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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August 25, 2018 EP. 56 THE COMPLEXITIES OF THE HEART
The famed psychologist Esther Perel wrote this about modern relationships:
“Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a
sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time, we expect
our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and
sexually fulfilling. Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble
under the weight of it all?”
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August 18, 2018 EP. 55 ON THE NOTION OF VENGEANCE
No one with any modicum of awareness has escaped the feeling of anger or
desire for vengeance against some form of perceived slight or insult. One
can even argue that to be a rational, present human being, engaged in any
form of political, social, or familial conversation – will find themselves
steamed with some form of negative emotion – one that we’ll only confess to
our most intimate of partners.
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August 12, 2018 EP. 54 AND SO LITTLE TIME...
This week I turned our dialogue to a much more sensitive topic – a personal
one. Just at the time of this interview, Douglas Kennedy got word that
there was one less author in the world. The news was sudden, though, not
unexpected. This author, the acclaimed novelist and intellectual Philip
Kerr, passed away in March of 2018. An esteemed author of 41 novels, Kerr
was an astute observer of the human condition and a lock-tight fictional
historian – capturing time and place as no other author of his time could.
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July 28, 2018 EP. 53 THE STATE OF THE UNION
Defying her radically political parents, Hannah determines that a life with
a mundane but sturdy husband with a good job in a small New England town is
her life’s future. But much like Madame Bovary, who is the behind the
scenes inspiration for State of the Union, Hannah finds herself embroiled
in an affair – and one that she quickly sweeps under the rug. Kennedy
explains.
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July 21, 2018 EP. 52 WHAT IS YOUR ARGUMENT?
No one will openly tell you how absolutely difficult it is to stay not only
relevant in our ever-changing climate – but how to stay careered, and
constantly producing interesting and creative works during a lifetime. Most
of these so-called job skills can’t be learned in a classroom or seminar –
they must be earned by hard work and a special kind of dedication to the
craft. Douglas Kennedy and I both share an affinity for this subject – each
of us sharing a history of facing rejection and dealing with the critics.
This in fact goes back to Kennedy’s early days as a writer, and trying,
unsuccessfully, to impress some members of the supposed elite at his
University’s literary journal.
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July 14, 2018 EP. 51 THE IMPORTANCE OF PLACE
During my most recent conversation with Douglas Kennedy, I read to him a
fascinating little quote by the writer Douglas Coupland that I thought
Kennedy might find interesting. He wrote: “We are all of us born with a
letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be
allowed to read it before we die.” This was his response.
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July 07, 2018 EP. 50 A CINEMATIC CHARM
I got a chance to sit down with Douglas Kennedy at his home in the city of
Paris to discuss our mutual love of the silver screen. We talked about the
current state of cinema, the blasé repetition of comic books films and the
disastrous remakes. We arrived at the topic of film criticism, and Douglas
reminded me that he writes a column for the journal “America”, edited by
Francois Busnel, of film criticism.
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July 01, 2018 EP. 49 THE RADIO DAYS
Everyone starts somewhere. And often times, the place we begin set us on a
path that leads to the unknown future – and sometimes, if we’re lucky, to
the career we were always meant to achieve.
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June 15, 2018 EP. 48 OUR CURRENT REVOLUTION
These days social media binds us together in a new and collusive way – we
can vent and receive the vents of anyone digitally connected in our bubble.
And each bubble has its own narrative – distinct and clear. The cultural
mood is one of divisiveness and disruption. It is safe to say that we are
living in perilous times – or at least, if not any more perilous than other
epochs in history – these days seems as if there is an urgency of
perilousness.
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June 07, 2018 EP. 47 THE INSIDE INFORMATION
It's the question of the day: How do you become a writer in our modern
world? Young artists face extraordinary competition not only within their
own artistic fields, but also with a society that is on the brink of
radical financial inequality, rising rents, and little to no job security.
How in the world is anyone going to create anything meaningful under these
conditions?
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The podcast currently has 76 episodes available.