A Working Life with Eileen Myles

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A Working Life with Eileen Myles

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May 16, 2023

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The line is intoned now as a sort of chapter heading in our literary-artistic history: Eileen Myles grew up in Boston/Cambridge and moved to New York in 1974 to become a poet. Chris with Eileen ...

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May 16, 2023

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Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics

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Humane Wartime: Try a simple riddle, about the time and climate we Americans are living in, today: Do we call it (a) wartime or (b) peacetime? Tense time, for sure, and there’s war in the headlines. But ... by Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The Historians’ Diagnosis: The conversation about a world in disarray feels urgent, elusive, etherized. Who will name this crisis and the roots of it: war, tribalism, maldistributed money, and pain, exceptionalism for rich people, maybe, for a rich ... by Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Polycrisis: Finally, there’s a word for it: the polycrisis, to describe the multiple messes we’re in. Our guest the historian Adam Tooze says it’s a polycrisis when old crises like war, weather, and disease are breeding ... by Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The New Right: The hatching of a New Right Republican party, under fire, is the substance of this radio hour. It was simpler in Gilbert and Sullivan when the song said: every boy and every gal that’s born ... by Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Thank You, Patrick Lydon: This is family talk in rural Ireland toward the end of an extraordinary life. My brother Patrick was the youngest of six, the saint among us and always the brightest company. Two winters ago he’d ... by Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus: There’s nobody quite like Sonny Rollins in the All-American sound and story of jazz. He was a teenager in Harlem in the 1940s when major players caught on to a rising star. Steadily over the ... by Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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A Radical American Life: Lydia Moland is reminding us that when present company in American public life comes up short, the ancestors of American democracy and spirit are lurking out there, in abundance and power to reset our judgment ... by Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Multipolarity: Our unipolar moment may be remembered as the United States’ turn as “king of the hill,” two decades or so between the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rocket rise of China’s economy. What ... by Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Taiwan, the World-Class Puzzle: Next on the global agenda comes Taiwan, the island off China once known as Formosa, meaning shapely, beautiful. Today it’s a puzzle with moving parts: a not-quite nation of 24 million people that has two ... by Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Origin Stories: This show was originally broadcast on December 5, 2019. Origin stories can be educated guesses, or leaps of collective imagination as to who we are, how we got to this point. The Big Bang is ... by Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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A Working Life with Eileen Myles: The line is intoned now as a sort of chapter heading in our literary-artistic history: Eileen Myles grew up in Boston/Cambridge and moved to New York in 1974 to become a poet. Chris with Eileen ... by Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Prudent Statecraft: John Quincy Adams was the model president in the early republic who declared that the United States “goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.” But “go abroad” we did, as the republic became ... by Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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How William James Can Save Your Life: William James, thinker and writer, was known widely in the nineteenth century as the adorable genius who invented American pragmatism. He was a brain scientist, student of war and religion, a philosopher who can feel ... by Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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It Ain’t Over: This week: a show from our archive from The Connection days. “It ain’t over till it’s over.” That’s Yogi Berra’s ageless line, in the title now of a summer hit movie just to prove Yogi ... by Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Happy Birthday to Us: We’re marking the 20th birthday of podcasting in conversation with Erica Heilman, a prize practitioner. Here we are with Erica in Peacham, Vermont, settled in 1776 in the Northeast Kingdom, up toward Canada. We seek ... by Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Henry at Work: It’s Labor Day week, 2023, and Henry David Thoreau is the heart of our conversation. It’s not with him, but it’s driven by his example: American thinking at its best on the matter of how ... by Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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A Working Life with Eileen Myles

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