ICYMI: We May Have A New Bad Art Friend

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🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 54 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. This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario and Candice Lim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were liars.
0:07.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:09.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me. When you're
0:23.0	left for dead, you want answers. We were liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:29.9	Hey listeners, quick warning. This episode does contain discussion of sexual assault.
0:48.7	Thank you. discussion of sexual assault. Hey, I'm Candice Lim.
0:50.9	And I'm Nadir Gough, and you're listening to I-CYMIMI.
0:53.9	In case you missed it. Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:57.9	And Nadira, what was the biggest news of the weekend for you?
1:01.7	The biggest news of the weekend for me, which I feel like slipped under the radar in the grand
1:06.9	scheme of things, interestingly enough, is the news that Kendrick Lamar is going to be
1:11.5	the next Super Bowl halftime performer.
1:14.0	And, you know, I just want to know if there's an over-under going on on how many times
1:19.6	he's going to perform not like us.
1:25.6	I think at least twice, right?
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