Monsters is a podcast about facing the unknown. I, uh, I start to float, float away from the earth. Have you ever smoked crack before? We're all kind of frantically searching for meaning. They have the neurotransmitters. I think we're all jugglers in some way. Yo, we're not broken. Crazy delinquents. We're in our last day, young man. Listen to Hear Be Monsters.
0:22.4	The podcast about the unknown.
0:24.2	On the KCRW iTunes page.
0:31.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannon Foundation.
0:34.9	Boots.
0:39.9	Well, we'd be, we're doing. by Lannin Foundation. Boots. Where would we be without boos?
0:43.8	Where would we be without good?
0:46.0	No, Timberd.
0:47.6	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:50.9	But where would we be without books?
0:59.0	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt. This is Bookworm, and today I'm happy to be with Dana Spioda.
1:05.0	Her new book is called Innocents and Others.
1:08.0	That's Innocence, C-E-N-T-S.
1:12.9	And they are people who we might not think of as innocent.
1:19.8	Most of them are fuel themselves to be very guilty.
1:26.2	I'm curious, who are the innocents in this book? Are they all?
1:30.3	Yeah, I mean, I think that all of the characters are both innocent and other at various times, and certainly start out as innocent and maybe go back to it somehow if they can. Yeah.
1:46.1	Well, the first one that we meet is a woman named Meadow.
1:51.9	She has decided because Orson Wells, she says, has learned to be a filmmaker by watching, she thinks city lights 20 times in a row.
2:05.9	She's going to an arts high school.
2:11.1	Crossroads is the real version of it here in Santa Monica.
2:16.4	And you call it, what is it? Wake School. And she watches Citizen
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