Margo Jefferson on Ella Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and the Refraction of Her Life Through Memoir
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
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In this episode, Andrew talks to the author of Constructing a Nervous System, Margo Jefferson, about Ella Fitzgerald, cabinetmaking, Josephine Baker, and how memoir-writing refracts her life back to her.
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