fiction/non/fiction S3 Ep. 9: All the President's Henchmen: Susan Choi and Garrett Graff on Lev Parnas, Igor Fruman, and the Long History of Henching in Politics and Literature
In this episode, novelist Susan Choi and journalist Garrett Graff talk to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about henchmen in political headlines and political literature. Graff talks about the word’s mob connotations, as well as its connections to the Trump and Nixon administrations; Choi talks about degrees of loyalty, and henchmen in literature, from Falstaff to Trust Exercise and American Woman.
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Guests:
Selected readings for the episode:
Garrett Graff
- The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
- The Threat Matrix: Inside Robert Mueller's FBI and the War on Global Terror
Susan Choi
Others
- Trouble Is My Business by Raymond Chandler, including the story “Finger Man”
- Thumb-headed henchman | LRC Presents: All the President's Lawyers
- Rudy Giuliani's Ukraine Henchman Lev Parnas Roped in Everybody, But the Funniest Is Devin Nunes
- The Godfather: 50th Anniversary Edition
- All the President's Men
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