Guillotine in the Mists Edition

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🗓️ 23 May 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss the royal wedding with Simon Doonan, the death of author Tom Wolfe with Laura Miller, and the way TV shows survive cancelation by examining Brooklyn Nine Nine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Delive a rule because anything goes this Christmas. Yes, even sprouts on a pizza or gravy on sushi.
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0:29.2	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:34.0	I'm Stephen.
0:36.0	I'm Stephen Metcalf and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest Guillotine and the Mists
0:47.0	Edition. It's Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018. On today's show you may have noticed we've by and large given up talking about the latest blockbuster.
0:55.0	Well one block has been busted so huge we had to talk about it.
0:59.0	The biggest of the mall, the Royal Wedding, was this past weekend.
1:03.3	We're going to discuss it with Simon Dunin.
1:06.1	And then a giant of American letters has died.
1:08.1	We discussed the not untroubled legacy, I would say.
1:10.8	Tom Wolf, co-creator of New Journalism,
1:13.5	author of The Bonfire of The Vanities,
1:15.0	the Right Stuff, many, many iconic American essays.
1:18.7	We'll do that with Slates wonderful book critic Laura Miller.
1:22.2	And finally, why does everyone suddenly understand how much they love a TV show
1:26.2	only when it gets cancelled?
1:27.5	We discussed this ancient philosophical conundrum via the specific example of Brooklyn
1:32.3	9.9. Joining me today is... via the specific example of Brooklyn 99.
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