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Working: Writers Rob Walker and Joshua Glenn on Their Longtime Partnership

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Music, Tv & Film, Arts

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week, host June Thomas talks to writers Rob Walker and Joshua Glenn, whose Significant Objects project explores how and why physical items can take on meaning and value. In the interview, Rob and Joshua talk about how their partnership was born and explain why they’re such compatible collaborators. They also discuss their proclivity for balancing lots of projects, and Joshua explains something he calls the “virtuous circle of procrastination.”  After the interview, June and co-host Karen Han share lessons they’ve learned about collaborating on creative projects.  And here’s June’s contribution to Rob and Joshua’s “Project:Object.” https://www.hilobrow.com/2020/05/04/movie-objects-12/ Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675.  Podcast production by Cameron Drews.  If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Big Mood, Little Mood—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus. -- Thanks to Atlassian Work Check Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:42.0

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0:57.0

So the key criteria becomes who can do a good job with this and make this a thing that's worth. It's a hobby almost.

1:06.0

I don't like that word, but I said almost.

1:13.0

Welcome back to working. I'm your host, Karen Hahn.

1:16.0

And I'm your other host, June Thomas.

1:18.0

Hi, June. How are you?

1:20.0

I am swell. Thank you. The movers took most of our stuff away a couple of days ago.

1:25.0

Oh, wow.

1:26.0

So I'm recording from an empty echoey apartment. In other words, thoughts and prayers to our producer Cameron.

1:34.0

I do want to say, again, this is an audio medium and not a visual medium, but as we are on the Zoom call,

1:40.0

I'm looking at June in the box of the Zoom window, but then also inside another box in an attempt to contain the echo, which is quite funny.

1:50.0

But anyway, so who did you talk to this week? Whose voices were we hearing?

1:54.0

So I spoke with Rob Walker. That was his voice that we heard at the top of the show. And Joshua Glenn.

2:01.0

Rob is a journalist. He actually worked for Slate many years ago.

2:06.0

And Josh earns his living as a consulting semi-attition.

2:11.0

But I wanted to talk to them because they often collaborate on what I hope they wouldn't be insulted to hear me call RT projects.

2:20.0

In many of them, they approach a bunch of writers and ask them to compose a short essay, usually as little as 500 words, about a particular type of object.

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