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Fresh Air, David Denby and Rosemond Purcell
- Narrated by: Terry Gross
- Length: 50 mins
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Summary
Staff writer and film critic for The New Yorker David Denby, and artist, photographer, and writer Rosemond Purcell on this edition of Fresh Air. Denby's new book, American Sucker, is a memoir about his brief obsession with the stock market during the height of irrational exuberance in 2000-2001. It started with his wife's announcement that she was leaving him. Denby began an attempt to make a million dollars so that he could buy out his wife's share of their New York apartment.
Rosemond Purcell has been called the "doyenne of decay" by sleight-of-hand artist Ricky Jay. Purcell photographed the decaying dice in his recent collection Dice: Deception, Fate, and Rotten Luck. Purcell's new book, Owls Head, is about her 20-year friendship with William Buckminster, an eccentric collector whose dilapidated antiques shop and 11-acre junkyard in Maine became something of a tourist attraction. Buckminster sold many of his items to Purcell who took them home and photographed them in large-format Polaroids. She's also collaborated three times on books with the late paleontologist and science historian Stephen Jay Gould. (Broadcast Date: February 2, 2004)