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- Transom Editors
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- Location: Cambridge, MA
- Joined PRX: Sep 21, 2003
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- "Seafood Joint"
- Summary: A racist man turns violent against my friends and me at a seafood restaurant.
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Review of Seafood Joint
Transom Editors
Posted on November 14, 2003 at 09:18 AM
Hans Anderson isn't exactly Garrison Keillor or Joe Frank--he has his own voice-- but if forced to make a comparison I'd say he's somewhere in between.
"Seafood Joint" is compelling and it's only seven minutes but it feels much longer---in a good way. Anderson is a master of digressions. Throughout his story he digresses from the narrative in a way that manages to enhance the overall direction and momentum of the story. Where would one broadcast this piece? Where there's a 7:05 gap. As race relations is one of the themes it would be an interesting piece to play on Martin Luther King Jr. Day... I could certainly hear this on "The Next Big Thing, " "Radio Lab," or "This American Life"--that is if they have a compatible theme.
Hans Anderson reviewed a piece here, on PRX, and wrote: "I think PR needs a shake up." Well ,"Seafood Joint" would do a fine job of giving public radio a gentle shaking.
-CM