Man in the Box - 'The Deadline'
The Last Archive
Pushkin Industries
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Today, we’re ending our Deadline mini-series with an essay about one of our favorite TV shows: Dr. Who. Afterwards, Jill and Ben talk about the greatness of genre fiction and Jill’s love-hate relationship with postmodernism.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. Huh. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. |
| 0:23.0 | Oh my gosh. |
| 0:27.0 | Oh my gosh. |
| 0:28.0 | Wow. |
| 0:30.0 | Oh my God. |
| 0:32.0 | Radio Lab. |
| 0:33.0 | Adventures on the edge of what we think we know. |
| 0:41.0 | Today, dear listener, is the last day of our deadline mini-series. |
| 0:46.0 | For the past few weeks, Jill Lepore has been reading some of her old New Yorker essays, |
| 0:51.0 | and then we've been talking about craft and theme. |
| 0:53.8 | We hope you've enjoyed it, and if you want more, you can buy the full audio book of the deadline |
| 0:58.4 | at pushkin.F.m. |
| 1:00.5 | Today, we're ending on an old favorite of mine, Jill's essay about Doctor Who. |
| 1:05.0 | If you listen to the last season of the last archive, you'll understand why this one hits close to home. |
| 1:10.0 | But I especially enjoyed talking to Jill about this essay because I had the chance to ask her something I've often wondered. |
| 1:16.5 | What's so appealing about genre fiction? |
| 1:19.0 | And why does it matter that we write about it? |
| 1:21.0 | And what's the deal with her love-hate relationship with |
| 1:24.0 | postmodernism. I am left with a puzzle about this which is you famously in |
| 1:31.4 | the last episode of the first season of the last archive |
| 1:35.0 | decry postmodernism. |
| 1:37.2 | And I like, Doctor who is so postmodern? |
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