Aimee Mann Live, with Atul Gawande

About this episode

<p><span>Aimee Mann, the celebrated Los Angeles singer and songwriter, recently released an album called “Queens of the Summer Hotel.” The album was inspired in part by Susanna Kaysen’s best-selling memoir “Girl, Interrupted,” about Kaysen’s time in a psychiatric hospital. Mann sat down with </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/atul-gawande?source=search_google_dsa_paid&gclid=CjwKCAiAv_KMBhAzEiwAs-rX1LmZwop5gjPIz1BxVXHqjse3TD3nH9KqvnzhoAUdNVuHnin_wQmzXRoCu3oQAvD_BwE"><span>Atul Gawande</span></a><span> at The New Yorker Festival to talk about the new album, the lessons of </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/tag/coronavirus"><span>living through a pandemic</span></a><span>, and how liberated she felt when she broke her ties with major record labels. “When you’re at a record label and you’re trying to ascertain whether something can be a hit or a single, you listen in a different way—and then everything sounds like garbage,” she said. Mann decided that she didn’t “want to keep baring my soul to people who hate everything I’m doing.” </span></p><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>