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Podcast summary
The Pulitzer Prize- winning author of Stiffed and Backlash examines the post-9/11 outpouring in the media, popular culture, and political life and offers a fiercely original view of ourselves, our history, and the future we may unwittingly be creating.
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Participant(s) Bio
Susan Faludi is a Pulitzer-Prize- winning journalist and the best-selling author of Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man and Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, which won the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, she has written for many publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Nation. Her new book, The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post 9/11 America, is an unflinching dissection of the mind of America after the events in 2001.
Born in Paris, France, raised in New York City, Kit Rachlis has served as Arts Editor of the Boston Phoenix, Executive Editor of The Village Voice, Editor-in-chief of the L.A. Weekly and Senior Projects Editor at the Los Angeles Times. In June 2000, he became Editor-in-chief of Los Angeles magazine. In the last four years, Los Angeles magazine has been nominated for four National Magazine Awards and won more City and Regional Magazine awards than any other magazine.
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