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Getting To The (Power) Bottom Of Ripley

Crooks always win

Highsmith is what Ayn Rand might’ve been had she had a few compulsions other than megalomania, and of course some talent and imagination.

Jeff is fascinated by the popularity of Patricia Highsmith's character, Tom Ripley. How did such a monster come to be such an accurate reflection of our national shame, the President?

Read the transcript, without Jeff being distracted by dogs barking, here:

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Jeff Dorchen

Jeff is a visual artist, songwriter/musician, actor, essayist, fiction writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter. He's been a playwright, songwriter, and performer with Chicago's Theater Oobleck since 1988, a writer and actor with Red Baron Films since 2000, and a contributor to This Is Hell! since 1996. He currently lives in Los Angeles.

 

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