Dale gains a greater understanding of the outer reaches of Queens in this conversation with author, storyteller, and the pride of Broad Channel, Tara Clancy. Tara is a fifth-generation New Yorker who grew up shuttling between her family’s modest homes in Queens and the wealthy enclaves of Bridgehampton, Long Island. In her new memoir The Clancys of Queens, she describes her unique experience with the class divide and honors some of the more outrageous characters of her extended family. Dale and Tara find common ground over their working class roots and panicked visits to the delivery room. Throughout the conversation, Tara reflects on the role of grandparents, truth in storytelling, unsafe junkyard playgrounds, and the unheralded role of working class women in New York.
Tara Clancy is a Moth GrandSlam winner and frequent host of that show’s live events across the country. Clancy has been featured on programs such as NPR’s Snap Judgement, Risk!, and The Story Collider, with writing published in The New York Times, The Paris Review Daily, The New York Times Magazine, and The Rumpus. For more on Tara please visit her website taraclancy.com. To pre-order or purchase her book, The Clancys of Queens, find it on amazon.com or at your local bookseller.
Photo in post by Allison Evans.
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