{"podcast":{"title":"Workers' Lit","slug":"workers-lit-6064704","podcast_index_feed_id":6064704,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/d93a8430/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.workerslit.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/36344908/36344908-1762355634045-0250c6a539c04.jpg","author":"Workers' Lit","episode_count":185,"summary":"Your favorite podcast about literature for hot, cool, gay, and/or working class people. Hosted by Aysha, Lenore, Jacob, and Jen. New episodes on Mondays. Patreon: Patreon.com/workerslit Contact us at workerslit@gmail.com.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-13T12:20:52.519473+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/workers-lit-6064704"},"episode":{"title":"Wallace Shawn's \"The Fever,\" ft. Ethan (People's New Republic).","slug":"wallace-shawn-s-the-fever-ft-ethan-people-s-new-republic","published_at":"2026-05-26T01:10:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/workers-lit-6064704/wallace-shawn-s-the-fever-ft-ethan-people-s-new-republic","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/workers-lit-6064704","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/workerslit/episodes/Wallace-Shawns-The-Fever--ft--Ethan-Peoples-New-Republic-e3jt2r3","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/d93a8430/podcast/play/120539427/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-26%2F406863ff-ef08-f1fa-ef83-9d08bc15038e.mp3","summary":"Yes, THAT Wallace Shawn wrote a play about reckoning with capitalism’s horrors as a privileged person in the imperial core. Written in 1990, it hits like a dozen punches to the gut. Ethan of People’s New Republic and The Sandcastle Business joins us to discuss his own staging of this show, the impacts it’s had on him, and the brutality of the challenge it poses. Listen to Ethan read the entirety of the play here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4xJMz8zB5xbHHU1hFbifGb?si=0gEWZZLjTSeqJVrNzPnrAQ Check out the Workers’ Lit Patreon below! Www.patreon.com/workerslit Check out Jacob’s guest appearance on People’s New Republic, alongside the show Sandcastle Business! https://open.spotify.com/episode/7LFMgtdTVjhnoed8eRbUjl?si=xpK7lfGwS8iFRMptdw4kyg https://open.spotify.com/show/5Zys77kT2JBZPByOUXrvvZ?si=fxuUfUvmRDaG6MaYG4krXg","meta_description":"Yes, THAT Wallace Shawn wrote a play about reckoning with capitalism’s horrors as a privileged person in the imperial core. Written in 1990, it hits like…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6100,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/workers-lit-6064704/episodes/wallace-shawn-s-the-fever-ft-ethan-people-s-new-republic/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/workers-lit-6064704/wallace-shawn-s-the-fever-ft-ethan-people-s-new-republic.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}