How ZADIE SMITH remade an EM FORSTER novel | ON BEAUTY by Zadie Smith (w/ Jam Pascual)
We're b-b-b-b-b-b-ack, baybee!!!! Our first episode of 2021 explores Zadie Smith's third novel, On Beauty, which tells the story of two diametrically-opposed (foes) families at a small liberal arts college that is totally not based on Harvard. Mandy and Mio invite Jam Pascual from The Gig is Up to diagnose the problems that characterize the liberal, mixed-race Belsey family, while reflecting on their own post-college experiences and seeing what this could suggest about a show that requires readings (meta). cw: this episode begins with a poetry reading; spoilers, plot involves marital infidelity, power abuse, inappropriate relations between students and teachers Show notes: About our guest—JAM PASCUAL is one of the hosts on The Gig is Up and Top of the Flops. He is a writer, with regular essays on new music appearing on The Rest is Noise PH. He is currently working on a new book of poems. Find The Gig is Up on Anchor (https://anchor.fm/the-gig-is-up-ph) and @an.average.law on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/an.average.law/)! - Does Marge Have Friends by Raphael Bob-Waksberg (https://twitter.com/RaphaelBW/status/752661152174182400) Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @thereqroompod for more updates! Our theme music: 64 Sundays by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/
We're b-b-b-b-b-b-ack, baybee!!!! Our first episode of 2021 explores Zadie Smith's third novel, On Beauty, which tells the story of two diametrically-opposed (foes) families at a small liberal arts college that is totally not based on Harvard. Mandy and Mio invite Jam Pascual from The Gig is Up to diagnose the problems that characterize the liberal, mixed-race Belsey family, while reflecting on their own post-college experiences and seeing what this could suggest about a show that requires readings (meta). cw: this episode begins with a poetry reading; spoilers, plot involves marital infidelity, power abuse, inappropriate relations between students and teachers Show notes: About our guest—JAM PASCUAL is one of the hosts on The Gig is Up and Top of the Flops. He is a writer, with regular essays on new music appearing on The Rest is Noise PH. He is currently working on a new book of poems. Find The Gig is Up on Anchor (https://anchor.fm/the-gig-is-up-ph) and @an.average.law on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/an.average.law/)! - Does Marge Have Friends by Raphael Bob-Waksberg (https://twitter.com/RaphaelBW/status/752661152174182400) Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @thereqroompod for more updates! Our theme music: 64 Sundays by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/