David Simon on the Rise of Pornography

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David Remnick
The New Yorker Radio Hour | Sep 29, 2017

David Simon talks about the colorful, violent rise and the pernicious presence of pornography in our culture. The rapper Wiki talks about growing up; the writer Karl Ove Knausgaard talks about near-death experiences, raising kids, puberty, brain surgery, and turtles.

Plus, Ellie Kemper plays a character with pathological delusions of gracefulness.

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