Heather Radke
Heather Radke joins Jordan to talk about Butts: A Backstory, the playful invitation of the book's title, the general unruliness of bodies, and the joys of a JSTOR deep-dive.
MENTIONED:
- Jodie Foster's Coppertone ad
- "Baby Got Back," Sir Mix-a-lot
- Elizabeth Alexander's "The Venus Hottentot"
- The Normman & Norma Statues
Heather Radke\xa0is an essayist, journalist, and contributing editor and reporter at\xa0Radiolab, the Peabody Award\xad\u2013winning program from WNYC. She has written for publications including\xa0The Believer, Longreads, and\xa0The Paris Review,\xa0and she teaches at Columbia University\u2019s creative writing MFA Program. Before becoming a writer, Heather worked as a curator at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in Chicago.
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