'Southern Discomfort,' Lenny Bruce, Stan Lee

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Nov 13, 2018

Songwriter and producer, Tena Clark, joins us to discuss her new book, Southern Discomfort: A Memoir, about growing up in small-town Mississippi in the 1950s.

 

Ronnie Marmo and Joe Mantegna join us (at 18:00) to discuss mounting the play, “I’m Not a Comedidan...I’m Lenny Bruce,” a one-man show about the life of Lenny Bruce.

 

Stan Lee died on November 12, at the age of 95. He was the chief writer and editor of Marvel Comics, the co-creator of Spider Man, The X-Men, and many more. Abraham Riesman is a staff writer at New York Magazine and Vulture, and joins us (at 36:00) to discuss the obituary he wrote about Lee in Vulture, “Stan Lee Gave More Than He Took.”

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