Episode 307: Alison Bechdel, Chuck Palahniuk, Colleen
The Dinner Party Download
American Public Media
4.6 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2016
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Encore Broadcast: Alison Bechdel — whose graphic memoir “Fun Home” is now a 12-time Tony-nominated musical — tells us how she gets comfy, with her life on stage… “Fight Club” author Chuck Palahniuk schools us in prank-ology, to celebrate his new sequel… The Posts tackle some especially hairy etiquette hang-ups… We tune into an avant-garde-tinged […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the dinner party download. This is your icebreaker. |
| 0:06.5 | All right, here's my joke. What does a nosy pepper do? It gets jalapeno business. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm Brendan Francis Nune. I'm Rico Gagliano, and from APM American Public Media, this is The Dinner Party Download, |
| 0:23.3 | the culture show that helps you win your dinner party. |
| 0:25.5 | You just got a joke from author Mia Alvar. |
| 0:27.8 | That'll help break the ice. |
| 0:29.2 | Her latest collection of stories is called In The Country, and we'll hear more from her later. |
| 0:33.1 | Plus, just in time for the Tony Awards, we chat with Alison Beckdale. |
| 0:36.7 | Last year, the stage adaptation of her graphic novel Fun Home won Best Musical. |
| 0:41.4 | Also coming up, Fight Club author Chuck Pollanick tells us how to change society with pranks. |
| 0:46.4 | And if that all sounds familiar, that's because this is an encore broadcast of a show we first aired last summer. |
| 0:51.4 | So cast her mind back to a time when the Warriors and the Cavaliers |
| 0:54.4 | were also playing in the NBA finals. |
| 0:56.7 | Some things never change. |
| 0:58.4 | That's right. |
| 0:58.9 | When is at any party, we started with Small Talks? |
| 1:03.8 | Now for a story you might not have heard. |
| 1:05.9 | We are speaking with Rehan Harmancy. |
| 1:07.5 | She is editor-in-chief of the websitelitz Obscura, a lovely travel website. |
| 1:12.1 | Rehan, what story are you going to be talking about at parties this weekend? |
| 1:15.2 | I'm going to be talking about the future library. |
| 1:17.9 | The future library. |
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