Ep 064 - Big Blonde and Here We Are, by Dorothy Parker

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

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🗓️ 9 June 2014

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Dorothy Parker was a prolific Jazz Age writer who rose to prominence during her days as a member of the Algonquin Round Table - a group of writers, critics and actors who liked to spend lunch cracking wise and practically joking. A celebrated poet, Parker also churned out dozens of short stories, earning herself an O. Henry Short Story Prize for "Big Blonde" which we discuss on today's show. We also cover her biting portrait of newlyweds "Here We Are," the Reading Rainbow Kickstarter, and how babies are not to be trusted with anything.

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0:00.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale,
0:05.1	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:10.4	Plus, these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.6	Did you watch Reading Rainbow when you were a kid?
0:38.8	I have recollection of watching an episode of Reading Rainbow in a library at school and it was an
0:46.1	episode on like illusions, like optical illusions. But I don't remember watching a lot of it other than
0:56.8	that. I remember the song pretty well. Yeah, I remember the song. I have like vague,
1:02.4	non-specific memories of reading it.
1:06.1	I'm not reading it watching, watching Reading Rainbow.
1:14.5	Yeah, I don't really have, I don't know if I just was not watching the right kids TV.
1:19.8	I don't know. It was just, it was so, was it of a time that we missed?
1:25.5	It was so long ago that I think maybe we don't remember it as much. I guess. But I think we can
1:32.6	agree that it's like a force for good in the world, right? Yeah, I think so.
1:36.8	Did you know that they were making new episodes of it up until 2006?
1:41.3	I really? Yeah. Like I wanted to say, like yeah, I knew about that. But then I thought about the date.
1:48.7	I was like that's crazy. They started in 1983. Who was hosting it? It was still George?
1:55.5	The whole time of our Burton. Wow. Yeah. That's some dedication right there.
2:00.8	It's just great. Yeah. And then after it went off, went off air, they developed an app that
2:09.9	did some stuff. My friend, Jackie, actually interviewed Love Art Burton for an article that went up
2:18.9	at ours Technica about it, which is cool. And then he came back a couple weeks ago with this
2:24.3	Kickstarter. And he says, you know, we want to make a, we want to make like a web and like
2:30.0	smartphone portal now because we, you know, in the 80s, we came to TV because that's where kids were
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