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Emily, John, David and Jamelle discuss the impacts and threats of wildfires and the climate crisis, apocalyptic election talk, and the four of them envision a new and improved post-pandemic work week.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s special show -- part of the Texas Tribune Festival!:
Abrahm Lustgarten for The New York Times Magazine: “The Great Climate Migration”
Galen Durke for FiveThirtyEight “The Challenges Of Holding An Election During A Pandemic”
Jamelle Bouie for The New York Times: “Trump’s Perverse Campaign Strategy”
Thomas B. Edsall for The New York Times: “Whose America Is It?”
Isaac Stanley-Becker for The Washington Post: “Pro-Trump Youth Group Enlists Teens in Secretive Campaign Likened to a ‘troll farm,’ Prompting Rebuke by Facebook and Twitter”
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamont
Here are the week cocktail chatters for this week:
Emily: Janet Malcolm for The New York Review of Books: “A Second Chance”
John: @AmeliaFrappolli’s, twitter thread about the mad hatter who shot John Wilkes Booth, Boston Corbett, as chronicled in Legends and Lies: Great Mysteries of the American West by Dale L. Walker.
Jamelle: Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking by Toni Tipton-Martin; The Mandalorian, Season 2
David: The Oddly Satisfying channel on YouTube.
Listener chatter from Janet Green @janetcetera: Jonathan Ore and Kevin Ball for CBC: “Paddle of the Century”
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