Feuds!

I was a little whiskey tipsy during this episode! I think I said Didion had a son—which she does not. She had an adopted daughter only. Anyway, we also discuss juicy feuds: Norman Mailer v. Gore Vidal, Frost v. Stevens, Peck v. Moody, Ford v. Whitehead, Byatt v. Drabble, Didion v. Babitz, and also Ann Manov, Lauren Oyler, Jia Tolentino, Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays, The Year of Magical Thinking, Ross Barkan’s article on Dad Lit, Dante, “Goodbye to All That,” leaving New York, WASPs v. Jews, dudes v. broads, 1960s abortions, Hemingway, Valium, OJ Simpson and other current events.

Loss, death, grief, alcoholism, Candy Crush, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Kenneth Lonergan, Margaret, marketing departments, socialists debating libertarians, libertarianism and how failed and annoying it is, masculinity, Lonesome Dove, universality, true stories about African Muslims who love Bukowski and Updike, putting b****y vengeful snipes and jabs into your writing, and our autumnally appropriate closing poem and music are “Spring to Fall” by Gerard Manley Hopkins and Chopin’s Berceuse Op. 57 in D-flat major.