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May 11, 2020 59 min

Reading The Topeka School (with Christopher Piatt)

from Public Intellectual Hosted by Jessa Crispin

Ben Lerner's The Topeka School was recently shortlisted for the Pulitzer, and critics have been raving about its insight into Trump Country. But... how good is it? Christopher Piatt and Jessa, two former small town, rural Kansans, read the Topeka School and discuss all of its hot takes on red state culture, its shallow research on the deep weirdness of Kansas, and why it is no longer expected for Kansans to be the audience, let alone the creators, of art these days. http://patreon.com/publicintellectual http://jessacrispin.com

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