Episode #540
He With My Eyes, I in His Shoes
Friday, June 03, 2005
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(Anatomy of Anatomy (© Third Rail Press))
Making vows in New York and Ireland. Also, reflections from students who have completed Gross Anatomy, the first-year medical school rite of passage. And, the story of a Polish-Jewish survivor facing down the last of too many losses, taken from a new novel by Nicole Krauss. Our musical guest is the new music ensemble “Eighth Blackbird.”
Heard on the Second Floor...
My Sister’s Wedding
Gray Matter
If brain cells could speak, here’s what they might say, according to the imaginings of Mark O’Donnell and Scott Prendergast.
Gross Anatomy
Eighth Blackbird
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Die Laughing
Leo Gursky is a Polish-Jewish immigrant. Back in Poland he was in love with a girl named Alma. She left before the war, pregnant with his child. He promised to follow. When he finally made it here, it was too late; she had remarried. So, he lives a life of ...
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