On today's episode, we welcome Jeremy Braddock, author of the new book Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums (University of California Press). Jeremy is a literary scholar and cultural historian specializing in the history of modernism, especially in the U.S. He teaches in the department of Literatures in English at Cornell. In addition to Firesign, Jeremy authored Collecting as Modernist Practice (Johns Hopkins 2012). His work focuses on collaboration and artistic groups; cultural institutions; material texts, media, and sound; libraries and information.
And we have a very special guest joining us, David Ossman, one of the members of the Firesign Theatre, the legendary comedy group and subject of Jeremy’s book. David’s Zooming in from his home on Whidbey Island, where he’s currently performing in the play Flemming, which David adapted and directed with his son Orson.
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