David Hadju on the Treatment
David Hadju, author of The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How it Changed America, is this week's interview on KCRW's The Treatment. Rick loved the book. I didn't like it quite as much. Anyway, the interview is a typically erudite one by Elvis Mitchell, the former NY Times film critic, who is the sort of person who seems to know a little something about everything. The Treatment is available online and as a podcast through iTunes. And heads up on next week's show, featuring an interview with Andrew Stanton, director of Wall-E.
posted by Paul Miles at
10:37 PM
1 Comments:
Paul,
I wouldn't say I loved it anymore than you did. In my Austin Chronicle review I said this:
A more thorough examination of how comics survived would have provided an upbeat ending to an otherwise bleak story and further enhanced the fascinating narrative of The Ten-Cent Plague.
And in the piece you linked to, I used the book only as a source for Sterling North's "A National Disgrace (And a challenge to American Parents)" and offter no commentary on the quality of Hadju's book.
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