Episode 290 Featuring Jay Parini- Poet, Novelist, Biographer, Screenwriter, and Critic

"Slouching Toward Facisim..." We have for your listening pleasure Episode 290 of "Troubadours and Raconteurs with E.W. Conundrum Demure." Episode 290 features a grand conversation with Poet, Novelist, Biographer, Screenwriter,and Critic the great Jay Parini. Mr. Parini's acclaimed novel The Last Station – was made into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer. Jay talks with us from his office at Middlebury College in Vermont. We discuss Me Too, Monster Artists, Seperating an Artist's Work from Their Personal Life, Meeting Gore Vidal, His Upcoming Film Starring Kevin Spacey as Gore Vidal, Can't Trust Republicans with the Economy, Slouching Toward Facism, Journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Books as a Ladder to Heaven, Grandma Could've Beat Trump... This Episode also includes an EW Essay titled "Luxury." We have another wonderful essay from our Associate Producer Dr. Michael Pavese ( aka Uncle Cesare) Titled "Rotogravure."We have a poem called "Gazoontight." Our music this go round is provided by these wonderful artists: Django Reinhardt, Stephan Grapelli, the Clash, Amos Lee, Garland Jeffreys, Bob Dorough, Terry Morel, Jack Sheldon, Santana, Branford Marsalis and Terrence Blanchard. Commercial Free, Small Batch Radio Crafted In the Moosic Mountains of Pennsylvania... Heard All Over The World. Tell your Friends and Neighbors...