HOW WE LIVE NOW

By Douglas Kennedy, Matthew D'Abate

Douglas Kennedy and Matthew D'Abate discuss current artistic, cultural, and news-worthy trends in these weekly micro-discussions.... more

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March 10, 2019 S. 2 EP. 6 MISSING THE BOHEMIAN
No one can argue that most of the western world has befallen to corporate
and monocultural tastes; opting for efficiency over aesthetic, and the
bottom line over creative expansion. There is a general lack of care and
concern that the artist of our cities are being priced out at a rampant
rate. What will these centers of artistic energy do when they only left
with chain stores, mini-malls, and gas stations? Cinemas are closing
rapidly – book stores are nearly extinct. Places of cultural interest are
empty. What’s next for the culture of art in the 21st century?
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February 24, 2019 S. 2 EP. 5 THE FUTURE IS LITERARY
Everybody knows that the world of the literary novel has been significantly
diminished. Since the advent of the Internet, the colossal power of Amazon,
and the almost daily shuttering of your local independent bookstore,
reading levels are at an all-time low. According to a new study by the
National Endowment of the Arts, the percentage of adults who read books
fell to 52 percent in 2017, compared with 54 percent in 2012 and 56 percent
in 2002. The percentage of adults reading fiction has dropped from 45
percent in 2012 to 41 percent in 2017.
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February 17, 2019 S. 2 EP. 4 "MY, HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED"
This week we’re discussing the seismic tremors and tectonic shifts coursing
through our culture in the last century – so much so that any knowledgeable
person with any historic interest can hardly catch their breath.
As the great Lenny Bruce once said: “The 'what should be' never did exist,
but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,'
there is only what is.”
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February 10, 2019 S. 2 EP. 3 THE POLITICAL MIND
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said: “There comes a time when one must
take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must
take it because conscience tells him it is right.” We take this Sunday to
discuss the political mind.
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February 03, 2019 S.2 EP.2 INSIDE THE GREAT WIDE OPEN
This week we’re discussing the ritualistic habits and ornamental traditions
of the literary life. Every writer has a specific pattern to which they
construction their literary tomes, and Douglas Kennedy is no different.
Some hide from the world. Some seek inspiration through travel. Kennedy
found himself immersed in “The Great Wide Open” a novel that to nearly
three years to hit the book shelves. I got a chance to sit down with
Douglas Kennedy in Manhattan to ask him how this novel came to fruition.
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January 27, 2019 S.2 EP. 1 HOW WE LIVE NOW
Just in the last two months – America has experienced a great shift to the
left. For the last two years, the Republican House and Senate have
entrenched our culture in retrograde policies and astoundingly isolationist
behavior. From the border wall, to the travel ban, to the hostile Grand
Guignol theatrics of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation proceedings, the
country is more divided than ever.
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October 07, 2018 EP. 60 THEMES INSIDE
All works of literature possess a river of thematic concern flowing beneath
the written word. Some philosophers have expounded that authors themselves
work to uncover and discover their own well-hidden secrets and foibles
layered deep within the narrative structure of their work.
The writer Alexei Panshin writes: “A book isn't a single, static thing with
one unarguable meaning. Each reader who comes to it brings his own special
knowledge, habits and attitudes. Each reader reads a different book. Each
reader imagines a different story.”
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September 29, 2018 EP. 59 HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL PT. 2
This week, we’re continuing our two-part series titled, aptly, How To Write
Novel. Brave title I know. But I’d put my good money on listening to those
that have crossed that literary line. To try is noble. To do it once is
heroic. To sustain a career – That’s something I’ll turn over to someone
who has published over 21 books during the length of their career. Our
dialogue with Douglas Kennedy continues.
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September 16, 2018 EP. 58 HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL PT. 1
The Pulitzer Prize winning author Eudora Welty wrote this about the craft
of a novel: “The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists,
not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished
work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The
essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw material; it is
not even of the same family of things. The novel is something that never
was before and will not be again.”
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August 30, 2018 EP. 57 THE FRAGILITY
The great Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz wrote: “The partition separating life
from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism
suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human
shape, lasts a moment and then scatters.”
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The podcast currently has 76 episodes available.