Book Club: White Noise
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
After 15 years of failed attempts, Noah Baumbach will be the one to bring Don Delillo's landmark 1985 novel to the big screen. So what to expect? Katey Rich, Rebecca Ford, and HIllary Busis dive into the social satire that inspired a thousand imitators, but remains surprisingly effective— and darkly funny.
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| 0:01.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the award season podcast from Vanity Fair. |
| 0:05.0 | It's such an honor to present this next award. |
| 0:08.0 | And here are the nominees. |
| 0:09.0 | And the Oscar goes to. |
| 0:12.0 | And the Oscar goes to. |
| 0:14.0 | And I can't deny the fact that you like me right now. |
| 0:18.0 | You like me. |
| 0:20.0 | On the King of the World! |
| 0:22.0 | There's a mistake. |
| 0:23.0 | Moonlight, you guys won Best Picture. |
| 0:31.0 | I am Katie Rich and I'm here for what is usually an interview episode. |
| 0:40.0 | But it's not this week because we are going to bring our final installment of our August book club and give it its own episode to discuss white noise. |
| 0:48.0 | The Don DeLillo book that I think is the only one in the series that we've covered this month that has been declared to be unadaptable, |
| 0:54.0 | though I haven't been able to figure out who has claimed that. |
| 0:57.0 | We can talk about why you might say such a thing. |
| 1:00.0 | And joining me is Rebecca Ford. |
| 1:02.0 | Okay. |
| 1:03.0 | And Hillary Bezos. |
| 1:04.0 | Hello. |
| 1:05.0 | When we switched from covering Killers of the Flower Moon, which had been in the lineup for our fourth book to this because Killers is delayed till next year, |
| 1:12.0 | I felt kind of intimidated by it. |
| 1:14.0 | And Hillary, you're like, I've read it before I read it again. |
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