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"Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past" by Simon Reynolds
"Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past" by Simon Reynolds
Interviewer(s): 
Jim Fleming
Steve Paulson
Anne Strainchamps
Guest(s): 
Simon Pegg
Ernest Cline
Susan J. Matt
Simon Reynolds
Producer(s): 
Veronica Rueckert
Doug Gordon
09.16.2012
 (was 10.02.2011)

Tribute albums, reunion tours and mash-ups.  If pop culture’s all about the new, why is there so much wallowing in our immediate past?  Simon Reynolds joins us to talk about his book, “Retromania.”   Is this retromania a death knell for our own originality?

  1. Simon Pegg on Growing Up As A Nerd

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    Celebrated writer, director and actor Simon Pegg talks to Steve Paulson about his love of "Star Wars" and how it fired up his imagination and his career. 

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  2. Ernest Cline on his novel, "Ready Player One"

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    Ernie Cline talks to Anne Strainchamps about his novel, "Ready Player One," which revolves around a massively multi-player online game and '80s pop culture.

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  3. Susan J. Matt on "Homesickness: An American History"

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    Historian Susan J. Matt talks to Jim Fleming about her book, "Homesickness: An American History." 

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  4. Simon Reynolds on "Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past"

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    Simon Reynolds talks to Steve Paulson about his book, "Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past." 

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