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What Laurie Anderson Lost

How the multimedia artist bounced back from losing Lou Reed—and so much more.

Laurie Anderson performing in 1999.

Frank Micelotta. Courtesy of Rizzoli USA

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Kurt Andersen talks with performer and artist Laurie Anderson about her long career and her new book, All the Things I Lost in the Flood, and new album, Landfall. Jess Thom used to be kind of in denial about having Tourette’s syndrome, but then she decided to turn her tics into inspiration for artists. And an oral history of the Belly Room, which the Comedy Store opened in the 1970s so female comics like Sandra Bernhard could have a room of their own.

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