Teaser - Jeff Sharlet Takes the Gaslit Nation Self-Care Q&A

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🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Sharlet is the author of the new book Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, and the New York Times best-selling author or editor of eight books, including The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, which led to the must-watch Netflix docuseries The Family. His writing and photography have appeared in many publications, including Vanity Fair, for which he is a contributing editor; the New York Times Magazine; GQ; Esquire; Harper's; and VQR, for which he is an editor at large. He currently teaches the art of writing as a professor at Dartmouth College. In this week's bonus episode, Sharlet takes the Gaslit Nation Self-Care Q&A to share what art, music, books, and documentaries and other things he recommends to help process the times we live in.

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0:00.0	Favorite vacation spot and why?
0:07.9	Favorite vacation spot and why?
0:11.9	Well, I'm going to be pretty boring.
0:17.9	New York City.
0:21.5	You know, I've been in New York City.
0:23.2	Really?
0:24.3	Yeah.
0:24.9	In fact, where I had such a good time last couple days,
0:28.3	I was staying in Brooklyn in a section of Flatbush called Little Haiti,
0:33.0	which I had never been to.
0:35.4	In fact, Easter morning, I'm not a Jew, a secular Jew,
0:39.5	but I went walking around in so many little storefront churches,
0:42.5	and I loved them.
0:43.6	And they're all, music is blasting out.
0:47.1	You know, none of them big enough for a congregation,
0:49.3	more than 30 people, the music in French, which I don't speak.
0:54.1	You see all this kind of creativity, these immigrants, people, the music in French, which I don't speak.
0:56.5	You see all this kind of creativity,
1:01.1	these immigrants, these folks who, for whom life isn't easy,
1:03.8	and this music is coming into the streets were filled with music,
1:05.8	and of course there's good food in that neighborhood.
1:09.2	And yeah, there's trash in the streets and everything else.
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