Podcasts Culture Soundings Off the Pedestal

Off the Pedestal

Published: May 18, 2014, 10:11 p.m.

b'What happens when we put people on pedestals? And what happens when we take them off? Host Killeen Hanson interviews her father about his estranged father. Andrew Altschul exposes the ordinariness of rock-stars in an excerpt from his novel Lady Lazarus. Lee Konstantinou interviews Arnold Rampersad about his biography of Ralph Ellison; his question is not What kept Ellison from publishing anything after Invisible Man? but rather, How did this author climb onto that pedestal in the first place?\\n\\nProducers: Killeen Hanson, Noah Burbank, Lee Konstantinou\\nHost: Killeen Hanson\\nFeaturing: Brent Hanson, Andrew Altschul, Arnold Rampersad\\nMusic: Noah Burbank\\n\\nMore info at:http://web.stanford.edu/group/storytelling/cgi-bin/joomla/index.php/shows/season3/195-episode-305-off-the-pedestal.html'