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Show for Oct. 10, 2010. Laura Kipnis: Scandals and Why We Love Them
What fuels society’s endless appetite for scandals? And what do public humiliations, meltdowns and flameouts reveal about their participants and the rest of us? The ever-trenchant social critic Laura Kipnis discusses her latest book, How to Become a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behavior. Those adventures include a lovelorn astronaut, an unhinged judge, a conniving confidant and a confabulating memoirist. What’s not to love?
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