Cheryl Strayed and Liz Tigelaar on New Show 'Tiny Beautiful Things,' How to Learn From Your Mistakes, Short Stories from Kelly Link, Nick Cave at the Guggenheim
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A new Hulu series imagines what might have happened to best-selling author and memoirist Cheryl Strayed if she had never made the decision to hike the Pacific Crest Trail (made famous by her book, Wild). Liz Tigelaar is the writer and showrunner for this new series, called "Tiny Beautiful Things," based on Strayed's book of essays by the same name. The series stars Kathryn Hahn as Clare, a wife, mom, and struggling writer who is confronted with an offer to become an advice columnist right as her own life is falling apart. Tigelaar and Strayed join us to discuss the series, which premieres on Hulu on April 7.
If at first you don't succeed...maybe you produced a product like Olestra. Or limeade-flavored Oreos. Or Colgate's beef lasagna. These items are all on display at the traveling Museum of Failure, which is now at Industry City in Brooklyn. Founder Samuel West joins us to discuss what we can learn from failure, and why it's necessary to innovate.
Author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link is widely considered to be one of the masters of the modern American short story. Her new collection, White Cat, Black Dog, takes seven traditional fairytales and updates them for the modern age, from Snow White to Hansel and Gretel. Link joins us to discuss the collection ahead of her in-person event at Greenlight Bookstore at 7:30 pm.
[REBROADCAST FROM JANUARY 5, 2023] An exhibition on view now at the Guggenheim surveys the work of Chicago artist Nick Cave, who you may recognize from his mosaic installations scattered around the New York City subway. Nick Cave: Forothermore, displays Cave's sculptures, video projects, textiles, and also early work of the artist. Cave, alongside Naomi Beckwith, the Guggenheim's deputy director and lead curator, join us to discuss the exhibition, which is on view until April 10.
