Much of the podcast is made out of the same stuff, Was in the water at Bennington in this period? Anolik’s Esquire piece uses excerpts from various novels and essays, as wellĪs original interviews she conducted with former students and faculty, to pursue that question. AmidĪn inflamed debate over ethical conflicts between fiction writers and the Romantic relationship she had in college Bob Kolker last week asked “ Who is the Bad Artįriend?” when one writer uses another’s kidney donation as a prompt. That Kristen Roupenian’s viral short story “Cat Person” drew on details of a
The experience of unexpectedly seeing one’s life served up asĮntertainment is frequently a disturbing one: Alexis Nowicki wrote in July of the disorienting realization Portraits of contemporaries at Bennington that the people she drew inspiration Matters is the fact that Tartt’s massively successful debut novel, The Secret History, itself contained Tread the boundary between biographical research and intrusion. Pretty original analysis of an important author’s work with speculations that Memories, and who has the right to profit by them.Īs a literary news story, this one is befuddling, combining a Unresolved questions over who owns what, when a group of people share the same Upon a Time … at Bennington College appears to address a curiously relevant set of Together, painted psychological portraits of their own generation in theirĮarly novels, and were, to varying degrees, all friends, does seem importantįor the literary historians of the future to know. Gen X authors, as far as that term has any utility: That they went to college Swapped for sunglasses.” Lethem, Ellis, and Tartt are certainly each prominent Literary history, comparing them to the Lost Generation but with “berets Mingled picturesque details of her subjects’ lives-Ellis bringing a suitcase ofĭrugs to college-with an argument for these writers’ significance in American History of Bennington: The 1980s’ Most Decadent College.” In that article, she The show, which is seven episodes deep so far, continues Anolik’sĢ019 piece for Esquire, “ The Secret Oral
Puts it on the show, “In retrospect, it’s like-why were you so fucking miserable? It was awesome.” Student body obsessed with outdoing each other at being cool and arty. No grades, a charismatic faculty, and a small In rural Vermont, Bennington was a place with This was my key takeaway from Once Upon a Time … at Bennington College, Lili Anolik’s new podcastĪbout the college years of Donna Tartt, Jonathan Lethem, and Bret EastonĮllis-all members of Bennington’s class of ’86. In the mid-1980s, life at America’s most expensive undergraduate
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