Episode 36 - Jay Caspian Kang

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Higher Ground

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2016

⏱️ 68 minutes

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This week on Talk Easy, journalist Jay Caspian King joins the show to talk about his career writing and editing at noteworthy publications like Grantland, The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, and Vice. Sam and Jay also discuss his 2010 article about his own gambling addiction, his recent aversion to everything fiction and popular culture, and the belief buried beneath the cold cynicism of most people in journalism. All that and much more. ------------------------------------------------- Talk Easy is sponsored by MUBI. Get your 30-day free trial at http://www.mubi.com/TalkEasy. For more information about Baden Baden, MUBI’s exciting first theatrical release, check out the website and trailer. You can purchase Matt's latest, The Oliver Stone Experience, here. Follow him on Twitter @MattZollerSeitz. ------------------------------------------------- Music for the show provided by @Vanilla. Original illustrations by Krishna Shenoi: http://www.krishnabalashenoi.com/. Learn more about the show at http://www.talkeasypod.com

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1:46.0	I'm Sambergoso.
1:48.0	Today on the program we have the very talented writer Jay Caspian Kang. Born in South Korea, Kang came to prominence, at least for me, in 2010,
1:58.0	when the morning news published a story about gambling titled The High is always the pain and the pain is always the high.
2:06.4	The lengthy essay dove into Kang's personal struggles with gambling addiction.
2:11.4	The dependency on poker's inimitable high, the futility of playing cards for hours
2:16.3	on end with a group of strangers.
2:20.1	It's a piece I've read and re-read. It's in part therapeutic for me. I've always enjoyed playing
2:26.3	cards. But it's also worth revisiting because Kang puts it all on the line. To continue
2:31.9	with the poker theme, he's going all in here. It's elegant
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