Episode 10 | The Literature of Celebrity | Frank Sinatra has a Cold and Other Essays by Gay Talese
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When we think about literature, the last thing that comes to mind is the celebrity interview. Yet in the hands of the journalist Gay Talese, the lives of the famous are laid bear with all the insight, rhetorical verve, beauty, and tragedy of the best of short stories.
Join our wayward host as basks in the glory of the most minute and piercing descriptions ever written of the famous.
Frank Sinatra has a Cold on This American Life: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/574/sinatras-100th-birthday
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For those interested in Kim Yideum, here is a link to poetry reading she gave with her translator Jiyoon Lee. The audio quality is not great, but the reading is still pretty joyous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T78sITp2ebw
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