‘My Ántonia,’ Lynda Barry and Roger Deakins

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Cartoonist Lynda Barry is famous for drawing the darkly funny strip “Ernie Pook’s Comeek” that appeared in alternative newsweeklies for three decades, but for the latest installment in our Guilty Pleasure series, she makes a case for why she loves perhaps the most mainstream and most mocked comic of all: “The Family Circus.” Our latest American Icon installment is about “My Ántonia” by Willa Cather, and why that novel — and author — have never really gotten their due. And Kurt Andersen talks with Oscar-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins about working on so many Coen brothers films, why he still operates the camera himself and more.

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0:00.0	From PRX.
0:06.4	Today on Studio 360, if I'd had a couple drinks and I was around a cartoonist, I was really ready to get into fisticuffs over family circus.
0:14.5	Why cartoonist Linda Berry loves the most unhip comic in the newspaper, The Family Circus.
0:21.1	That strip was deliverance for me.
0:23.9	I always felt this happiness like there's that world, that world exists somewhere,
0:29.6	and it's a place I'd like to get to.
0:32.4	And then one day I did get there.
0:35.8	Plus...
0:43.8	We have this attitude about the old Dower Willa Cather, never smiling, and just thinking about pioneer ladies all the time.
0:45.6	The unjust way that Willa Cather gets short shrift.
0:49.6	It seems like she sort of was purposefully left out of the canon, and I don't understand it because
0:54.4	she's amazing.
0:55.2	The underappreciated greatness of Willa Cather's novel My Antonia.
0:59.5	That's ahead on Studio 360 right after this.
1:08.2	This is Studio 360.
1:10.1	I'm Kurt Aniston, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. This first level of gardens. This is Studio 360. I'm Kurt Annes.
1:13.1	And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
1:14.5	This first level of garden. This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
1:16.3	I like to have the roasted chicken base.
1:18.0	Very well done.
1:19.2	Editing is all about timing.
1:20.9	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
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