Leon Neyfakh
Leon Neyfakh is the host of Fiasco, the co-host of Think Twice: Michael Jackson and Backfired: Attention Deficit, and the co-creator, along with executive producer Andrew Parsons, of Slow Burn.…
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“I wrestle with: Was it courage, or was it cowardice?”
This question animates a memorial service for Michael and Petra, held several months after their death. Alice and Leon want to understand it as well: Was Michael and Petra’s suicide a move toward something, or away from something else? To figure it out, they reach out to Michael and Petra’s families, to find out what examples they had from their own parents’ end-of-life experiences that might have led them to this choice.
The Hosts
Alice Gregory
Alice Gregory is a journalist and critic for publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, and n+1. She has…
Katy Hessel
Katy Hessel, host of Death of an Artist: Krasner & Pollock, is an art historian, author, curator and broadcaster. Through her The Great Women Artists Podcast and Instagram account, which foreground women…
Helen Molesworth
Helen Molesworth, host of Death of an Artist Season 1, is a writer and a curator based in Los Angeles. She is the host of David Zwirner’s PROGRAM, a video interview…
