‘The Talented Mr. Ripley,’ perfumer Tanwi Nandini Islam, and say “moist,” everybody!

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

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4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Our latest American Icons feature explores Patricia Highsmith’s series that began with “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” and how Tom Ripley fits into an American tradition of protagonists struggling with identity and morality. Kurt Andersen visits perfumer Tanwi Nandini Islam as she concocts a fragrance based on Toni Morrison’s “Beloved.” And a favorite from our Guilty Pleasures series: Writer Sadie Stein on the word that so many find icky but that she really likes: “moist.”

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0:00.0	From PRX.
0:06.4	Today on Studio 360,
0:08.1	Dickie is that kind of helplessly,
0:13.3	beautiful, destructive boy that you fall in love with
0:19.0	before you realize you shouldn't. The longing for status, beauty, and comfort turns deadly.
0:25.0	And when Ripley lashes out at him,
0:27.0	it's not that you want him to die,
0:28.6	but you're ready for some kind of justice.
0:31.1	Twisted reinvention in Patricia Highsmith's Ripley series,
0:34.6	our next American icon.
0:37.6	Plus, there are so many books kind of obsessed with fragrance and scent.
0:43.5	So, how about are fragrance obsessed with a book?
0:46.7	As writers, we're always grappling with, like, is this dead and pointless?
0:50.1	A novelist and perfumer creates a scent for us based on Tony Morrison's masterpiece Beloved.
0:55.5	So to me, this is like a heightened form of fan fiction.
0:58.6	That's ahead on Studio 360 right after this.
1:06.4	This is Studio 360.
1:10.3	I'm Kurt Aniston, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
1:13.3	This first level of garden.
1:14.7	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
1:16.6	I like to have the roasted chicken base.
1:18.3	Very well done.
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