Our team creating The People’s Recorder, the podcast about the Federal Writers’ Project, has been busy!
The Living New Deal Project recently hosted a conversation, “Whose Stories? Exploring the Legacy of the Federal Writers’ Project,” where I spoke with Susan DeMasi, New Deal historian and biographer of the Writers’ Project national director, Henry Alsberg. We unpacked how the Writer’s Project was a “giant listening project,” in the words of oral historian Alessandro Portelli. Watch the recorded conversation here.
The Living New Deal also shared in their newsletter my post about getting the podcast underway and why we did that now.
That came on the heels of the Library of Virginia’s event, a lively evening talking with historians Gregg Kimball and Julian Hayter, with poet Kiki Petrosino and myself. Check out that look at the Legacy of the Federal Writers’ Project in Virginia here: https://youtu.be/PmUyIWlZWds?
