What Laurie Anderson lost

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Kurt Andersen talks with performer and artist Laurie Anderson about her long career and her new book, “All the Things I Lost in the Flood,” and new album, “Landfall.” Jess Thom used to be kind of in denial about having Tourette syndrome, but then she decided to turn her tics into inspiration for artists. And an oral history of the the Belly Room, which the Comedy Store opened in the 1970s so female comics like Sandra Bernhard could have a room of their own.

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0:00.0	From PRX
0:03.4	This is Studio 360.
0:09.8	I'm Kurt Anand.
0:10.6	And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
0:12.9	This first level of garden.
0:14.2	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
0:16.1	I like to have the roasted chicken base.
0:17.7	Very well done.
0:18.9	Editing is all about timing.
0:20.6	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
0:23.2	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
0:25.6	Studio 360.
0:27.6	It's good.
0:28.2	Anderson.
0:31.6	When Sandy slammed into New York City last night, all expectations were shattered.
0:36.2	There was more water moving with more force
0:38.3	and more directions than was ever foreseen. This is just unbelievable. We're downtown by the towers.
0:44.3	The incredible record-setting 14-foot storm surge hit like a liquid fist.
0:48.3	When Hurricane Sandy hit New York City in 2012, it flooded lots of buildings, including the one where the artist and
0:56.1	performer Laurie Anderson lived with her husband, Lou Reed. After that storm, she went down to
1:01.8	their basement to find her archives of all her work pretty much destroyed.
1:08.1	All the things had carefully saved all my life, becoming nothing but junk.
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