Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads: Race, Money and Fictional Life at the University of Arkansas

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.4 • 8.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

David Plotz talks with author Kiley Reid about her new book, Come & Get It. They discuss how money can work in the same way as language, writing realistic dialogue, and the things we can’t let go of.

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0:00.0	Bob Marley, one love. In Cinemas Now. I always like a love songs. Critics are
0:10.2	raiming, a masterpiece biopic.
0:12.6	Get ready to fall in love.
0:14.4	Yeah, man, feel good!
0:16.2	Kingsley Benadir is magnetic as Bob Marley.
0:19.4	When you write that?
0:20.4	All my life.
0:21.4	Five stars, capital extra.
0:23.0	One love, one not, one destiny.
0:25.0	You dig!
0:26.0	Bob Marley, One Love.
0:28.0	In Cinemas Now.
0:29.0	Book tickets now. Welcome to Gapfest reads for February 2024. I'm David Platz, one of the hosts of
0:40.0	The Suede Political Gapfest. this way to persuade political that fest.
0:45.1	Kylie Reed's new novel Come and Get It is a funny, sneakily tense story of a college
0:50.8	dorm at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, a residential advisor and a college
0:56.6	senior named Millie Cousins strikes up a friendship, I use that term in quotes, a friendship with a visiting professor Agatha Paul
1:05.2	who wants to eavesdrop on students in the dorm
1:08.5	for an ethically dubious research project
1:11.2	that she's working on. Come and get it explores what happens when Millie and Agatha and the students in the dorm,
1:17.0	notably two young women who are sweetmates Kennedy and Tyler, or Tyler, start interacting and spying on each other and pranking each other and
1:26.4	fantasizing about each other and above all using money and the threat of money to warp
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