The Quarantine Tapes

In Episode 022 we hear from William B. Feldman, M.D., D.Phil. a pulmonary and critical fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he has helped develop hospital guidelines around Crisis Standards of Care and has spent time working with patients in the ICU with COVID-19.

Inspiring words from LA Native and award winning journalist and essayist -Lynell George. Lynell and Paul discuss a return to more organic communications e.g. handwritten notes and phone calls, the postal system (USPS), and the effects of COVID-19 on the city of Los Angeles.

Novelist Min Jin Lee - author of “Free Food For Millionaires” and “Pachinko” speaks with Paul in Epsiode 20 of The Quarantine Tapes.

LA Tenants Union co-founder Tracy Rosenthal speaks with Paul about the work they do to fight for housing justice and against the forces of gentrification as well as displacement.

Edwidge Danticat, author of “Breath, Eyes, Memory” and “Everything Inside” converses with Paul about the fragility of life and proximity of death in episode 018 of The Quarantine Tapes.

Paul hears from award winning Australian artist Lynette Wallworth whose immersive video installations and film works reflect on the connections between people and the natural world.

Today Paul speaks with Sarah Williams, co-founder and executive director of Los Angeles Based Intersectional Arts Organization “Women's Center for Creative Work”. The WCCW is a dynamic community space which holds numerous events and artist in residency programs, a publishing press as well as a co-working space. It is a plaform that actively represents the work of women and non-binary artists.

Rosanne Cash, singer, songwriter, author and daughter of Johnny Cash, speaks very openly on today's episode of the grief she is experiencing following the death of some of her closest friends, including songwriter John Prine who passed on Tuesday due to complications from Covid -19. She speaks of kindness to oneself and others during this difficult time. The episode concludes with a moving Acapella of Rosanne Cash’s “7th Avenue” sung over the phone for all of us to enjoy.

“They are 500,000 employees nationwide, 800k employees worldwide. God forbid we all become carriers of COVID 19. This virus spreads to 2 1/2 people - do the math. That is a very scary situation. We are talking about ending humanity right here. People need to wake up. Really do.”

“There is a virtue in slowness that we have lost”. Today Paul speaks with Julian Sands, a British actor best known for his work in film, TV and radio. Due to the nature of his vocation Julian often prepares for weeks and months at home, what he calls his “slow period” or “slow time”. He compares this to the “slow movement” argued for by poets Keats & Shelley who were alarmed by the industrial revolution over 200 years ago. Slow Food was born in the 1990s in Northern Italy with the development of the slow food supply & consumption. Julian addresses our need for “slowtime” - “slow reading, slow thinking”.