The Quarantine Tapes: A week-day program from Onassis LA and dublab. Hosted by Paul Holdengräber, the series chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. Each day, Paul calls a guest for a brief discussion about how they are experiencing the global pandemic.

On episode 231 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Ann Magnuson. Ann is an incredibly multi-talented artist. She joins Paul to talk about her childhood growing up in West Virginia, her time in New York in the 70s and 80s, and so much more in a fascinating episode.

Ann shares her incredible gift for storytelling as she takes Paul back through her life in creativity. She describes the many inspirations and passions of her childhood and tells stories from her days at Club 57 in New York. She and Paul talk Vietnam War protests, David Bowie and Patti Smith, and so much more before turning to Ann’s quarantine web series, WTF 2020, and the dolls from her grandmother that inspired it.

Paul Holdengräber is an interviewer and curator of public curiosity. He is the Founder and Director of Onassis LA (OLA), a center for dialogue. Previously he was the Founder and Director of LIVE from the NYPL, a cultural series at the New York Public Library, where he hosted over 600 events, holding conversations with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Errol Morris to Jan Morris, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, Christopher Hitchens to Mike Tyson. He is the host of “A Phone Call From Paul,” a podcast for The Literary Hub.

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