Q

Schedule for Monday 23 June

More on the show.

Here's what we have on tap for you today. Please note all schedules are subject to last-minute changes. Check back for updates. 

  • With the 100th anniversary this Saturday of the assassination that set the war in motion, Jian speaks with several guests about the reverberations of WWI felt today in our culture, from literature to society. Today, Pat Mills, comic writer and author of the celebrated U.K. comic Charley's War, about how we look to that horrific first war for our visual imagery of a future apocalypse and Phil Klay, author and Iraq war vet, on how writing on the war changed our notion of the soldier and his experience.

  • Rising alt comic and podcaster Kurt Braunohler, the first comedian signed to venerable Portland punk rock music label Kill Rock Stars.
     
  • From the Best of Q: actress Angelica Huston on her memoir, A Story Lately Told.