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Host Leon Neyfakh transports listeners into the day-to-day reality of our country's most pivotal historical events, bringing to life the forgotten twists and turns of the past while shedding light on the present.
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From Death of an Artist: The Train Has Left the Station (opens the original)
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Here's episode 3 of Leon's new series, Death of an Artist . There's still 3 more episodes to go. Find the rest of Death of an Artist wherever you get podcasts and binge the full season now by subscribing to Pushkin+ on the Apple Podcasts show page or at pushkin.fm/plus . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
From Death of an Artist: It’s Lonely Without You, Friends (opens the original)
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Here's episode 2 of Leon's new series, Death of an Artist , a story about the joint suicide of a beloved children’s book author and her photographer husband that left behind an uneasy fellowship of friends and family caught between grief, confusion, anger, and envy. Michael and Petra Mathers left their house and the logistics of their afterlife to their friend Patty—unbeknownst to Patty’s sister Virginia, who considered herself one of Michael and Petra’s best friends. Patty and Virginia have dif
Death of an Artist: New from Leon Neyfakh (opens the original)
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Leon here bringing you a preview of a new series of mine, Death of an Artist . Over the next few weeks, I'll be sharing a few episodes with you right here on the Fiasco feed. In February 2024, celebrated children’s book author and illustrator Petra Mathers and her husband, photographer Michael Mathers, mailed letters to dozens of friends and family members to let them know they had died by suicide. Petra and Michael were by all accounts healthy, happy, and deeply in love. As much a love story as
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