Episode 123: John Jeremiah Sullivan, Dick Cavett-iquette, and Wild Flag
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American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2011
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week: Essayist John Jeremiah Sullivan takes a hard left turn…Talk show giant Dick Cavett spits out etiquette tips… We learn the meaning of “peplum”… Mega-producer Nile Rodgers gets revenge on Studio 54… The Edsel flops right into a cocktail glass… And Caldecott Award-winner Brian Selznick (Hugo) shares unforgettable picture books – for adults. Plus a playlist from indierock supergroup Wild Flag.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party. This is your icebreaker. Okay, here's the joke. It's ancient, but |
| 0:07.5 | Grasshopper walks into a bar and the bartender says, hey, we got a drink named after you. And the |
| 0:12.7 | grasshopper says, really? You got a drink named Med? I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum. I'm Rico Gagliano, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party, the culture |
| 0:25.9 | show that gives you an edge in your weekend conversations. |
| 0:28.9 | You just got a joke from Adam Felber, writer for real time with Bill Maher, and a regular |
| 0:33.0 | on Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me. |
| 0:34.2 | Nice. |
| 0:35.2 | Heard of that show. |
| 0:35.7 | That'll help you break the ice. |
| 0:36.8 | Later you'll learn something you didn't know from prize-winning author John Jeremiah Sullivan. |
| 0:41.1 | He's published a new book of essays. |
| 0:42.8 | Also, talk show legend Dick Cabot is here to answer etiquette questions and tell us some amazing |
| 0:47.6 | Groucho Marx one-liners. |
| 0:49.2 | The man behind Martin Scorsese's new film lists his favorite illustrated books and the history of the Edsel. |
| 0:55.8 | But first, as at any dinner party, we start with Small Talk. |
| 1:01.9 | All week long, you've probably been hearing these cultural stories. |
| 1:05.3 | Ricky Jervis has been confirmed to once again host the Golden Globes. |
| 1:08.8 | The National Book Award for Nonfiction went to Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve. |
| 1:13.2 | Twy hard fans, many of them teenage girls are younger, at the LA premiere of Breaking |
| 1:17.7 | Dawn Part One. |
| 1:18.8 | Now for something you haven't heard, we turn to Aaron Britt. |
| 1:21.5 | He is the deputy editor of Dwell magazine. |
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