This Is Your Mixtape

28. Future Nostalgia. [Dan Kois.]


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Dan Kois is an editor at Slate and a

contributing writer to the New York Times magazine. He's the author of Facing
Future, a book in the 33⅓ series of music criticism,
and the co-author (with Isaac Butler) of The World Only Spins
Forward, an oral history of the play Angels in
America, a winner of a Stonewall Book Honor from the ALA. His memoir of
parenting around the world, How to Be a Family,
will be published in September 2019 by Little, Brown.

Dan and Michael talk about mixtape evangelism, the discomfort of growth,

celebrating difference, first concerts, and creating memories.

Dan’s Five Songs.
  • A Perfect Circle [MTV
  • Unplugged] by R.E.M.
  • Strange Loop
  • by Liz Phair.
  • Deeper Into Movies by
  • Yo La Tengo.
  • Follow Your Arrow by
  • Kacey Musgraves.
  • Green Light by Lorde.
  • Show Notes.

    How to Be a Family. Dan’s book about his family’s

    year-long trip around the world.

    Facing Future. Dan’s 33⅓ book about Israel

    Kamakawiwo’ole.

    The World Only Spins Forward. Dan's book with Isaac

    Butler about Angels in America.

    R.E.M. vs. U2. Dan’s early essay about the rivalry he perceived between U2

    and R.E.M.

    Slate Podcast Mom and Dad are

    Fighting.

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