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What does it mean for a work to be incomplete? This hour, we look at a wide span of unfinished projects, from posthumous novels to highways to nowhere.

Guests:
Alex Belth is the editor of Esquire Classic and author of the substack “Dig This with Alex Belth”
Jacob Proctor is the Gilbert and Ann Kinney New York Collector at the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art and the curator of “Best Laid Plans: Unrealized Projects from the Archives of American Art”
Ian Coss is the host of “The Big Dig” podcast from GBH News

Music featured (in order):
Our Prayer – The Beach Boys
Unfinished House – Cautious Clay
I Want You (She’s So Heavy) – The Beatles
Wichita Lineman – Glen Campbell
The End Has No End – The Strokes
Tea for Two – Tea for Two (1950) OST

What does it mean for a work to be incomplete? This hour, we look at a wide span of unfinished projects, from posthumous novels to highways to nowhere.
Guests:
<ul>
<li>Alex Belth&nbsp;is the editor of Esquire Classic and author of the substack &ldquo;<a href="https://alexbelth.substack.com/">Dig This with Alex Belth</a>&rdquo;</li>
<li>Jacob Proctor&nbsp;is the Gilbert and Ann Kinney New York Collector at the Smithsonian Institution&rsquo;s Archives of American Art and the curator of &ldquo;Best Laid Plans: Unrealized Projects from the Archives of American Art&rdquo;</li>
<li><a href="https://iancoss.com/about">Ian Coss</a>&nbsp;is the host of &ldquo;The Big Dig&rdquo; podcast from GBH News</li>
</ul>
Music featured (in order):
<ul>
<li><a href="https://youtu.be/pHghQB4-t-4">Our Prayer</a>&nbsp;&ndash; The Beach Boys</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0ARv3YXfmw">Unfinished House</a>&nbsp;&ndash; Cautious Clay</li>
<li><a href="https://youtu.be/wNL6bd7SpDE">I Want You (She&rsquo;s So Heavy)</a>&nbsp;&ndash; The Beatles</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8P_xTBpAcY">Wichita Lineman</a>&nbsp;&ndash; Glen Campbell</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sQoX12zo-A">The End Has No End</a>&nbsp;&ndash; The Strokes</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzu-pyF7YCs">Tea for Two</a>&nbsp;&ndash; Tea for Two (1950) OST</li>
</ul>

The Colin McEnroe Show is public radio’s most eclectic, eccentric weekday program. The best way to understand us is through the subjects we tackle: Neanderthals, tambourines, handshakes, the Iliad, snacks, ringtones, punk rock, Occam’s razor, Rasputin, houseflies, zippers. Are you sensing a pattern? If so, you should probably be in treatment. On Fridays, we try to stop thinking about what kind of ringtones Neanderthals would want to have and convene a panel called The Nose for an informal roundtable about the week in culture.

<a href="https://www.ctpublic.org/show/the-colin-mcenroe-show/about">The Colin McEnroe Show</a> is public radio’s most eclectic, eccentric weekday program. The best way to understand us is through the subjects we tackle: Neanderthals, tambourines, handshakes, the Iliad, snacks, ringtones, punk rock, Occam’s razor, Rasputin, houseflies, zippers. Are you sensing a pattern? If so, you should probably be in treatment. On Fridays, we try to stop thinking about what kind of ringtones Neanderthals would want to have and convene a panel called <a href="https://www.ctpublic.org/tags/the-nose">The Nose</a> for an informal roundtable about the week in culture.