John Cameron Mitchell, Taffy Brodesser-Akner and a Doom Metal Schoolteacher

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Journalist Taffy Brodesser-Akner talks with Kurt Andersen about her first novel, “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” a book about divorce that has both humor and bite. John Cameron Mitchell was behind the punk musical “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” and his latest project is “Anthem: Homunculus,” a podcast musical. Mitchell and composer Bryan Weller perform music from the podcast in our studio. And our latest installment of Day Jobs features Steve Von Till, the guitarist in the post-metal band Neurosis, who also has a decidedly more subdued career — as an elementary school teacher.

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0:00.0	from PRX.
0:06.0	Today on Studio 360,
0:08.8	Every man at some point would say, or most of the men, not all of them, would say she was just so angry all the time.
0:18.1	Noticing a pattern in contemporary divorces. But I couldn't believe how little
0:23.4	examination of the anger question there was. I couldn't believe that nobody thought that they then had
0:28.3	to explain here's what she was angry about. Taffey brought us her Ackner on her super-buzzy first novel
0:34.0	all about divorce. Fleichmann is in trouble. Plus, John Cameron Mitchell first took
0:41.4	his pitch for a musical TV series to Hollywood, but... My friend Michael Stunel invented the term
0:47.7	resting pitch face, which is the face that people hold when you're telling them something
0:53.1	they don't want to buy.
0:54.2	How the star and creator of Hedwig and the Angry Angel ended up making an epic musical
0:59.2	podcast. That's ahead in Studio 360 right after this.
1:08.2	This is Studio 360. I'm Kurt Anand. and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
1:13.1	This first level of garden.
1:14.4	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
1:16.3	I like to have the roasted chicken piece.
1:18.0	Very well done.
1:19.1	Editing is all about timing.
1:20.8	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
1:23.4	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
1:25.9	Studio 360.
1:27.8	With Kurt Anderson.
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