The Organist

Andrew Leland

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The Organist

Episodes (100)

Apr 18, 2019 Give Everybody Everything: The Financial Life of Bernadette Mayer
Apr 4, 2019 The Narrative Line
Mar 21, 2019 Consider the Grackles

The Organist

Apr 18, 2019
44½ minutes
41 MB

If poetry makes nothing happen, it also makes very little in the way of income. Take the acclaimed poet Bernadette Mayer. Often aligned with the Language Poets, Mayer overcame entrenched sexism to establish herself as one of the most influential poets of her generation. At 73, she's still producing work. And yet she only made about $17,000 last year. That's hardly enough to live on, even after Mayer and her partner moved out of New York City. Tech moguls like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk talk about Universal Basic Income as a fix for increasing automation. But could poetry — cu...

The Organist

Give Everybody Everything: The Financial Life of Bernadette Mayer

Andrew Leland

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