{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/696568de9ab39048a63ed7f7/6965691f1266d4af749ed398?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Read My Letter","description":"<p>Emily, John and David discuss impeachment, the pushback against Pete Buttigieg, and they offer a review of the most important stories of 2019.</p><p>Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:</p><ul>\n<li>Emily: The, soon to be, end of an era with her warm and welcoming neighborhood grocery store <a href=\"http://www.romeoandcesare.com/\">Romeo and Cesare’s </a>\n</li>\n<li>John: Thomas Fuller and Josh Haner for the New York Times: “<a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/17/us/oakland-california-homeless-camp.html\">Portrait of an Oakland California Homeless Encampment</a>.” and <a href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13549-9\">A 5700 year-old human genome and oral microbiome from chewed birch pitch</a> in the journal Nature.</li>\n<li> David: <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/anna-fifield/\">Anna Fifield</a> for the Washington Post: “<em>Taiwan’s tea party aims to burst Beijing’s one-China bubble.”</em>\n</li>\n<li>Chatter from listener Ionic Tonic @ionictonic about a series of tweets from Surprised Eel Historian @greenleejw about the importance of eels in the economies of British medieval and renaissance times.</li>\n</ul><p><br></p><p>For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, David, and John recite some favorite passages of poetry and non-fiction.</p><ul>\n<li>Emily: <a href=\"https://poets.org/poem/blood-history\"><em>Blood History</em></a> by Dwayne Betts</li>\n<li>John: <a href=\"https://www.hhimwich.com/hughlings_himwich/2007/07/sorting-it-out-.html\"><em>Sorting it out</em></a><em> </em>by Philip Booth</li>\n<li>David: Lytton Strachey’s book <em>Eminent Victorians</em> writing about <a href=\"https://www.bartleby.com/189/201.html\">Florence Nightingale</a>\n</li>\n</ul><p> </p><p>You can tweet suggestions, links, and questions to <a href=\"https://twitter.com/slategabfest?lang=en\">@SlateGabfest</a>. Tweet us your cocktail chatter using #cocktailchatter or post it to our Facebook page. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)</p><p> </p><p>The email address for the Political Gabfest is <a href=\"mailto:gabfest@slate.com\">gabfest@slate.com</a>. (Email may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)</p><p><br></p><p>Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.</p><p><br></p><p>Research by Bridgette Dunlap.</p><p> </p>","author_name":"Slate Podcasts"}