HeyJaredFrom Somewhere with Anna Sale
Writings, recommendations, conversations and FUN from Anna Sale, host of Slate's podcast Death, Sex & Money. We're all coming from somewhere.
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This Climate Week, Meet People Trying (opens the original)
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I’m excited to tell you about a new journalism series launching this week at Climate Week in New York City.As thousands of climate policy experts, funders and investors converge on Manhattan, we are launching a new journalism project that highlights the personal stories and expertise of those working closest to our land, water and nature in the U.S.It’s called People Trying. Meet some of them here.As an interviewer, I have spent more than a dozen years talking with people about the most intimate
Gloria Steinem on facing death (opens the original)
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We are in the midst of a major turning of the page. So many of the heroes who shaped us are moving on from this life. I wrote about Dolly last week. This week, Wendell Berry, the writer of fiction, poetry, and essays, who could uniquely pull at my sense of responsibility and dread about our steady march toward consolidation and urbanization.And then, news of Gloria Steinem’s passing. Upon hearing of her death, I immediately pulled up a conversation she recorded for our show in 2016. I was out on
Thank God for Women Who Care (opens the original)
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When I was talking to Zoe Azulay as we produced this week’s episode about elder care, Zoe summed it up as profiles of “three women doing their best.” And in the United States right now, even doing our best doesn’t guarantee we’ll find the right kind of elder care for ourselves or our loved ones without breaking the bank. Nursing home care in the U.S. can run families $10,000 a month, a cost Medicare won’t pay for. When one of our guests, Anna de la Cruz, had her parents both develop dementia aro
How Doing Standup Made Novelist Elizabeth Strout Face Facts (opens the original)
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I love novelist Elizabeth Strout’s writing — its spareness that is never trying too hard. She tells us, the readers, just what we need to know when. Maybe it’s this patient unfurling that makes me totally fall in love with her characters. The first Strout character I fell for was Olive Kittridge, the namesake of the novel that would win the Pulitzer Prize and become a mini-series starring Frances McDormand.Each character is so specific. Her latest novel <a href="https://books.apple.com/us/book/t
"Too much science class and not enough field trip" in US media (opens the original)
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I’m not sure how I first heard about Peter Santenello’s work. Likely, someone I know posted one of his videos about Appalachia. My algorithms tend to light up when there’s grabby West Virginia content. And I clicked, interested to see how this latest story about where I grew up was told by an outsider.If you’re from somewhere where others usually write the script, you know how it goes. There are the quick establishing shots of familiar tropes. In southern WV, it’s coal cars on railroad tracks, h
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