Guest host Hanif Abdurraqib!

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

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4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The writer and poet Hanif Abdurraqib fills in for Kurt Andersen. Hanif talks to fellow writer — and fellow proud Midwesterner — Ashley C. Ford about some of her inspirations, including Toni Morrison (who, yes, was also from the Midwest). Then, with the Notorious B.I.G.’s hip hop classic “Ready to Die” turning 25 this week, we hear from one of its producers, Easy Mo Bee, and music writers Cheo Hodari Coker and Sowmya Krishnamurthy, about how the album first landed — and how its impact is still profound. Finally, Hanif talks with Laetitia Tamko, the indie rock innovator and multi-instrumentalist who performs under the stage name Vagabon.

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0:00.0	From PRX
0:03.4	Hey, I'm Hanif Abdurakib.
0:09.0	I'm a writer and poet, and I'll be hosting this hour of Studio 360.
0:14.3	Today on Studio 360.
0:16.0	If I'm in charge, then I'm going to choose to put myself in a position where I'm at the center of
0:21.5	goodness or comfort for ones. Why, even when the world seems grim, the indie rocker known as
0:28.6	Vagabond creates music that offers a window into joy.
0:36.5	Plus, it's the only book that I've ever meant to be yours.
0:46.9	Plus, it's the only book that I've ever finished and then start it again, like immediately.
0:51.6	Writer Ashley C. Ford on encountering her first Tony Morrison novel.
0:57.7	The more I read it, the more the puzzle unlocked, and I felt like the more I saw myself.
1:01.0	That's ahead in Studio 360, right after this.
1:08.8	Studio 360. Hey, I'm Hanifab Daraakib, sitting in for Kurt Anderson this week.
1:14.6	I'm a writer, a poet, and a proud Midwesterner living in Columbus, Ohio.
1:23.6	My mother came home to her children's skin knee raw.
1:33.5	She sat in the bathtub for hours and bled into the water.
1:40.2	Ashley C. Ford was born and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, though she lives in Brooklyn now.
1:45.8	She's known for her profiles of celebrities like Missy Elliott, Serena Williams, and Anne Hathaway, in magazines like Marie Claire and Allure. She's also known for her personal essays,
1:51.6	like this one from 2012, called What Burns in the Pit.
1:56.0	While she stared into the space between herself and the walls, her body purged its sin,
2:05.0	staining the off-white fiberglass.
2:09.3	My brother and I sat in the hallways, making sure she wasn't giving up on her breathing,
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