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Fresh Air, November 10, 2006
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Summary
Author Michael Wex and film critic David Edelstein, on this edition of Fresh Air. Michael Wex is the author of Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods which has just been published in paperback. Wex explores the history and culture of Yiddish: its complaints, curses and codes. Wex is a novelist, lecturer, and translator (his translations include a Yiddish version of The Threepenny Opera). Then, journalist, feminist, and cultural critic Ellen Willis who has been described as a "natural dissident who is always taking unpopular positions." Willis died yesterday at the age of 64, of lung cancer. Her political essays appeared in The Nation and elsewhere. And she wrote about music for Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and The Village Voice. She won wide acclaim for her 1981 collection of essays, Beginning to See the Light, about the state of feminism in the 70s. At the time of her death she was a professor of journalism at New York University. Finally, film critic David Edelstein reviews Babel written by Guillermo Arriaga and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. [Broadcast Date: November 10, 2006]
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