James and Alex are in the studio to discuss one of Alex's favorite eras of theatre and literary history: Tennessee Williams' life in New Orleans. Learn how the playwright came to discover himself, his sexuality, and many of his iconic characters and settings during his multiple periods spent in and just outside the French Quarter—first as an impoverished and repressed young aspiring writer, and later as the acclaimed playwright of The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire.

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