Maya Hawke on the Fear of “Missing Out,” and Jen Silverman on “There’s Going to Be Trouble”

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🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The popular actor and songwriter speaks with Rachel Syme about not going to college—the subject of her new single. And a novelist discusses the excitement and uncertainty of protests.

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0:00.0	This is that right?
0:03.0	The New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and the New Yorker.
0:10.0	Lucy, is that right? This is the New Yorker Radio Hour I'm David Remnick.
0:18.3	Lucy wants to write the next great American novel she can't even read the bottle.
0:28.0	Myahawk broke out as an actor five years ago in the cast of Stranger Things.
0:33.2	And since then, she seems to be everywhere,
0:35.6	including last year's asteroid city and Maestro.
0:39.6	But she's also a musician,
0:42.0	and that's no little side project for her.
0:44.0	Her debut was praised in Pitch Fork and My Hawk is about to release her third album.
0:49.6	It's called Chaos Angel.
0:51.6	Staff writer Rachel Sine caught up with her at rehearsal.
0:55.0	Lucy wants to write the next great American novel. She can't even read the bottle.
1:02.0	I wanted to talk to Maya because I think she is one of the most interesting
1:06.8	young performers working today and a true kind of artistic polymath. It's been a huge chunk of her life being on stranger things,
1:14.6	especially well the pandemic took a chunk out of it. But she has been on that show since she was 19 years old and she's now 25.
1:20.6	And at the same time, she is a musician on her third record.
1:26.3	So she's doing so many different things
1:29.0	on so many different levels that I find that
1:31.0	really interesting as a model for a young person's career right now in
1:34.1	Hollywood.
1:35.1	Missing out missing out missing out now.
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