101. Ariel Levy (Writer) – Big Things That Are Not Talked About

Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

Big Think / Panoply

Arts, Society & Culture

4.6 • 594 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. Since 2015, the Think Again podcast has been taking us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives. 100 episodes in, like the universe itself, the show continues to expand and accelerate at speeds that boggle the imagination. After 12 years at New York Magazine, Ariel Levy became a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she’s written about remarkable women, sex, Ayahuasca, madness and Silvio Berlusconi. Her new book The Rules Do Not Apply is a memoir that grew out of the loss of her son soon after his birth and the subsequent collapse of her marriage. Here she talks with Jason about assertiveness and doubt, the silence around the animal facts of women's physical lives, her comically awkward experience with the shamanic hallucinogen Ayahuasca, and much more. Surprise conversation starter interview clips: Lexicographer Kory Stamper on the word 'bitch", Gish Jen on imitation in China vs. the West Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey there, I'm Jason Gots and you're listening to Think Again a Big Think podcast.
0:08.0	I started in 2008. Big Think is a kind of online think tank of big ideas from some of the most creative thinkers on the planet.
0:16.0	On the podcast, we revisit those ideas in new ways. Our producers surprised me and my guests with short interview clips from Big Things
0:23.8	Archives, ideas that we didn't necessarily come here expecting to discuss.
0:27.5	I'm very happy to be here today with Ariel Levy.
0:30.7	After 12 years at New York Magazine, Ariel became a staff writer at The New Yorker, where
0:34.9	she's written, among other things about sex, drugs, madness, feminism, and Silvio Berlusconi.
0:41.2	Her 2006 book, Female Chauvinous Pigs, looked at how the women's movement had led to a
0:46.2	point where girls gone wild was seen by some as a form of empowerment.
0:50.5	Her new book, The Rules Do Not Apply, is a memoir that grew out of the devastating loss of her child.
0:55.8	Welcome to think again.
0:56.9	Thanks.
0:58.1	It seems to me that this book is a departure.
1:02.1	It goes into new territory in terms of the things that you've written.
1:06.6	So how do you usually find your stories?
1:08.9	How have you in the past?
1:10.7	Like what makes you choose a story?
1:13.1	It's always like a frantic scramble.
1:15.2	It's always a scramble.
1:16.5	It's always like in between like there's, you.
1:19.2	Desperation.
1:19.9	Yeah.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Big Think / Panoply, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Big Think / Panoply and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.