ICYMI - We May Have A New Bad Art Friend
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🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Candice Lim is joined by Slate culture writer Nadira Goffe to break down the BookTok drama surrounding Old Enough by Haley Jakobson. Last year, Old Enough hit the shelves as a queer, coming-of-age novel about a sophomore in college named Sav and her ex-best friend, Izzie. A year later, a guest of Lucie Fink’s podcast The Real Stuff claimed she was allegedly the basis for Izzie and that her childhood was “plagarized” for the novel — from her experience with sexual assault to sensitive details about her family. On today’s episode, ICYMI asks how this BookTok drama became the “Bad Art Friend” of 2024 and where the lines should be drawn when it comes to using the trauma of others to sell a book.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey listeners, quick warning. This episode does contain discussion of sexual assault. Hey, I'm Candice Lim. And I'm Naderagoff, and you're listening to ICYMI. In case you missed it. |
| 0:25.5 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. And Nadera, what was the biggest news of the |
| 0:30.9 | weekend for you? The biggest news of the weekend for me, which I feel like |
| 0:34.9 | slipped under the radar in the grand scheme of things, interestingly enough, is the news |
| 0:39.8 | that Kendrick Lamar is going to be the next Super Bowl halftime performer. |
| 0:44.0 | And you know, I just want to know if there's an over under going on on how many times he's |
| 0:50.0 | going to perform not like us. I think at least twice right? Yeah I feel like he |
| 0:59.0 | might do the thing that he did in his concert where he restarts it well I |
| 1:02.2 | guess he did play it in full but he might do a thing where he restarts it. Well I guess he did play it in full. But he might do a thing where he |
| 1:04.8 | restarts it where he's like, y'all weren't loud enough the first time I'm gonna need you to, you know? But I don't know. I guess we'll see. I'm also putting bets that he'll play All Right, All the Stars, and Humble. |
| 1:17.0 | But I don't know exactly which song he'll start off with. |
| 1:20.6 | So I'm still kind of pondering that. |
| 1:22.3 | Yeah, I think you're right. |
| 1:23.0 | That did go under the radar a little bit, |
| 1:25.2 | but it was a fun announcement that dropped this weekend. |
| 1:27.8 | I would like to talk about our weekends now, |
| 1:30.3 | you know, our little corners of the world. |
| 1:32.3 | Yeah, what'd you do? |
| 1:33.2 | Well, I'm in LA, and we did just endear like a pretty bad heat wave. |
| 1:37.2 | We're talking like multiple days, over 100 degree weather, it's hot, I stayed inside, as one should should and I did indeed binge watch the eighth season of |
| 1:46.4 | selling sunset all in two days because I am an athlete of the dramatic arts and |
| 1:50.5 | I'm going to summarize this season in six words, okay? |
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