May 20, 2024 - Ethan Hawke, Young Black Woman | Old White Man, and parenting
About The Episode
Writer Flannery O’Connory was a devout Catholic. She grew up in Georgia and eventually lived on a farm among peacocks. She negotiated life under the threat of looming death because she had lupus. But her imagination took her elsewhere. Mostly to peculiar places, often violent ones, where prophets, sinners and outsiders sought truth and redemption.
Now her biography, her characters and her life of the mind converge in the new film “Wildcat.” It’s directed by Ethan Hawke, he also co-wrote it with Shelby Gaines and it stars his daughter, Maya Hawke as Flannery O’Connor.
Ethan Hawke joined The Culture Show ahead of his event at Coolidge Corner Theatre for a screening, followed by a Q and A on May 23rd and May 24th.
From there we meet the artists behind an upcoming exhibit at the South Shore Art Center titled “Young Black Woman|Old White Man.” It shows two very different perspectives and experiences of events that have rattled the world: From the murder of George Floyd to the January 6th insurrection.
It features the work of Devyn Casey, an artist and art teacher based in Norfolk, Virginia and South Shore artist James Burke. Opening night is May 30th, the exhibit is on through June 30th.
Finally, writer Lucas Mann joins us to talk about his latest book, Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances.” Lucas Mann teaches English at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and lives in Providence, Rhode Island where he and his wife co-own Riffraff Bookstore and Bar.
