<p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The day this episode comes out, March 26 2026, is the 115th birthday of renowned playwright Tennessee Williams. And to mark the occasion, we’re heading into the <em>Sewers </em>archives to hear my 2020 interview with writer William V. Madison, whose career was inspired in part by a moving experience in college involving a <em>Streetcar Named Desire</em>. That brought William to a series of adventurous jobs, from working on Broadway shows to producing the news alongside Dan Rather, singing to Angela Lansbury, earning a nickname from Fidel Castro, and writing <a target="_blank" href="https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/M/Madeline-Kahn">a biography of Madeline Kahn</a>.&nbsp;</p>