Introducing: The Last Archivist
The Last Archive
Pushkin Industries
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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PROGRAMMING NOTE: The third season of The Last Archive is coming this fall! It will remain free and available everywhere. In the meantime, we are launching a new, subscription-only series as part of the Pushkin+ offering. It’s called The Last Archivist, a series of conversations between historian Jill Lepore and collectors, curators, librarians, and keepers of history. This first episode is available for free, but if you want to listen to the rest of the series, subscribe in Apple Podcasts, or at www.pushkin.fm. Stay tuned for Season Three of The Last Archive later this year, which will be free and available everywhere you listen to podcasts.
DESCRIPTION: In the first episode of this Pushkin+ series, Jill Lepore talks to Reginald Dwayne Betts about Freedom Reads: an initiative to build libraries in prisons and jails across America. Betts is a MacArthur Genius Grant award recipient and the author of "Felon" – a collection of poems about the effects of incarceration.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello listeners, Malcolm Gladwell here. |
| 0:03.3 | Before this episode starts, I wanted to let you know that there is a month of new content |
| 0:08.2 | coming from Pushkin that you can hear early and at free. |
| 0:12.6 | Our team has exciting new shows and podcasts like a new series from my podcast Revisioness |
| 0:18.7 | History, Paul McCartney's brand new podcast McCartney, a life in lyrics, new and exclusive |
| 0:24.5 | content from the Happiness Lab by Dr. Laurie Santos and a brand new season of the podcast |
| 0:30.5 | called The Dream that dives into the truth behind life coaches and self-help. |
| 0:37.2 | You won't want to miss Pushkin's September launches. |
| 0:41.0 | And if you want to binge shows early and at free, you can hear all of Pushkin's content |
| 0:47.0 | by becoming a Pushkin Plus subscriber. |
| 0:49.8 | Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or by visiting pushkin.fm slash plus. |
| 1:19.8 | It's all about reason, about finding our way towards hope and common knowledge and out |
| 1:28.1 | of the epistemological pickle we explored in seasons 1 and 2. |
| 1:33.1 | But making a new season takes time, so meanwhile I want to introduce you to a new limited run |
| 1:37.9 | series that I'm doing called The Last Archivist. |
| 1:40.9 | Over the years I've met hundreds and hundreds of archivists, collectors, curators, librarians, |
| 1:47.0 | and keepers of history, people with trinkets and facts and ideas that I want to add to our |
| 1:52.4 | collection of the known things. |
| 1:55.2 | In this series you'll hear from a few of them about their work, like how to set up a |
| 1:59.2 | library in a prison. |
| 2:01.0 | What four decades worth of eyeglasses can tell us about the history of a person and why |
| 2:05.6 | a trash collector in Pittsburgh is a kind of archivist too. |
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