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Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper

Season 4 Episode 7

About the Episode

Long before he won the National Book Award, Latinx poet Martín Espada worked after school in a factory making legal pads. Espada, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, economists Natasha Sarin, Betsey Stevenson, and Justin Wolfers, historian Jill Lepore, and actor John Turturro join Elisa New to reflect on social mobility, and what connects manual labor with the raw materials of poetry and law.

Aired: 05/12/24 | Expires: 06/10/24 | Runtime: 25m 21s