Episode 16: Laura Poitras, David Bowie’s Last Band, and the Poet Brenda Shaughnessy

The New Yorker Radio Hour
5 feb 2016 55 min
Episode 16: Laura Poitras, David Bowie’s Last Band, and the Poet Brenda Shaughnessy
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<p>The Oscar-winning documentarian Laura Poitras (“Citizenfour”) talks to David Remnick about her first solo museum exhibition, “Astro Noise,” which channels her investigations of government surveillance into immersive installation art. A group of jazz musicians recall how David Bowie found them in a hole-in-the-wall club and enlisted them to create “Blackstar.” And the poet Brenda Shaughnessy reads Hilton Als a poem about living in a loft full of lesbians, back when New Yorkers could still afford to smoke.</p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>

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