Political analyst David Gergen explains the narrative of politics with a look ahead to the midterm elections. Author Edmund White has been exploring narrative for years but didn’t like what he found. He opened door, and the closet, to a new approach to writing about human relationships. Fifty years after the publishing of Harper Lee’s award winning book “To Kill A Mockingbird,” Americana talks with Reverend Thomas Lane Butts about the town of Monroeville Alabama, Lee’s hometown and the impact of the novel on the community. Americana meets oysterman Keith Chancley to talk about the business of selling oysters in Louisiana and the oyster jive.
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