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Frank McCourt, Teacher ManBringing It All Back Home
Rock critics Greil Marcus and Dave Marsh look at Bob Dylan’s influence on over 40 years of rock and pop music. Then, Frank McCourt. Before he wrote Angela’s Ashes, he worked in New York City’s public schools for 30 years. On today’s show, he explains how his career as a teacher helped shape him as a writer.
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No Direction Home
Bob Dylan is the subject of a new documentary directed by Martin Scorsese called “No Direction Home.” For over 40 years, Bob Dylan has been reinventing himself, and in the process, reinvigorating popular music. Rock critics Greil Marcus and Dave Marsh join us for a look at his music. Greil Marcus is the author of Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads and The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes. Dave Marsh has written over a dozen books about rock and popular music. He cofounded the Detroit rock and roll magazine Creem, and served as an associate and contributing editor for Rolling Stone for five years. He also edited the first two editions of The Rolling Stone Record Guide.
Music:
Like a Rolling Stone (Disc 2, Cut 12)
When I Got Troubles (Disc 1, Cut 1)
Song to Woody (Disc 1, Cut 4)
Masters of War (Disc 1, Cut 11)
Visions of Johanna (Disc 2, Cut 10)
Teacher Man
Frank McCourt won a Pulitzer Prize for Angela's Ashes, his memoir of growing up in Ireland. Now, almost a decade later, he’s written an account of how the thirty years he spent teaching in New York City's public schools influenced his writing. The new book is titled Teacher Man.
» Read an excerpt of Teacher Man
Music:
Awakenings Soundtrack
Tracks 1, 2, 4, and 14
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