Episode Six: Other Arrangements
Join host Sara A. Lewis and OA contributor Emily Gogolak in conversation about Dilley, Texas, the small town that houses the largest immigration detention center in the country. This segment features interviews from Gogolak’s reporting, in which she investigates Dilley’s oil, smuggling, and confinement economies. Plus: Lavinia Jones Wright reads from her West Virginia reverie “Skyline Drive,” and Parker Millsap plays two songs from his latest record, Other Arrangements, live from the OA office.
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Show Notes
IN CONVERSATION
OA contributor Emily Gogolak investigates Dilley, Texas, a small town at the intersection of the oil, smuggling, and confinement industries. Dilley is home to the South Texas Family Residential Center, the largest immigration detention center in the country. This segment features interviews recorded for Gogolak’s essay “An Intersection at the End of America” from our Spring 2020 issue, available now. Emily Gogolak’s reporting was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
IN ADAPTATION
Lavinia Jones Wright reads from “Skyline Drive,” a memoir of driving the scenic byway her grandfather helped build in the 1930s.
IN SESSION
Folk rocker Parker Millsap joins us live in the OA office for stripped-down renditions of “Your Water” and “Other Arrangements,” the title track from his newest album, available now from Okrahoma Records/Thirty Tigers.
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