Sid talks with Henry Sussman, one of the country’s most eminent scholars and teachers, who has used his study of literature and culture to put in context his political commentary, as in The Great Dismissal: Memoir of the Cultural Demolition Derby, 2015-2021. October 2023 saw the premier of Henry’s play Soiree at Walter Benjamin’s at the New York Theatre Festival. And if this weren’t enough, his debut collection of poetry “Polaroids of Turbulence” was published by BlazeVOX Books in 2024. One has called his poetry “allusive, ornate, beautiful and complex, and rich as my mother’s vegetable soup.”