Pushkin. Hey friends Malcolm here. I hope you're enjoying the Development Hell

series as much as we are. We've got more great ones in the pipeline. Well while we've got our heads in

Hollywood and the Oscars coming up this weekend I want to share a great interview

from our friends over Talk Easy. Sam Fragoso talks with the brilliant New York Times critic Wesley Morris

all about this year's Oscar contenders and the movies that should have made the

gun but didn't.

Plus, the state of the industry in general.

It's a great listen, and don't worry.

We'll be back on Thursday

for the next episode from Development Hell. This is talk easy. I'm San Frigoso.

Welcome to the show. Today I'm joined by writer and fellow podcaster Wesley Morris.

Since 2015 Morris has served as the critic at large for the New York Times, where he's also

co-hosted the popular podcast, Still Processing, alongside Jay Wertham.

While the show has been on hiatus, Wesley has continued publishing searching and often moving

essays that explore the intersection of race and pop culture.

His work was first awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2012

during his tenure at the Boston Globe,

and then again, most recently in 2021 at the height of the pandemic.

But what I think makes his work special, and you'll hear it a fair bit in this conversation is not only his ability to connect the dots or to

see the bigger picture, but to do so in real time with readers and listeners alike.

Wesley doesn't come to the page or the microphone with the puzzle pre-assembled.

The pieces of the story, or the theory, are always there, yes, but the road to a good idea the discovery process which can often be

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