NB: Oops, had a little more trouble with the sound because I’m an idiot. Should be fixed on the next one.

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Waving by Traci O’Dea

– Conversations with Friends, Normal People, and Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

– The BBC adaptation of Normal People

– The Spice Girls

– Sally Rooney on the hell of fame: It doesn’t seem to work in a real way for anyone by Emma Brockes

– Normal people don’t do it like that by Amy Sankey

– Winning the Game You Didn’t Even Want to Play: On Sally Rooney and the Literature of the Pose by Stephen Marche

– Edward Albee

– The late great John Irwin

– My Identity Problem by Alan Shapiro (longer version in print edition)

– Camus!

– Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith

– Bon Voyage by Traci O’Dea

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Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith