In the Wilds of Brooklyn: Roz Chast and Ben Katchor in Conversation from ted talk comedy Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 37 min 26 sec ✓ Published: 14-Oct-2022
Description: October 13, 2022nnA Newsweek article published in 1943 characterized Morris Hirshfield as an old man who lived, “way out in... the Wilds of Brooklyn.” In this program, Ben Katchor and Roz Chast will take this primitivizing and elitist observation as a starting point to reflect on Hirshfield’s story as a Jewish European immigrant who worked his way up the trade to become a tailor, then a successful business-owner, and later a celebrated self-taught painter in New York City.nnA cartoonist at
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