Episode 28: Annie Dillard, Anohni’s New Sound, and Torture in a Florida Prison

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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🗓️ 29 April 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A former prison counsellor discusses the abuse and torture of mentally ill inmates she suspected inside a Florida correctional institution—and the emotional price she paid for staying silent. Plus, Anohni, the former lead singer of Antony and the Johnsons, discusses her recent turn to pop music; Annie Dillard talks with David Remnick about a new collection of essays; and William Finnegan takes us surfing.

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0:00.0	You're listening to The New Yorker Radio Hour.
0:08.0	Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. A few months ago, I had the mad idea
0:14.5	to let William Finnegan, a friend of mine and a longtime surfer, take me for a surfing lesson
0:20.5	out on the Rockaways.
0:22.6	All right, here we go.
0:25.6	Go ahead and lay down.
0:27.6	I'll push it out.
0:29.6	Get on it?
0:30.6	Yep.
0:31.6	Finnegan's book about his life as a surfer has just won the Pulitzer Prize.
0:35.6	My attempt at surfing, however,
0:39.3	Yeah! Oh, Jesus Christ!
0:45.1	Did not win any prizes.
0:49.9	But we're going to start off the hour
0:51.5	with a very different kind of experience with nature
0:54.0	that's no more in my comfort zone than surfing.
0:58.0	You know, I love your stuff. I love your work.
1:02.4	Oh, thank you. And I am the least... How do I put this?
1:06.6	A country... Rural.
1:11.3	I think that's a good way to put it.
1:13.8	Annie Dillard has been writing about nature and spirituality since the 1970s when she won the
1:19.1	Pulitzer Prize for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
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