In our final episode of the season, we’re in New York City with one of the greats, Edith Wharton and her novel The Custom of the Country. We talk being frenemies with Henry James, half-assed ghosts, and why TCotC is a straight-up bop.

Books Mentioned: Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome, The Reef; Hermione Lee, Edith Wharton.

Resources:

• Dearest Edith (1929 New Yorker profile)
• Edith Wharton - Hermione Lee - Books - Review (Claire Messud, NYT)
• REWORKING WHARTON (John Updike, New Yorker)
• A Rooting Interest (Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker)
• The Jia Treatment (Jia Tolentino, New Yorker)
• Edith Wharton's Houses (Alexandra Lange, New Yorker)
• Ghost Tour of the Mount (J. Nicole Jones, Paris Review)
• Ghost Hunters (Full ep)
• Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, and a Case of Anxiety of Influence (John Colapinto, New Yorker)