Gist: A Show for Mere Mortals




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Summary: <a href="https://twitter.com/kathleenhoran?lang=en">Kathleen Horan</a> writes obituaries for the living. Her Audible original series, <a href="https://mobile.audible.com/pd/Radio-TV/Mortal-City-Audiobook/B075SGPKY6"><em>Mortal City</em></a>, is an anthology of lesser-known New York characters: Douglas the sanitation worker, Serge the barman, Rocky the ambulance commandant. “I just kept feeling like there were people that I was missing,” says Horan. She prefers to talk to people who live and work on the city’s margins: “They just can’t help but show you higher up on the thigh of their story.”<br>In the Spiel, the latest page in the very long scrapbook on President Trump’s communication catastrophes.