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S9, BONUS EPISODE! How to Fail: Claudia Rankine

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

CHAPTER

The Importance of Knowing Your Wife

In many ways, you're an anthropologist as well as a poet. I'm curious, yes. One of the passages in Just Ask which really stayed with me was the marriage counseling session you had with your husband. It almost seems to have sort of suddenly struck you that although you'd be married to this individual who you do incredible work with, that he was still a white man. So what does that mean to you? We are married. And he is a white man, and I am a black woman. But it's a real thing in our lives.

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