Welcome to Season Four of The Critic and Her Publics: The Art of the Interview. This season, big Merve Emre talks with nonrecreational interviewers of each kinds astir however they get the reply they’re looking for, what makes a bully question, however bash you perceive for what’s unsaid, and however hard bash you person to propulsion idiosyncratic earlier they accidental thing new?
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From the episode: “Rachel Syme has interviewed each the expansive dames of New York and Los Angeles: she’s had Cosmos with Carol Burnett, she’s accompanied Sarah Jessica Parker to the ballet, she’s shopped with Parker Posey astatine Rachel Comey, she’s Skyped with Patti LuPone and gabbed with Barbra Streisand connected her landline. At a clip erstwhile the glossy illustration feels hopelessly compromised, Rachel uses her heavy cognition of musicals, fashion, and aged Hollywood to enactment nutrient connected the bones of fame and fortune—and Rachel loves a bully yarn. Our speech was afloat of behind-the-scenes stories, showing however an interrogation tin alteration a specified personage into an icon.”
For a full transcript, caput implicit to the New York Review of Books.
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