Political Gabfest - Rural Arkansas Explored in an Extra Gabfest Reads
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🗓️ 6 July 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz are on vacation, but Emily taped an extra episode of Gabfest Reads for everyone. She sits down with author Monica Potts to talk about her new memoir The Forgotten Girls. They discuss growing up in rural Arkansas, Monica’s childhood best friend Darci, and more.
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, Emily, and John chatter about what’s making them happy this summer, an article about how bad things really are, and more.
In the June edition of Gabfest Reads, Emily talks with Peter Singer @PeterSinger about his book, Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed.
Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com or Tweet us @SlateGabfest. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
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| 0:36.1 | Welcome to the Slate Political Gabb Fest. |
| 0:47.6 | For Thursday, July 6th, this is the bonus Gabb Fest Reads episode. |
| 0:52.7 | I'm Emily Bazlan, I'm a staff writer at the New York Times magazine and a fellow at Yale Law School. |
| 0:58.1 | John and David are out this week, so we're going to do something a little different. |
| 1:01.9 | We have a great extra Gabb Fest Reads. |
| 1:04.7 | I'm joined by Monica Paz, who is the author of The Forgotten Girls. |
| 1:08.6 | Hey, Monica. |
| 1:09.6 | Hey, Emily, thanks for having me. |
| 1:11.4 | Oh, so glad you're here. |
| 1:13.4 | So I want to set the scene for your book a little bit. |
| 1:15.6 | The setting for the book is your hometown of Clinton, Arkansas. |
| 1:19.3 | Population about 2,500 on the southern side of the Ozarks. |
| 1:24.1 | And you write that almost everyone in Clinton goes to an evangelical church. |
| 1:29.1 | And in the halls of the town's only high school, everyone knows everything about everyone else, or seems to. |
| 1:34.8 | Who you dated, where you bought your clothes, how you acted on weekends, and even your destiny, |
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