But First, Coffee

The best part of waking up is cognitive seduction.

Dig if you will, a picture: A woman lying wide awake in bed at 3am. || Theme  music by Whitney Mower.

Annotated: Fiona Apple’s Art of Radical Sensitivity, a profile by Emily Nussbaum in The New Yorker.  Discussed: Emotionally vulnerable art, internalized misogyny, women musicians on their own islands, being your own svengali, and the enduring bias of the first listen. Voices: Me, your host, Ann Friedman. Along with Whitney Mower, Jade Chang, and Drea Clark. This is an audio experiment related to The Ann Friedman Weekly newsletter. Thanks for listening.

A short description of this audio experiment that I am not yet confident enough to call a podcast.