A Playwright's Final Act. I'm Rebecca Leib. I'm Jason Horton, and this is Ghost Town. People put away in mausoleums above the ground, which is a rather grisly idea.

Personally, I tend to be buried at sea.

The works of Tennessee Williams are iconic. From page to screen titles like A Cat on

a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Name Desire, and the Glass Menagerie are staples in

modern literature and the silver screen.

Tennessee Williams was celebrated, but his personal life in his later years were anything but.

We'll talk about the strange death of Tennessee Williams.

Yeah.

Something I did not know and you figured it was something that I wouldn't know.

I don't know why maybe because I'm just always interested in strange things in general and I was like wow this is a pretty pretty interesting one and and but really sad before it gets there.

Yeah I think like what we know about Tennessee Williams is like obviously

accomplished writer and playwright I think there's's also the southern like you know drinking

the alcoholism the kind of depression around that at southern gothic

tormented you know artist trope certainly works with his story. But beyond that, I don't know much about him or his death.

And you wonder would the art be the same if it were not for that? It's really hard to say.

Now that that makes it better or worse or I'm kind of judging that process but you wonder like,

would the thing that we are celebrating the person for be the same if they

didn't have that and a lot of really sad and tormented people publicly or privately make great stuff and also bad stuff and then people that have pretty chill existences also put out great stuff and also very boring stuff.

Totally it's like a conversation I had a lot in art grad school where it's like can you

separate the person from the art and it's really difficult it's really complicated

and you kind of get to draw the line. You don't have to do that with us because there is no art to

separate. Just our shitty personalities. Yeah, can we separate our bad personalities for our less bad

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