Ira Madison III on His New Essay Collection, PURE INNOCENT FUN

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Ira Madison III on His New Essay Collection, PURE INNOCENT FUN

Madison, co-host of Crooked Media's "Keep It!" podcast, debuts with a collection of essays that analyze 1990s and 2000s pop culture--and it's among the best of its kind.

Alexander Sorondo

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Ira Madison III

Jan 28, 2025

Transcript

Last week I spoke with

Ira Madison III

, co-host of Crooked Media’s Keep It! podcast, about his new essay collection, Pure Innocent Fun.

It’s a memoir through essays; the essays are pop-culture criticism that digress into slight memoir, in the beginning, until gradually they go from analyses of Family Matters and Bring it On to personal essays.

The insights are thought provoking, the personal anecdotes are powerful, and the tone throughout is conversational, passionate, irreverent (but earnest in the right places). It’s the most enjoyable collection of ‘90s and/or early ‘00s pop culture I’ve read, and the most enjoyable collection of general nonfiction I’ve read in a few years.