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Rosanna Mclaughlin is an editor at The White Review.

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The Pious and the Pommery

Essay

Issue No. 18

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Essay

Issue No. 18

I.   Where is the champagne? On second thoughts this is not entirely the right question. The champagne is in the ice trough, on...

Essay

April 2019

Ariana and the Lesbian Narcissus

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Essay

April 2019

‘Avoid me not!’ ‘Avoid me not!’                                   Narcissus   Let me describe a GIF I’ve been watching. A lot....

I’m not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility People can connect with each other I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them People are ready to say, ‘Yes, we are part of a world’— Studs Terkel   Studs was an inspiring historian The child of Russian immigrants living in Chicago, he spent his life talking to people — famous people from Dr King to C P Ellis and pretty much everyone in between — but mainly to normal people, working people (and, all too often, unemployed people) The classic oral historian, he was an obsessive archivist who told us about economics and politics as felt in our everyday lives He catalogued the daily routines of communities; the small niggles of wage labour that collected over a lifetime grind us into the floor, as well as the little acts of humanity that we build our relationships on Studs mapped personal stories of working-class solidarity, and, all told together, he mapped the political changes of almost half a century Culture drove Studs He started his career as a screenwriter and actor, starring in his own sitcom Studs’ Place, until his outspoken political allegiances got him blacklisted by that indignant little senator, Joe McCarthy In 1952 he got an hour-a-week spot on 987 WFMT Chicago, a small local arts station, and soon was broadcasting five days a week He continued to do so for the next forty-five years The majority of those broadcasts were interviews and, combined with a number of books of collected memories, they formed his life’s work In them he talked to the people mass-culture sees only as ‘audience’, and asked them what constituted their own culture of daily life   Studs died at the dawn of a global financial crisis (his epitaph: ‘Curiosity didn’t kill this cat’) he might half recognise from his youth; capital, unregulated, crashing like a wall of water through people’s daily experience, tearing apart the fragile homes we’ve made for ourselves But the way the working class constitutes itself within capital

Contributor

July 2016

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Contributor

July 2016

Rosanna Mclaughlin is an editor at The White Review.

Ten Years at Garage Moscow

Art Review

November 2018

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Art Review

November 2018

When I arrive in Moscow, I am picked up from the airport by Roman, a patriotic taxi driver sent to collect me courtesy of...
Becoming Alice Neel

Art

August 2017

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Art

August 2017

From the first time I saw Alice Neel’s portraits, I wanted to see the world as she did. Neel was the Matisse of the...

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fiction

December 2011

Travel

Paul Kavanagh

fiction

December 2011

Taxi The taxi stopped and Henry climbed into the taxi. The taxi driver went around the block three times...

feature

November 2012

Life outside the Manet Paradise Resort : On the paintings of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Orlando Reade

feature

November 2012

*   A person is represented, sitting in what appears to be the banal and conventional pose of a...

poetry

January 2014

Tuesday Will Be War

Jáchym Topol

TR. Alex Zucker

poetry

January 2014

Jáchym Topol (b. 1962), like most Czech authors of his generation, wrote poetry for years before turning to prose....

 

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