Eat, Pray, Podcast

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Eat, Pray, Podcast

Kat Rosenfield

Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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Leigh Stein

Jun 21, 2023

Kat and Phoebe are joined by friend and favorite Leigh Stein to discuss bad advice, self-cancelled books, and the accessories of the middle-aged.

Links:

Roxane Gay's less-than-sound advice: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/18/business/roxane-gay-lgbtq-work.html

Leigh on the bad precedent: https://unherd.com/thepost/elizabeth-gilberts-self-cancellation-sets-a-dangerous-precedent/

Kat on the hostage-video vibe:

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Eat, Pray, Cringe

Following a backlash so mild it hadn’t even cracked Twitter, Elizabeth Gilbert, the bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love, initiated a dramatic, public self-cancellation, and removed her latest ‘offending’ work from publication. The crime? Her unreleased novel, which followed a family’s struggle against Soviet communism in the 1930s, was set in Russia, …

a year ago · 160 likes · 34 comments · Kat Rosenfield

Phoebe on Ukrainians as marginalized-or-not: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-eat-pray-cancel-why-is-elizabeth-gilbert-censoring-herself/

Jordan Peterson's fashion DON'Ts:

https://twitter.com/dieworkwear/status/1670691291418750976

Henry VIII's fashion DOs:

https://www.historyextra.com/period/tudor/how-big-king-henry-viiis-codpiece/

Ilya Kaminsky's poetry:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91413/we-lived-happily-during-the-war

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Feminine Chaos

Problematic faves, dissident feminism, and poodle interruptions: this is Feminine Chaos, featuring cultural commentary from Phoebe Maltz Bovy and Kat Rosenfield.

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