The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Sentimental Garbage
Justice for Dumb Women
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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CONTENT WARNING: frequent, graphic mentions of suicide
We're back after a short break with more Covid-appropriate reading material, and what's more pandemic-y than The Virgin Suicides, a book where everyone dies and no one leaves their house. We talk about bad faith readings, Lolita, Sylvia Plath, the 'we' voice, suburbia, and Jeffrey's talent for smells.
Caroline O'Donoghue has two books out, the most recent of which is Scenes of a Graphic Nature and is available in all book shops from August 6th
Ella Risbridger is the author of Midnight Chicken and Set Me On Fire, as well as a forthcoming children's fiction series The Secret Detectives
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| 0:26.6 | Buy now in bookshops everywhere and online. Hello and welcome sentimental garbage a podcast where we currently talk about whatever book we want. |
| 0:42.0 | My name is Karno Dunoo and I'm an author and a |
| 0:44.3 | clavicle that Raywater collects in. Joining me is the writer you can dial 555 Mary to reach |
| 0:49.8 | Ella Risbriger. Hey! Hi! Hi! Good to be bad. It's been a minute. It has been a hot minute. I wish I had like some big excuses as to why we suddenly just stopped. No, do you know what it was? It was because we could go for |
| 1:04.9 | walks again. That was it. Oh my God, I hadn't even put that together. |
| 1:08.8 | Because we weren't allowed to go for walks. And we weren't just locked in our bedrooms. |
| 1:12.1 | Yeah. Very appropriately for this |
| 1:14.6 | book. This very lockdown? It is, yeah, I mean it is a book about locking people down and |
| 1:20.6 | trapping people in their homes. And being a teenage girl and yes. |
| 1:25.0 | But we'll get to it. |
| 1:26.0 | We're getting to get to it. |
| 1:28.0 | In case anyone hasn't seen by the episode title, this is The Virgin Suicides by a man which is rare on this |
| 1:34.9 | podcast but not entirely unheard of and by Jeffrey Euagenides who every time I read his |
| 1:41.8 | every time I read his last name I want to say eugenics but it is not eugenics |
| 1:45.8 | eugenitis I think so but I'm not an expert in Greek names. |
| 1:52.8 | So our experiences of this book is I picked it up the old-fashioned way |
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