In conversation with Merv Emre on The Critic and Her Publics
Welcome to season four of The Critic and Her Publics: The Art of the Interview. This season, host Merv Emre talks to professional interviewers of all types about how they get the answer they’re looking for, what makes a good question, how do you hear what’s unsaid, and how much pressure do you have to put on someone before they say something new?
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From the episode: ” Chana Joffe-Walt is a Peabody Award-winning journalist and a producer at This American Life. Her series on school desegregation, Nice White Parents, examined how progressive Brooklyn families undermined racial integration. She regularly takes over from Ira Glass to host special episodes on race, labor, and education. But her series of conversations with men, women, and children in Gaza inspired me to start the season with her, to find out How interviews can preserve the dignity and complicity of ordinary people in a time of genocide.”
for one full transcriptgo towards New York Review of Books.
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Critic and his public
Hosted by Merv Emre • Edited by Michelle Moses • Music by Dani Lencioni • by art
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Critic and his public is a co-production between the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University, New York Review of BooksAnd Lit Hub.
