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<![CDATA[The Play Typer Guy: The Play Typer Guy Podcast]]>https://www.playtyperguy.com/s/the-play-typer-guyhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AFRL!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa2e2b655-3d95-40f1-8c45-da26e697f3bd_848x848.pngThe Play Typer Guy: The Play Typer Guy Podcasthttps://www.playtyperguy.com/s/the-play-typer-guySubstackWed, 11 Nov 2026 17:05:21 GMT<![CDATA[‘So Long, Susan Collins!’ With Tess Rafferty!]]>https://www.playtyperguy.com/p/so-long-susan-collins-with-tess-raffertyhttps://www.playtyperguy.com/p/so-long-susan-collins-with-tess-raffertyTue, 10 Nov 2026 12:21:31 GMTMy friend joins me to bid anything but fond farewell to Susan Collins as we discuss the 2026 midterm results. Tess was last on the podcast shortly before the 2024 election, so it was wonderful to reunite under far more pleasant circumstances.

Tess Rafferty is a comedian and actress who has written more than 500 episodes of TV. She’s the author of the 2012 culinary memoir, Recipes for Disaster, and the Kat Kelly mystery series.

Tess is performing at the Slideshow in Color in London on Sunday, November 15. If you’re not across the pond, you can buy tickets and stream the event from your home. Tess talks about music with actor Ato Essandoh (The Diplomat, Away, Chicago Med) on their podcast Ato & Tess Turn You On.

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]]><![CDATA[Midterm Election Special With Zaid Jilani]]>https://www.playtyperguy.com/p/midterm-election-special-with-zaidhttps://www.playtyperguy.com/p/midterm-election-special-with-zaidTue, 03 Nov 2026 12:01:53 GMTAtlanta-based freelance journalist (and fellow University of Georgia alum) Zaid Jilani joins me for a special midterm election edition of the podcast. As appropriate for our background, we discussed the Georgia Senate race, where Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff is cruising to re-election, and the Georgia gubernatorial race, where former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms remains in a dead heat with Republican billionaire Rick Jackson. Zaid offers some compelling reasons why Bottoms is underperforming Ossoff. I just hope Ossoff’s coattails, Donald Trump’s abysmal approval numbers, and Black voter rage over the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act is enough to get Bottoms across the finish line.

This is one of those days where I can’t predict what tomorrow’s piece will look like. We’ll both just have to wait and see.

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]]><![CDATA[Inside Haley Stevens’s Somewhat Predictable MAGA Heel Turn]]>https://www.playtyperguy.com/p/inside-haley-stevenss-somewhat-predictablehttps://www.playtyperguy.com/p/inside-haley-stevenss-somewhat-predictableMon, 02 Nov 2026 21:07:31 GMTI was trying to enjoy my Halloween weekend when supposed Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens pulled the ultimate trick or treat and endorsed Republican Mike Rogers in the Michigan Senate race. This is the same Mike Rogers who Stevens and her supporters spent the entire primary insisting was such a threat that it was important to nominate her as the candidate most likely to defeat him and keep the Senate seat blue.

Stevens torched her mostly undistinguished career out of a toxic stew of wounded pride, not-so-subtle bigotry, and flat-out delusional thinking (she suggested that Rogers might be like John McCain or Lisa Murkowski, but Rogers is running a shamelessly racist campaign and is openly a Trump stooge).

Stevens’s obvious mental breakdown is neither all that compelling nor likely to alter the outcome of the Senate race that actual real-live Democrat Abdul El-Sayed is leading, but I do think her larger motivations, while seemingly incoherent and self-obsessed, are worth examining in further detail. My friend Noah Berlatsky explains how it’s not unfortunate mental illness but a consuming ideology.

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Stevens And Fetterman Are Not Motivated By Mental Illness

This weekend, Michigan Democratic representative and losing Senate primary candidate Haley Stevens reversed her endorsement of Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed and instead endorsed election denier, Iran war supporter, and Trump goon Mike Rogers…

5 days ago · 80 likes · 1 comment · Noah Berlatsky

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]]><![CDATA[Bride Of Night At The House Of Laramie Dean!]]>https://www.playtyperguy.com/p/bride-of-night-at-the-house-of-laramiehttps://www.playtyperguy.com/p/bride-of-night-at-the-house-of-laramieTue, 27 Oct 2026 11:02:53 GMTLaramie Dean, author of the upcoming book There’s No Such Thing As a School for Witches, which you should pre-order right now, returns to discuss a major inspiration for his book — the delightful Angelique Collins (née Bouchard), aka Cassandra Blair Collins, aka Angelique DuVal (or DuBois, depending on the episode), aka Angelique Rumson, aka Valerie Collins, aka Miranda DuVal, from the classic 1960s Dark Shadows TV series, aka our favorite show. (Yes, I know, come Christmastime, I’ll say it’s The Avengers, but it’s the Halloween season now.)

The witch (and sometimes vampire) of seemingly a thousand names was brought to devilish life by the late Lara Parker, aka Mary Lamar Rickey, who was born on October 27. Lara unfortunately passed away a few weeks shy of her birthday in 2023.

Angelique remains immortal, though, so we’ll always take this day to celebrate them both.

“We’re all on the same side, aren’t we? My side.”

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]]><![CDATA[Night At The House Of Laramie Dean!]]>https://www.playtyperguy.com/p/house-of-laramie-deanhttps://www.playtyperguy.com/p/house-of-laramie-deanThu, 22 Oct 2026 11:01:10 GMTIt’s the most wonderful time of the year. My friend Laramie Dean returns for our annual Halloween special. The author, playwright, and distinguished gent has a new book coming out on November 24, There’s No Such Thing As a School for Witches, which you can and should pre-order. We talk witches and schools for witches that aren’t Hogwarts.

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]]><![CDATA[Discussing Batman’s Back Problems With Michael Mora!]]>https://www.playtyperguy.com/p/discussing-batmans-back-problemswithhttps://www.playtyperguy.com/p/discussing-batmans-back-problemswithThu, 15 Oct 2026 11:00:37 GMTMy friend Michael Mora returns to discuss the Batman: Knightfall movie, which adapts the classic 1990s storyline where the villain Bane broke Batman’s back. (He got better.) We also point out why Batman is more than just “a rich guy who beats up poor people” — not all poor people are criminals and some of the nation’s worst criminals are wealthy. Like, share, and subscribe!

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]]><![CDATA[Kaivan Shroff On Debra Messing’s New York Mess]]>https://www.playtyperguy.com/p/kaivan-shroff-on-debra-messings-newhttps://www.playtyperguy.com/p/kaivan-shroff-on-debra-messings-newTue, 13 Oct 2026 11:04:01 GMTPolitics and cultural commentator Kaivan Shroff joins me to discuss Will & Grace actor Debra Messing’s endorsement of Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman. Trump has endorsed and campaigned for Blakeman, who would end New York’s sanctuary city status and welcome ICE with open arms. He’s promised to ban transgender students from girls’ school bathrooms and locker rooms statewide.

Messing had previously endorsed Gov. Kathy Hochul and even supported Cynthia Nixon’s 2018 primary campaign for New York governor. She’s justified her Blakeman endorsement with concerns for “public safety,” which are not consistent with actual data. (Crime is steadily decreasing in New York.)

It’s easy to dismiss Messing as another has-been actor who’s gone MAGA, but considering that politics is an additive enterprise, it’s worth unpacking what’s happening, as well as acknowledging the growing tension within the party over Israel/Gaza.

Kaivan Shroff is a media and culture expert, attorney, and television commentator. He appears on CNN, Fox News, NBC, NewsNation & more. A Harvard, Yale and Brown graduate, he advises the Institute for Education and has written for HuffPost, The Hill & many others. He hosts the extremely enjoyable Extremely Reasonable podcast.

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]]><![CDATA[Discussing HBO’s ‘Lanterns’ With Michael Mora!]]>https://www.playtyperguy.com/p/discussing-hbos-lanterns-with-michaelhttps://www.playtyperguy.com/p/discussing-hbos-lanterns-with-michaelWed, 30 Sep 2026 14:01:21 GMTI started out September exploring the concept of fearlessness, as depicted in HBO’s Lanterns series. My friend Michael Mora joins me to close out the month with a deeper dive into the series and the Green Lantern mythos. Our power rings are fully charged and we’re ready to go. Please like, share, and subscribe!

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]]><![CDATA[Celebrating Judy Gumbo, The Original Yippie Girl]]>https://www.playtyperguy.com/p/celebrating-judy-gumbo-the-originalhttps://www.playtyperguy.com/p/celebrating-judy-gumbo-the-originalMon, 21 Sep 2026 11:00:31 GMTI was saddened to learn last week that legendary activist Judy Gumbo had passed away. This year continues to devastate us. I was fortunate enough to have interviewed Judy when her memoir, Yippie Girl, came out in 2022 and in her honor, I am posting that interview in full.

Judy was a founding member of the Yippies, the Youth International Party, a 1960s counter culture and satirical anti-war group, along with fellow radicals Anita and Abbie Hoffman, Nancy Kurshan and Jerry Rubin, and her husband Stew Albert.

In 1972, the FBI described Judy as “the most vicious, the most anti-American, the most anti-establishment, and the most dangerous to the internal security of the United States.” She took on the FBI and won — putting an end to illegal wire tapping.

Judy and I discussed the ongoing struggle for freedom and what role activism can play in our current politics. Please like, share, and subscribe.

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]]><![CDATA[Delivering Justice For The People With Author Billy Corriher]]>https://www.playtyperguy.com/p/delivering-justice-for-the-peoplehttps://www.playtyperguy.com/p/delivering-justice-for-the-peopleThu, 17 Sep 2026 11:01:44 GMTAuthor Billy Corriher — the first guest on this podcast — returns to discuss his latest book, Justice for the People: The Anita Earls Story. Corriher is the state courts manager for People’s Parity Project and a longtime advocate for fair courts and progressive judges. He worked at the Center for American Progress from 2012 to 2017, and he’s helped fight GOP efforts to pack the courts in his native North Carolina with far-right judges. His work has appeared in Facing South, Governing, ThinkProgress, and other outlets. In 2021, Billy released his book, Usurpers: How Voters Stopped The GOP Takeover Of North Carolina’s Courts.

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]]><![CDATA[Some Tough Talk With Evan Barker]]>https://www.playtyperguy.com/p/some-tough-talk-with-evan-barkerhttps://www.playtyperguy.com/p/some-tough-talk-with-evan-barkerThu, 27 Aug 2026 11:03:21 GMTEvan Barker is a former Democratic campaign operative and political strategist, whose new book Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative has not pleased mainstream Democrats or progressives. Evan joins me for a two-part discussion of some topics she covers in the book, which I do recommend reading, even if you’re tempting to find her positions heretical. Nothing is ever gained from shutting off communication. That’s how cults operate.

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]]><![CDATA[Why You Shouldn't Listen To Rahm Emmanuel]]>https://www.playtyperguy.com/p/why-you-shouldnt-listen-to-rahm-emmanuelhttps://www.playtyperguy.com/p/why-you-shouldnt-listen-to-rahm-emmanuelThu, 20 Aug 2026 11:02:11 GMTThis is Part Two of my discussion with author and activist Maya Contreras about the recent Democratic primary elections in Michigan and Wisconsin, and why some Democrats struggle with a true “big tent.”

Maya lives and works in New York City. She’s just finished a new book, The Language of Theft: How The Wealthy Fund Narratives That Rob America of Our Common Sense, in which she offers a blueprint of strategies Democrats can use to counter destructive, donor-funded right-wing narratives.

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]]><![CDATA[The Politics Of Fear]]>https://www.playtyperguy.com/p/the-politics-of-fearhttps://www.playtyperguy.com/p/the-politics-of-fearThu, 13 Aug 2026 11:03:28 GMTAuthor and activist Maya Contreras joins me to discuss the recent Democratic primary elections in Michigan and Wisconsin, and why some Democrats struggle with a true “big tent.”

Maya lives and works in New York City. She’s just finished a new book, The Language of Theft: How The Wealthy Fund Narratives That Rob America of Our Common Sense, in which she offers a blueprint of strategies Democrats can use to counter destructive, donor-funded right-wing narratives.

This is Part One of our discussion. Look for Part Two next week.

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]]><![CDATA[Noah Berlatsky On Graham Platner, Abdul El-Sayed, Zohran Mamdani, And More!]]>https://www.playtyperguy.com/p/noah-berlatksy-on-graham-platnerhttps://www.playtyperguy.com/p/noah-berlatksy-on-graham-platnerThu, 23 Jul 2026 11:02:37 GMTMy friend from the Everything is Horrible newsletter joins me to discuss, well, everything mentioned in the subject line, plus some related bonus topics. He also has choice words about the New York Times’ latest regularly scheduled column that suggests Democrats become West Wing Republicans so they can win elections.

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Graham Platner Is Not Going to Be Senator

A couple weeks ago I wrote a post in which I argued that, while I found Graham Platner an appealing candidate for Senate in Maine, his lack of experience made me cautious…

a year ago · 290 likes · 23 comments · Noah Berlatsky

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Platner vs. Stratton

Both the Maine Democratic Senate primary and the Illinois Democratic Senate primary feature a progressive running against a centrist. If you read progressive media or social media, though, it’s likely that you’re read one or more profiles of Maine progressive candidate…

8 months ago · 52 likes · 7 comments · Noah Berlatsky

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Jews Like Mamdani

Progressives are often suspicious of polls. They don’t like polls which show that people trust Trump on immigration (though those numbers have fallen); they don’t like polls that suggest that people like cops; they don’t like polls that suggest that Joe Manchin was in fact the only Democrat who could have won West Virginia b…

a year ago · 107 likes · 4 comments · Noah Berlatsky

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]]><![CDATA['Angels In America,' Lindsey Graham, And 'Clout']]>https://www.playtyperguy.com/p/angels-in-america-lindsey-grahamhttps://www.playtyperguy.com/p/angels-in-america-lindsey-grahamTue, 21 Jul 2026 11:03:17 GMTThis is the final act of my Angels in America discussion with from the Certain Thoughts Substack. Tony Kushner’s Roy Cohn has a lot in common with politicians whose animating philosophy is the pursuit of power. The late Lindsey Graham is a sobering example, despite the curious tributes to him by Democrats who should know better. Of course, as Belize says about the dead Cohn: “He was a terrible person. He died a hard death. So maybe . . . A queen can forgive her vanquished foe. It isn’t easy, it doesn’t count if it’s easy, it’s the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet. Peace, at least.”

Yet, forgiveness is not the same as forgetting. The latter is an insult to the injured. After Louis and Ethel Rosenberg’s ghost deliver a Kaddish over Cohn’s body, they say with justified disgust, “You son of a bitch.” I would’ve supported any Graham tribute that ended similarly.

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]]><![CDATA[Why 'Angels In America' Remains Shockingly Relevant]]>https://www.playtyperguy.com/p/why-angels-in-america-remains-shockinglyhttps://www.playtyperguy.com/p/why-angels-in-america-remains-shockinglyThu, 16 Jul 2026 11:02:30 GMT from the Certain Thoughts Substack joins me to discuss my favorite play, Angels in America. Evan just saw the 2003 HBO miniseries adaptation of Tony Kushner’s masterwork, and we discuss how a play written in 1991 and set in the 1980s is both simultaneously a snapshot of the period while also offering a shocking preview of modern politics. In so many ways, Angels in America feels as if it could’ve been written today.

Please watch/listen to part one of our discussion. Part two will run next week.

Now enjoy some clips from productions of Angels in America.

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Roy Cohn is perhaps the rare role that both Al Pacino and Nathan Lane could play convincingly — although Lane as Michael Corleone or Richard Roma would be fun to watch.

Belize (played wonderfully on stage and screen by Jeffrey Wright) is the moral center of the play.

Here’s a young Tony Kushner, discussing Angels in America, in his first live TV appearance on Charlie Rose.

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]]><![CDATA[Superman’s enduring liberalism ]]>https://www.playtyperguy.com/p/supermans-enduring-liberalism-9e7https://www.playtyperguy.com/p/supermans-enduring-liberalism-9e7Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:03:57 GMTThe new Supergirl movie comes out this week, and my son is excited to see it because he likes Jason Momoa and he’s not an unhinged incel. The free world is under assault by power-mad billionaires — or trillionaires in Elon Musk’s case, and we could use a powerful beacon of justice who uses their power to help people not satisfy grudges against marginalized groups. Last year, prior to the release of James Gunn’s Superman, my friend joined me to discuss the progressive champion who happens to come from another planet.

Edited excerpts from our discussion:

SER: What are your thoughts on the Superman origin … the idea that he’s somehow not an illegal alien — even though alien, that term is obviously dehumanizing, but he is literally an alien.

MICHAEL: In every version [of Superman’s origin], the Kents or whoever finds him law entirely to save this baby that they don’t know where he comes from. In one version, they think he might be Russian. You know, instead of sending a dog or a monkey they put a baby in the ship, which says a lot about what we thought about the Russians at that point when we thought it was normal behavior that they would put an infant child in a rocket to test it.

Yeah, in every version, he crashes on Earth and then the Kents forge the [adoption] documents or I think in the John Byrne version, he crashes on Earth but then there's a fortuitous long winter in Kansas that allows them to pretend that Martha Kent was pregnant before the winter started and she gave birth at the house, and after the winter, when hey were able to get back to civilization, they then claim the child is theirs through a natural birth

SER: Objectively, the dumbest version of the origin.

It became this question with the Byrne version where if Superman doesn’t care about his heritage. He’s only an American. Why isn’t he just a mutant? It doesn’t matter. You’ve no longer given any reason for him to be from Krypton. It doesn't define him. Earlier, you were talking about the current Absolute Superman series, which I think has done a good job of asking the questions of why Krypton and showing how [his heritage] influences him.

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On a previous podcast, my friend Lee Heidel from Neighborhood Comics and I were talking about with Lex Luthor. I mentioned one of the biggest problems I found with the Byrne version of Luthor … Obviously, I'm not going to say that billionaires can't be corrupt. We know that’s certainly true. But with Batman, the mob running Gotham is shown as bad, and here's how Batman is going to clean it up.

Byrne never really shows how is the world suffering because Lex Luthor is the richest man in the world? He wants to destroy Superman because he is more powerful than he is.

I thought Smallville did a good job showing that LuthorCorp was this corporation that came in and hurt the town, the community, and the Kents didn't like the Luthors as a result. But Byrne didn’t actually show in the Smallville scenes any evidence that Luthor even existed. So what makes him villainous? What makes him a problem?

And that kind of comes up with the modern politics we're seeing now in the world, because if billionaire Lex Luthor hates Superman, that means in our reality now, half the world hates Superman, right? He becomes a 50, 50 proposition.

Luthor would definitely own some sort of media platform that constantly smears Superman. “He’s an alien. We can’t trust him.”

MICHAEL: The writers in the ‘80s and even in the ‘90s who were writing Superman couldn't imagine that you could be outwardly villainous and outwardly just selfish and mean, and it would actually work with the general public.

Now we realize that if they had just written them that way, it would make perfect sense … between [Donald] Trump and [Elon] Musk and even Jeff Bezos who ironically looks closest to Lex Luthor than anybody. They don’t care what the public image is. In fact, they’re too powerful to mostly care about it. They care what the image of their companies are to a certain degree because it affects their stock prices.

But Jeff Bezos doesn’t really care if you think he’s a douche.He just cares if you think Amazon is a terrible company or you think his products are terrible.

As long as you keep consuming, buying your stuff off of Amazon or buying the newspaper, even though [the Washington Post] is kind of like a loss leader for him.

No, Luthor wouldn’t have to put on this benevolent face nowadays.

In the late ‘90s, when they had the storyline of President Luthor, it was seen as too fantastical. Now we essentially have President Luthor, but if he didn’t have the actual intelligence of Luthor.

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]]><![CDATA[Author Cassandra Neyenesch On The Stories We Need To Hear]]>https://www.playtyperguy.com/p/author-cassandra-neyenesch-on-thehttps://www.playtyperguy.com/p/author-cassandra-neyenesch-on-theMon, 22 Jun 2026 11:00:52 GMTMy friend Cassandra Neyenesch, a Brooklyn-based writer, released her debut novel A Little Bit Bad in May. She joined me on the podcast recently to discuss the book and its inspirations.

Cassandra is also the founding director of Abortion Stories, an organization that provides safe, supportive spaces for people to tell their abortion stories in the context of art and performance

Cassandra’s work has appeared in The Guardian, Brooklyn Rail, the Huffington Post, Public Books, The International Herald Tribune, and Art in America.

A Little Bit Bad is available at your preferred bookseller.

Highlights from our conversation:

How one woman murdered a man, got away with it, and lived on without any apparent regret.

No matter how many anti-abortion laws are passed, people of privilege will still have access to abortions if needed. These laws are thus intended to further marginalize the most vulnerable women.

Cassandra has done some amazing work with Abortion Stories.

We discuss the 1994 indie film Go Fish, and Cassandra’s piece about watching the movie with her daughter is worth a read.

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]]><![CDATA[Finding Southern Comfort In A Good Book With Meg Reid]]>https://www.playtyperguy.com/p/finding-southern-comfort-in-a-goodhttps://www.playtyperguy.com/p/finding-southern-comfort-in-a-goodWed, 17 Jun 2026 11:03:23 GMTJoining me on the podcast today is Meg Reid, the executive director of the Hub City Writers Project in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and the publisher of Hub City Press, where she finds and champions new and overlooked voices from the American South, including Carter Sickels, Drew Lanham, Ashley M. Jones, and Anjali Enjeti.

An editor and book designer, Meg’s essays have appeared online in outlets like DIAGRAM, the Oxford American, and The Rumpus. She holds an MFA in Nonfiction from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she served as Assistant Editor of the literary magazine, Ecotone, and worked for the literary imprint Lookout Books. She was a Publishers Weekly Star Watch 2021 Honoree.

Some highlights from our conversation

Meg discussed how corporate publishing tends to look for just one type of story from the South, which ignores the diversity of lived experience.

She explains how Hub City Press elevates voices from every group that represents the South.

Why we should let books be books, and not just part of a pipeline.

Meg shares how Hub City Bookshop in Spartanburg has built a community brought creative methods.

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]]><![CDATA[Third Annual Tony Award Special With Raven Snook]]>https://www.playtyperguy.com/p/third-annual-tony-award-special-with-966https://www.playtyperguy.com/p/third-annual-tony-award-special-with-966Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:02:14 GMTMy friend Raven Snook is a writer, editor, performer, mom and all-around diva (in the positive sense of the word) who’s currently the editor in chief for TDF Stages and a contributing theater critic for Time Out New York. She joins me once again to discuss this year’s Tony Awards.

This is part two of our kibbitz session, and we discuss Death of a Salesman, the musical flop Queen of Versailles, and The Jellicle Ball, an actually good version of Cats.

Raven’s work has also appeared in New York Magazine, Yahoo Parenting, the New York Post, The Village Voice, Bon Appétit, Better Homes & Gardens and Parents.com, among others.

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Some Highlights From Our Discussion

Raven raves about The Jellicle Ball. You don’t need a hypnotist to convince you it’s much better than Cats.

Raven explains why The Lost Boys musical doesn’t quite work.

I was in New York when the original Ragtime production opened, so I was interested to hear Raven’s thoughts about the revival. If The Jellicle Ball beats out Ragtime for the Tony, it will prove a catty footnote to The Lion King winning the top aware over the original Ragtime.

Raven believes Liberation should win the Tony for Best Play but she thinks it might have serious competition from Giant and The Balusters.

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