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This week on Slate Plus, Julia, Dana, Steve, and Jody Rosen discuss which songs from the 1990s onward will make it into the American Songbook.
On this week’s Slate Culture Gabfest, the gabbers interview Catastrophe star Rob Delaney about the new season of the show. What does his collaborative process with Sharon Horgan look like? Next up, Gay Talese’s comments at a Boston University journalism conference and his new piece in the New Yorker caused a major stir last week. Should we be outraged by his remarks and this new work? Finally, Jody Rosen joins to pay tribute to country music hero Merle Haggard. What made Haggard one of country’s brightest lights?
Links to some of the things we discussed this week follow:
- Season 2 of Catastrophe
- “The Voyeur’s Motel,” Gay Talese’s recent article in the New Yorker
- An article from Gay Talese’s former teaching assistant in the Washington Post
- The Rewire article that quoted Nikole Hannah-Jones
- “If We Make It Through December” by Merle Haggard
- “Mama Tried” by Merle Haggard
- “Okie From Muskogee” by Merle Haggard
- “Are the Good Times Really Over” by Merle Haggard
- “The Bumper of My S.U.V.” by Chely Wright
- Jody’s brief Slate review of the song “The Bumper of My S.U.V.”
- “Kern River” by Merle Haggard
- Merle Haggard doing impressions on The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
- Down to the Sea in Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men by Horatio Clare
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Endorsements:
Dana: Charles Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby read by Simon Vance on Audible.com
Julia: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Jody: The essay “Why I Write” written and read by Horatio Clare
Steve: The Tiffany Transcriptions by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys and the article “Much Ado About Nothing” by S.L. Price in Vanity Fair
Outro: “Roly Poly” by Bob Wills
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