Hey everyone happy new year. We have a special treat for you today. You may have heard in the past few weeks

We've been working on an experiment a new mini podcast series called pull quote The episodes are short audio gems that we've

dug up from our archives and from elsewhere. We started making these because

we need them. Short doses of reflection when we want a little grounding.

And this week we are sending our first batch of episodes

to those of you who've donated to support the show.

But as we start this new year together, we thought we'd

share the first pull quote with all of you. I very much believe in

plunging in and to have the good sense to see well it's going nowhere and

making a new start reversing it. I don't I don't think I'm self-pittying

so well not in public anyway, though I must say self-pity feels marvelous.

When I see people doing it I think, oh that looks wonderful. This is writer Jamaica

Kincaid. As you start this new year remember her words jump in try something new and

if it doesn't work you can always restart and you decide

whether self-pity works for you it can be marvelous yes it's a narcissism I like

narcissism I'm not so good at it. But it looks marvelous.

Jamaica Kincaid spoke to producer Sarah Montague back in 1996.

That's your pull quote from Death Sex and Money and WNYC. I'm Anna Sale.

Oh, it sounds beautiful.

We've had a lot of fun making these.

Thank you to those of you who have already donated to the show.

If you want to hear the other poll quote episodes we've made, chip in $30 or more right now and

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