The Double Life, Once More
The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
A couple weeks ago in this space, I published an autobiographical sketch called “The Double Life.” It elicited such a strong reaction from readers that I wanted to revisit it, so I recorded an audio version and Nikita Petrov, my creative director, created a video feature to go along with it. I plan to do more of these audio/video pieces in the future, mostly for subscribers. Let me know what you think of this new feature in the comments!
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| 0:00.0 | Okay guys I am I am beginning to record now this is gonna be one of the audio |
| 0:08.0 | file contributions to the content at the newsletter so I'll I'll begin I'm |
| 0:16.7 | going to read the post the double life by Glenn Lowry the double life in |
| 0:24.8 | autobiographical sketch as many of you know I'm in the process of writing a |
| 0:30.5 | memoir it's currently entitled The Enemy Within I've had to work through a lot |
| 0:36.2 | of memories I've had to find my way back to incidents and images from the past |
| 0:40.8 | some of them pleasant some of them disturbing it's not an easy task in fact |
| 0:46.8 | it's messy business memories aren't like dogs they don't necessarily come when |
| 0:52.5 | you call them so when trying to organize my thoughts I've done a lot of |
| 0:56.2 | preparatory note-taking and writing stuff that may not end up in the memoir at |
| 1:01.0 | least not in its present form but that serves as a tool to help excavate old |
| 1:05.4 | thoughts and feelings and make something more coherent out of them so I am |
| 1:11.0 | going to share some notes with you a sketch of my early life the south side |
| 1:14.8 | million which I grew up in a bit about my early academic success fans of the |
| 1:20.0 | blin show will find the broad outlines familiar but I include more detail here |
| 1:24.4 | than I have in the past some of it beautiful some of it ugly in writing this |
| 1:28.6 | memoir I have tried to be as honest as I can about where I came from and what |
| 1:32.6 | led me to where I am not everything I experienced was good not everything I did |
| 1:38.6 | was admirable but for the book to be worth anything it has to be truth so here |
| 1:45.8 | goes the Chicago of my youth exuded beauty and brilliance amidst compromised |
| 1:53.5 | standards and awful pain I was born to work in class African-American parents |
| 1:58.2 | early in the post-war baby boom and attended public schools five different |
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