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Culture Gabfest: Into the Woods

2021/12/1
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This week, Steve and Dana are joined by senior managing producer of Slate podcasts and co-host of Slate’s Working podcast, **June Thomas. First, the panel discusses the Princess Diana biopic Spencer. Dana tracked Kristen Stewart’s career) up to this Oscar vehicle film. Next, the panel gets a taste of the new "meet stew" of a show, Yellowjackets. Finally, the panel is joined by author and co-host of Slate’s *Working *podcast Isaac Butler to remember the late, great Stephen Sondheim).

In Slate Plus, the panel discusses their processes for writing a book.

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Endorsements

**Dana: **Susan Orlean reading her own audiobook of her non-fiction novel Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend) about the famous Hollywood star...who also happens to be a German Shepherd.  

**June: **The exhibit at the New York Historical Society titled “‘Turn Every Page’: Inside the Robert A. Caro Archive.”)

**Steve: *Continuing his Rachel Cusk endorsement with his most recently read novel of hers, *Transit).

Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Nadira Goffe.

Outro music is "Any Other Way" by Particle House

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