“I keep wanting to stop listening to this podcast. I don’t know Brett Ellis or Donna Tartt. I haven’t read their books. Probably never will.
I don’t like anything about any of these characters. I am not of the generation that bore them. There are dozens of people in this podcast and I have a hard time keeping them all straight. I keep forgetting who is connected to whom. But, really, I couldn’t care less about the whole lot of them. They all seem like a bunch of self-entitled pseudo-intellectual rich kid snobby brats - even the ones who don’t have any money.
But I am addicted to Lili Anolik’s storytelling. She breaks every podcast rule - too many characters, too many names, the entire story is too “inside baseball.” There’s no earthly reason to listen to this.
Except I can’t stop. It is wonderful and textured and odd and literary and yet entirely down to earth. I am loving this ride. I can’t figure out why I’m on it but I am totally gobsmacked by it. I am not one who is easily surprised, but I never saw this coming. Awesome.”
Harpoon 95 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
01/17/22