A Brief Conversation with Armistead Maupin

Homophilia

WOW Podcast Network

Comedy

4.4 • 926 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The legendary author of the essential Tales of the City series joins us from London, where a pot roast awaits him, to talk about whether the magic of ‘70s San Francisco can ever exist again, why Breaking Bad and Six Feet Under are his current comforts, the PBS gay kiss that rocked the world, the Early Frost/Our Sons/Consenting Adults TV movie moment that examined gay life strictly in terms of how hard it is on your mom, and whether his character Brian’s 1976 prediction that he and his friends would be 50-year-old libertines in a world full of 20-year-old Calvinists has actually come to pass.

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1:04.4	Matt, I'm my big show.
1:08.2	My fan boy fork is about to pop out of my mouth. I am truly about gush on someone in a truly unprecedented way.
1:22.0	We have armist head mom been on today's show, which is...
1:28.0	The get of gets. We throw around the word icon, we throw around legend, but it, yeah. Is there anybody more iconic, more legendary?
1:38.4	I mean, he is, his work is such a part of my life and such a part of my like journey as an adult person who is queer and like such a part of individuating myself from my own family who I love and and just all of there's so many things that his characters and his work have been like signposts through that it honestly and I'm aware as you are that he is a human being who likes to talk and will have work that he would like to promote, which is the case here.
2:16.1	There's a new book in the Tales of the City series.
2:18.1	But just the idea of him coming on here literally never entered my mind.
2:21.8	I consider him almost like a Jessica Fletcher.
2:27.2	Like a prolific author who also doesn't exist and you can't really interact with him in real life.
2:32.2	It does feel like he transcends podcasts, you know, like the fact that he, like we're just waiting for him to enter the Zoom right now and we're just going to jump in with him whenever he comes but the fact that I'm even saying those words don't make it's it's like Armis said Maupin's going to be on Zoom with us like it just doesn't it doesn't compute it doesn't make sense you yeah that I mean we
2:57.8	should say the new book in the Tales of the City series is called Mona of the Manor. It is probably out right now when you're hearing this and I think this is the 10th book in the series. It's supposed to be the final one. He has said in the past it's a final one so maybe we'll you know
3:17.1	Get a final final answer on that I don't know who's to say it is a bit of a time jump, a time leap backwards to a time when the character of
3:28.6	Mona Ramsey is alive and living on a manner in England.
3:34.0	Mona is one of my favorite characters
3:36.4	in the history of the written word.
3:39.3	It is lovely to see her back.
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