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Dec 2020
32m 26s

Live at Home Part II: Phoebe Bridgers

WNYC STUDIOS AND THE NEW YORKER
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Phoebe Bridgers’s tour dates were cancelled—she was booked at Madison Square Garden, among other venues—so she performs songs from her recent album, “Punisher,” from home. The critic Amanda Petrusich talks about the joys of Folkways records, and the novelist Donald Antrim talks about a year in which he suffered from crippling depression and rarely left his a ... Show More
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