Shadows in the Sunshine State
Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
PRX
4.6 • 675 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Fiction, fantasy and reality in the Sunshine State. Lauren Groff talks about writing — and surviving — in Florida. The writer Carl Hiaasen tells Kurt Andersen how he turns sleaze into sunshine noir. In Celebration, Florida, fantasy meets reality. How the Florida wilderness helped create Jeff VanderMeer’s apocalyptic landscape. And Judy Blume tours her old stomping grounds in Miami Beach.
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| 0:00.0 | From PRX |
| 0:03.4 | This is Studio 360. |
| 0:09.8 | I'm Karenis. |
| 0:10.6 | And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. |
| 0:12.9 | This first level of gardens. |
| 0:14.2 | This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden. |
| 0:16.1 | I like to have the roasted chicken base. |
| 0:17.7 | Very well done. |
| 0:18.9 | Editing is all about timing. |
| 0:20.6 | I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject. |
| 0:23.2 | You must get sick of your own voice, right? |
| 0:25.5 | Studio 360. |
| 0:27.6 | It's good. |
| 0:28.2 | Anderson. |
| 0:31.3 | About a century ago, the modern promotional idea of Florida was invented. |
| 0:40.1 | The permanent, sunny vacation on the beach, |
| 0:46.3 | the south of France, tropical, razzle-dazzle, art deco fantasies, followed by the Disney World, Miami Vice, Mara Lago, Art Basel fantasies. But there is also, as everywhere, poverty and struggle, depicted beautifully in a couple |
| 0:57.8 | of excellent recent films. There was The Florida Project, which follows a few exuberant |
| 1:03.4 | off-the-leash kids who live in a candy-colored low-rent motel in the shadow of Disney World. |
| 1:10.6 | Your kid killed my night. I wanted to watch the ballgame. |
| 1:13.3 | You're going to pay me for three hours that I got to work later? |
| 1:16.8 | Hey guys, pay the man for his three hours. |
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