Fri. 12:06 – Writer and journalist Janet Malcolm died last week, 06/25/2021.
leaving behind articles in The New Yorker and several nonfiction books and essay collections many of which (as Alex Clark writes in The Guardian) “touch on the ambiguity, the uncanniness and the deep psychodrama of generating words and the fragile, contingent way that those words themselves generate meaning.” Leigh Rich and P. T. Bridgeport discuss Malcom’s legacy and works, focusing on 41 False Starts, The Journalist and the Murderer, and The Impossible Profession. Listen to WRUU 107.5 FM in Savannah and globally @ wruu.org.