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Jul 17, 2018 37 min

Ep. 130: Firsthand

from It's Pretty OK

Pierce just finished reading Please Kill Me, an oral history of the meteoric rise and fall of punk rock in the 1970s in New York and London. This week, he and Sean are talking about oral histories. Why are they so effective as a storytelling device? And why don't we see more of them? MUSIC "Midway" - Bad Bad Hats ADDITIONAL MATERIAL Meet Me in the Bathroom Is the First Great History of New York’s 21st Century Rock Scene (SPIN) Blue Chips:An oral history of Shaq, Penny, and the Orlando Magic’s lost NBA dynasty (Grantland) The Greatest Paper That Ever Died (Grantland)

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