Andrew Limbong
speaker
279 appearances
31 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 6d ago
Andrew Limbong’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But in some situations, you need them to know something without spelling it out, and telling stories can be a way of smuggling them the truth, particularly if the truth is illegal.
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That's a point that comes up in today's conversation with author Juana Aristide.
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Her new novel Astronaut is
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Is a murder mystery that takes place in Romania, nineteen eighty nine, under an autocratic government.
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And Aristide talks to MPR Scott Simon about being a kid there in that time and how strange it was watching the grown ups dance around the truth.
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That's after the break.
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So please go find out more at plus.npr.org slash book of the day.
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Hey, it's MPR's Book of the Day.
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I'm Andrew Limbong.
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So I thought today's interview with historian Thomas Mullaney was going to be kind of a rote discussion about the work of archiving and preservation.
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But instead, it gets into these really big questions about nihilism, entropy, and the very point of existence.
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Mullaney's new book is titled How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information.
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It's about the impermanent nature of information.
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And by extension the impermanent nature of human life.
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After the break, he talks to here and now's Peter Odad about why we shouldn't be scared of the quote universe falling apart.
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