Book Club: Leave the World Behind
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Rumaan Alam’s apocalyptic, domestic thriller published in 2020 is only more unsettling today, which might make it the perfect time for the upcoming Netflix adaptation. Plus, a look ahead at festival season thanks to our first-look features on All of Us Strangers, Foe, Fingernails, and many more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the award season podcast from Vanity Fair. |
| 0:05.0 | I am delighted and proud to introduce him as Academy Award winner. |
| 0:11.0 | And the Oscar goes to... |
| 0:13.0 | And the Oscar goes to... |
| 0:15.0 | The winner, it's a tie! |
| 0:19.0 | And any little girl who's practicing their speech on the telly, you never know! |
| 0:25.0 | Mom, I just want an Oscar! |
| 0:37.0 | I am Katie Rich. I'm here with Richard Lawson. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello. |
| 0:40.0 | With David Canfield. |
| 0:41.0 | Hello. |
| 0:42.0 | And with Rebecca Ford. |
| 0:43.0 | Hi. |
| 0:44.0 | We're getting to the end of August, which means we are at the end of our August long book club series. |
| 0:48.0 | It's been a real treat. |
| 0:49.0 | We are closing it out with Vermont Alums Leaf the World behind, which is going to be a movie on Netflix later this fall. |
| 0:55.0 | But before that, we're also heading into festival season. |
| 0:58.0 | And you know we all get very excited about this. |
| 1:00.0 | We have a really incredible lineup of first looks running on vf.com in the past week, this week, and the following. |
| 1:07.0 | Some of them have run and some of them have not, so we'll still be keeping some secrets. |
| 1:11.0 | But to kind of tear ourselves up for fall festival season, by the time we talk next week, |
| 1:15.0 | the other three of you will be on your way to various Labor Day weekend festivals. |
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