Episode 159 - Morgan Parker

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Welcome back! This week, celebrated poet, author, and essayist Morgan Parker sits with Sam to discuss her latest book, Magical Negro. They talk about what poetry can look (and sound) like in the Internet era, the loneliness of being a writer in LA, Morgan's experiences of dating (and writing about) white men named Matt, the visceral intensity of her book readings, and how mass (predominately white) audiences engage with her work.

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0:00.0	Pushkin
0:07.0	writing is the best way that I can communicate and I think I learned that really early on that
0:19.6	social interactions like I would come away from it feeling like I didn't exactly articulate myself in the way that I wanted to or I could see that that there was a misunderstanding or I just really didn't feel like I had verbal language that would fit the playground to describe, you know, like what I'm thinking and how I'm seeing the world.
0:38.0	So I've always needed to process thoughts in that way.
0:45.0	That was Morgan Parker. I'm San Francisco so and this is talk easy.
0:49.0	Welcome to the show. This is Talk Easy. I'm San Francisco. We have been
1:18.1	off for about two months now. January and a little bit of February is the only time this podcast takes a break.
1:27.0	Despite everyone's wishes on the show to take more breaks, we do about 45 of these a year every Sunday morning.
1:37.0	If you have not listened to the show before, welcome. If you have been listening, welcome back. 20 is going to be a big year and we're going to do our best to keep up with it.
1:48.0	Apparently in the past two months some big things have happened.
1:52.0	In my notes I have a few things written down, including
1:56.0	our president who has not been impeached. Bong Jun-ho won best director and parasite won best
2:01.7	picture.
2:03.4	Are those things equally important to Trump's lack of impeachment?
2:07.8	I think so.
2:09.0	Ru Paul hosted S&L.
2:11.5	That was big?
2:13.4	Kobe Bryant passed away.
2:15.6	Maybe the second best player of all time.
2:18.9	That was horrendous and heartbreaking.
2:22.3	Other things happen too, but those are the big highlights.
2:25.0	In case you somehow missed them,
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