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Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Episode 5 - Wesley Morris

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Higher Ground

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Society & Culture

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2016

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Wesley Morris, fresh from delivering a keynote address at the San Francisco International Film Festival, and only a few months into his new job as Critic-at-Large at The New York Times, sits down with Sam to discuss his work, and the task of making criticism speak to wider social and cultural concerns. Special thanks to the 59th San Francisco International Film Festival for hosting this conversation. More info about the festival here: http://Festival.sffs.org Original illustration by Krishna Shenoi. Music for the show provided by https://soundcloud.com/vanilla. 


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0:00.0

Pushkin. I'm David Remnickin each week on the New Yorker radio hour.

0:12.8

My colleagues and I unpack what's happening in a very complicated world.

0:17.6

You'll hear from the New Yorker's award-winning reporters and thinkers.

0:21.0

Jilani Cobb on race and justice. Jillapour on American history. and Thinkers and

0:24.0

Jil Lepore on American history, Vincent Cunningham and Gia Tolantino on

0:27.6

culture, Bill McKibbon on climate change and many more.

0:31.6

To get the context behind events in the news,

0:34.4

listen to the New Yorker radio hour,

0:36.6

wherever you get your podcast. I'm going to Talk Easy. Weekly podcast of interviews with fascinating people from all walks of life.

1:04.8

I'm your host, Samford Goso. Thanks for tuning in.

1:07.7

So for those keeping track today marks episode number five for us here on the show, which means a month has passed since

1:15.4

we first launched.

1:16.9

And somehow, I don't know how that's really possible, but I think that's what happened

1:21.8

when you're pouring so much of your time into one venture.

1:27.6

Time goes by very quickly, I learned.

1:30.5

The responses, my God, thank you for the responses that we have received thus far.

1:35.9

They have been particularly encouraging.

1:38.8

Those who have been critical to show have been fair and honest in their assessment and are helping us make it better so I appreciate that as well.

1:46.2

It's a terrifying thing to put something new out into the world, something that has no backing really other than ourselves and the people

1:55.7

working on this show and we're all hoping someone somewhere likes it and people have and so thank you for doing that and I think I

2:04.8

think we're in this for the long haul so again forever and always thank you for

2:10.9

listening and tuning in.

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