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Today: Talia Lavin, author of Wild Faith, and Zach Rabiroff, a writer on books, comics, and culture living in Brooklyn, New York.
Issue No. 397
Serving Some Purpose
Talia Lavin and Zach Rabiroff
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Serving Some Purpose
by Talia Lavin and Zach Rabiroff
Zach Rabiroff: Talia, Iβve been thinking lately about Bertolt Brecht, and what he said about the trees.
Brecht was a refugee from the Nazis and living in Stockholm in 1939, when he wrote a poem called βTo Future Generations.β The question he had on his mind concerned the weight of the world in that moment: How much responsibility did an artist have to talk or think about something, or anything, else? Just what was a poet supposed to be doing at a time like this?
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