Episode Notes

There's a lot of types of guy in The Grapes of Wrath. I talk about some of them. Also, I dig a bit into how I think Steinbeck humanizes his types of guy even when using them for comic relief, and struggle a bit with my own feelings on the tension between giving people dignity, and not simply excising messy, upsetting realities from our art and discourse.

Towards the end of the episode I continue the discussion from episode 5 about homeless encampments in Seattle and talk about some of the grim conditions, so cw for that from about 58 minutes or so onward.

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