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Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Kurt Andersen talks with author N.K. Jemisin about writing, politics, and her new book “How Long 'til Black Future Month?” Our latest American Icons segment is about “Cross Road Blues,” the song that helped to posthumously popularize — and mythologize — Robert Johnson. And how “This Is Spinal Tap,” which opened 35 years ago this week, helped create the template for other hilarious mockumentaries.

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0:00.0	from PRX
0:03.4	This is Studio 360.
0:10.2	I'm Kurt Annes.
0:10.9	And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
0:13.3	This first level of garden.
0:14.6	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
0:16.5	I like to have the roasted chicken base.
0:18.1	Very well done.
0:19.3	Editing is all about timing.
0:23.4	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
0:25.4	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
0:27.5	Studio 360.
0:29.0	It's Kurt Anderson.
0:44.1	If I've managed to take the reader out of their existing headspace into another world, into another person's life, and then return them safely home, then I've done my job.
0:48.7	N.K. Jemison is an extremely talented storyteller.
0:52.3	My job is to entertain. My job is to transport. Her best-selling fantasy series,
0:54.8	the Broken Earth Trilogy,
0:56.3	won the last three Hugo Awards for Best Novel,
1:00.3	three in a row, which was unprecedented.
1:03.6	Now she's got a new collection of short fiction
1:06.0	called How Long Tell Black Future Month.
1:09.5	And here she is reading from one of the stories in that new book.
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