Episode #3: Pilot Season, The Mermaid, and a Chat with Steve Almond
On this episode…
- Sherman and Jess talk about deadlines, and blowing right on past them.
- In the wake of Robin Williams’ death, they discuss the “overwrought,” “sentimental,” “overwritten” Dead Poets Society, which they both love anyway.
- Sherman reads the new opening to Pilot Season, an unfinished work he’s been laboring over for years.
- Jess reads from The Mermaid, which Sherman accurately pegs as a “white-trash fairy tale.”
- Joke-telling as a weakness.
- A chat with Steve Almond, author of Against Football, about his feelings on football. (He’s against it.) Jess predicts he will not be on The NFL Today this fall.
- The over-under on how many pieces of hate mail Almond gets before the Super Bowl.
- The epic, historical ass-kicking of Native American warrior culture and the romance of lost causes.
—Stu