Hello and welcome to South Beach Sessions. You know we are growing around here at Metal

Lark Media. We are adding a lot of voices and people and talents and expertise that are

someone and people that I think that you are going to really grow to admire and love their

work if you don't already. And Lynn Novich has been someone who has been making great

documentaries with Ken Burns for a long time. The latest is Hemingway, it is exhaustive, it is

profound, it is humanizing, it is complicated. And I want to talk to her about that because it,

much of what she makes is artful on subject matter where the degree of difficulty. I don't believe

people understand how hard it is to go through archives and keep that visually stimulating when

you're going through such dense and complicated subject matter. So anyways, I'm thrilled to have

Lynn Novich doing advisory stuff and consulting stuff for Metal Lark Media and thrilled to have her

on with us now to talk about her latest work which is as I said, as all of them seem to be Lynn

and thank you for joining us. Exhaustive, did you enjoy this process? Are you someone who enjoys

the meticulous thoroughness of having to go through every piece of dust and particle in someone's

past and bring it to life? Thank you first of all, Tentra, having me and I'm really excited to

be working with all of you. And you know, just to say that I don't think enjoys probably the right

word. It's totally absorbing and captivating and you just lose yourself in a story in the material.

And that's a wonderful feeling. I think it's almost akin to what I've heard described as flow

where you sort of lose track of everything else and you're just in this mode of total immersion

in a story and a subject. And it accumulates over time, the more you learn, the more you ask

questions, the more you want to dig deeper. And one of the wonderful things about the work we do

is how collaborative it is. So we have a credible team of producers who dig deep for all the archival

material that Ken and I get to review with our editors and with our producers' therapist. So

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