The Culture Gabfest, “Diving Into the Wreck” Edition
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Posted Wednesday, April 4, 2012, at 10:53 AM ET
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In this week's Gabfest, our critics are joined by Slate’s Meghan O’Rourke to discuss the poetry and politics of the late Adrienne Rich. Next, they are joined by Jessica Grose to discuss her latest Slate article tracing two mysterious deaths in Yellowstone National Park. Finally, Meghan O’Rourke sticks around to gab about Benedict Carey’s piece in the New York Times, “Where Have All the Neurotics Gone?”
Here are some links to the things we discussed this week:
Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born and Diving Into the Wreck.
Slate’s Meghan O’Rourke on the poems and politics of Adrienne Rich.
Jessica Grose’s piece in Slate on grizzly bear attacks.
The official website of Yellowstone National Park.
Benedict Carey’s article “Where Have All the Neurotics Gone” in the New York Times.
The Culture Gabfest weekly endorsements:
Dana’s pick: Dog Ear’s Book Barn near the border of Bennington, Vt. and Babette Deutsch's Poetry Handbook
Meghan’s pick: Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born
Stephen’s pick: The young adult book Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Famer and Freeman Dyson’s review of Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons and Alternative Theories of Everything in the New York Review of Books
Outro: The Cure’s “Charlotte Sometimes”
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Jessica Grose is the author of the novel Sad Desk Salad, co-author of Love-Mom, and a regular Slate contributor.
Stephen Metcalf is Slate's critic at large. He is working on a book about the 1980s.
Meghan O'Rourke is Slate's culture critic and an advisory editor. She was previously an editor at The New Yorker. The Long Goodbye, a memoir about her mother's death, is now out in paperback.
Dana Stevens is Slate's movie critic. Email her at slatemovies@gmail.com or follow her on Twitter.