Reading The Topeka School (with Christopher Piatt)

Update: 2020-05-11

Description

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

Comments

In Channel

No Modernism without Lesbians, with Dianna Souhami

2021-09-2733:26

FBoy Island is Incel Culture, with Cameron Steele

2021-08-2359:42

When Even the Moon is Gender Critical: Neo-Pagans, Goddess Culture, and terfs with Ana Valens

2021-08-1654:06

Who Gets to Tell Your Story, with Cameron Steele

2021-08-0901:02:34

It Never Came Home: The Euros and Copa America, with Nicolás R Melo

2021-07-2646:58

The Final Girlboss, with Cameron Steele

2021-07-1901:10:35

All About Adichie, with Cameron Steele

2021-07-0559:52

We Don't Deserve St. Vincent, with Zach Toman

2021-06-2101:22:28

Re-Sentimentalizing the Family, with Cameron Steele

2021-06-1401:04:55

Reading The Topeka School (with Christopher Piatt)

2020-05-1159:26

No NYTimes There Won't Be a Rona Baby Boom (with Maxine Eichner)

2020-05-0445:46

Tiger King, A Morality Play (with Eileen G'Sell)

2020-04-2701:00:02

Red State Culture (with Jason Pine)

2020-04-2038:38

The Feminist Response (with Breanne Fahs)

2020-04-0648:13

Deaths of Despair, with Anne Case

2020-04-0151:45

How is Your Self-Isolation Going (with Jim Behrle)

2020-03-2356:50

Pete Buttigieg is from the Suburbs (with Joe Kennedy)

2020-03-1650:43

Bonus Episode: Sinead O'Connor is the Kassandra of Our Time, with Margaret Howie

2020-03-1245:59

Twilight Moms and the Indignity of Female Desire (with Jennifer Hodgson)

2020-03-0901:08:14

Weinstein the Monster (with JoAnn Wypijewski)

2020-03-0201:16:57

00:00

Reading The Topeka School (with Christopher Piatt)

#box-pro-ellipsis-175722955971211{-webkit-line-clamp:2;}Reading The Topeka School (with Christopher Piatt)

Reading The Topeka School (with Christopher Piatt)

Jessa Crispin

Reading The Topeka School (with Christopher Piatt)