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| Podcast title | Obit Speaks
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| Description | Stories and interviews about life, death and transitions. Obit examines life through the lens of death. Whether it’s the loss of a person, a place, an object or an idea, life’s constant change presents an opportunity for examination, discussion and even celebration. Obit's award-winning writers bring you thoughtful essays and insightful stories. | |
| Updated | Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:21:07 -0500 | |
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1. Milton Rogovin: Helping Everyone See download (audio/mpeg, 9.34Mb) Description: Social Documentary photographer Milton Rogovin died on January 18 at the age of 101. Critic Jeff Weinstein speaks with Obit-Mag.com's Krishna Andavolu about Rogovin's legacy and the connection between vision and truth. |
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2. Remember That You Will Die, Winner's Reading download (audio/mpeg, 14.20Mb) Description: Highlights from the Remember That You Will Die Winner's Reading held at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City on July 30, 2010. Visit Obit-mag.com to read the full stories, which were selected from more than a hundred entries. |
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3. Larry Sultan: The Pleasures of Doubt download (audio/mpeg, 12.64Mb) Description: Obit Speaks featuring Krishna Andavolu speaking with writer Jeff Weinstein about his remembrance of photographer Larry Sultan who died in December 2009. Sultan, whose two major bodies of work helped birth conceptual photography, reveled in ambiguity. |
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4. Patrick Swayze: Hungry Eyes download (audio/mpeg, 4.21Mb) Description: Obit Speaks featuring Krishna Andavolu speaking with author Joyce Gemperlein about the allure of actor Patrick Swayze. While watching "Dirty Dancing" with her pre-adolescent daughter, Gemperlein notes, "I could see it dawning, however subliminally, on this young teenager that, as playwright George Bernard Shaw wrote, 'Dance is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.'" |
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5. Ted Kennedy: A Strong Finish download (audio/mpeg, 6.00Mb) Description: Obit Speaks featuring Krishna Andavolu speaking with Judy Bachrach about the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Bachrach explains that Kennedy strove to atone for the foolish and criminal acts of his younger life. |
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6. Ask Judy download (audio/mpeg, 9.44Mb) Description: Obit Speaks featuring Krishna Andavolu speaking with Obit-mag.com's "resident sage" Judy Bachrach about her weekly advice column for the terminally ill and their loved ones, Ask Judy. |
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7. Michael Schaffer: The Grim Reader download (audio/x-m4a, 13.12Mb) Description: Obit Speaks featuring Krishna Andavolu speaking with the author of Obit Magazine's weekly wrap-up of the art and science of obit writing, the Grim Reader. How do you wrap up a life? |
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8. Hidden Memorials download (audio/mpeg, 6.46Mb) Description: Photographer Lisa Ross travelled to the western Chinese province of Xinjiang to photograph Sufi burial mounds cut off to foreign visitors and Sufi practitioners alike. These structures and Ross' subtle and sensitive portraits occasion critic Jeff Weinstein to consider the form of photography as it relates to memory, legacy and social documentation. |
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9. Death of Silence download (audio/mpeg, 6.32Mb) Description: Of the many fronts of natural degradation, silence is perhaps the least recognized. But author John Grossmann finds that natural silence connects us to a pre-modern consciousness like no other natural feature of the earth. We would ignore its demise at our own peril. |
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10. When Death Came To Call download (audio/mpeg, 6.73Mb) Description: Obit Speaks featuring Krishna Andavolu speaking with Author Lesléa Newman who reads from her recent Obit-Mag.com article, "When Death Came to Call" |
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11. A Bitter Visitor download (audio/mpeg, 5.52Mb) Description: Obit Speaks featuring Krishna Andavolu speaking with Author Suzanne Strempek Shea who reads from her recent Obit-Mag.com article, "Bitter Visitor" |
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