TLP Interview with Avery Trufelman, Design & Fashion Podcaster

The Lonely Palette

Arts, Podcast, Art, Museum, Painting, Modern Art, Visual Arts, Art History

4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

A number of years ago, my Twitter pinged. Then it pinged again. All of a sudden, a whole host of people were following the show, and when I giddily found the source, it was the soulful and stylish Avery Trufelman, longtime 99% Invisible producer, currently of Articles of Interest, and fashionista tastemaker, who had pronounced The Lonely Palette her favorite art history podcast. Bestill my heart! It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship, a kinship between co-founders of a mutual admiration society where the stories of stuff - art, objects, design, things, everything they say you can’t put on the radio - reigned supreme. Avery and I popped into our respective closets to chat about writing, audio, art, fashion, the trappings of podcast success, storytelling in a heated political climate, trusting your voice, that infamous cerulean blue scene in The Devil Wears Prada, ranking the heroes of epic poetry, and much more.

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0:00.0	Actually, I thought you'd appreciate this. So this is the closet that I'm only in here when I record, which is not as much as I'd like. And so this is like my fancy dress closet, which of course I haven't worn anything since COVID. But I've got my wedding dress in here.
0:19.4	That's so perfect. It's also a beautiful, like, background to talk to you in front of all of your clothes.
0:24.6	That's fantastic.
0:26.9	What's in your closet?
0:32.4	I'm Avery Truffleman.
0:33.6	I'm a podcaster and the creator of Articles of Interest, a show about what we wear.
0:45.0	So you've been doing a lot of interviews lately, right?
0:48.9	Like being interviewed? Yeah. More so than I normally do. I mean, you know, normally I'm the one wielding the microphone, but...
0:56.4	Right. Yeah. I know that you and I are both getting over some illness of our own, so...
1:02.2	So, you're snorting into the microphone. So your sonorous Avery Truffleman voice is even lower, and mine is at Avery Register.
1:12.5	But I just... I feel like when I listen to your show, Articles of Interest, a show about fashion, and plumbing the depths of fashion.
1:25.5	And I think about how you and I think are both really interested in
1:32.3	stuff. Yes. Things that are expressly visual that people are like, you can't make that a radio show
1:39.9	and we're like, but what if you did? Hold my beer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, and that's what's so funny is that that is always the first question I get.
1:49.6	Whenever I'm interviewed by anybody, it's like basically, and it's, you know, I think everyone thinks they're being clever.
1:56.0	Yeah.
1:56.2	But it's like the idea that you can, first of all, that you can just take a thing and find a way to kind of make it sing in the audio medium.
2:08.9	But it's never just about the thing.
2:11.3	Yeah.
2:11.6	Obviously.
2:12.8	And I feel like you talk about that so well.
2:16.6	How did you discover this world of things? Where is your
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