In the first of our summer readings, Terry Castle reads her 2005 piece about her “on-again, off-again, semi-friendship” with Susan Sontag. She remembers Sontag as a “great comic character”: a high-minded hobnobber, a moralist and a gossip, seductive and snobbish and a catalytic force for modern feminism.
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Dec 2021
Cancel Culture, Cheating Men, & The Character Development of Billie Eilish
Listen to the full episode of Culture Vulture on Apple Podcasts here. Or on Spotify here. FILL OUT OUR SURVEY BESTIES!SO MANY CHEATING MEN THIS WEEK! We start off by discussing 'The Lovely Bones' author Alice Sebold's apology to Anthony Broadwater, the man who was falsely convict ... Show More
31m 48s
Jun 2023
Best of: A new philosophy of love
Sean Illing talks with Carrie Jenkins about her new book Sad Love, and her call to rethink the shape and boundaries of romantic love. In this far-ranging discussion about the meaning of romantic love, Sean and Carrie discuss the connection between love and happiness, what we shou ... Show More
59m 1s
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Help me love reading again | Ask a Book Critic
A listener asks for help with getting out of a reading rut. A voracious reader as a child, they now need some help falling in love with reading again. Vox Book Critic Constance Grady recommends big, grab-you-by-the-throat books to help us all rediscover our love of reading. Plus, ... Show More
10m 35s
Apr 2024
Camille Lellouche, Dépasser ses traumatismes pour mieux se relever
<p>Elle est chanteuse, comédienne, humoriste, le moins qu’on puisse dire c’est que mon invitée de cette semaine est une artiste complète : il s’agit de Camille Lellouche.</p><p>Révélée par le concours The Voice et ses vidéos humoristiques sur les réseaux sociaux elle est la premi ... Show More
1h 4m
May 2024
Book Club Meets: Career pivots, true crime, and 70s nostalgia, with Jennie Godfrey
<p>Would you choose uncertainty over unhappiness? Happy Place Book Club novel, The List of Suspicious Things, is the first book Jennie Godfrey has written. She was working in a corporate job before she had a moment of clarity and quit her job with no plan B to become a writer.</p ... Show More
27m 1s