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The B.E.E. Podcast - 1/25/19 - Jay McInerney - SILVER

🕑 Added 2019-01-25 19:05:58 +0000 UTC

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Seneca Garcia

I was notified that I made the final round for consideration for soft skull press last October - but it fell through :(

Louis Norton

Any luck with your novel?

Seneca Garcia

Yeah, I been working for 4 years on the Bright Lights Big City of the skateboard culture set - the great American skateboard novel (Jay was the reason I became a writer) - hopefully XXX press doesn’t pan it and I’m hopelessly waiting — he says though, that he doubts there could now be a cultural novel with a three year lapse delivering something au courant — well I’m pretty confident I’ve written the great American skate novel (something that does not exist) I just fear some milquetoast grad student on the east coast with better connections beats me, with their prosaic prose — love this episode, Jay is a goat 2 me

Jett

Regarding the conversation at the end of white male privilege, many white males grow up dirt poor so the participants of this conversation are making huge assumptions based on their singular experiences.

Evan Disser

None of your podcasts will play. Please fix

Michael MacGowan

Great episode. It can’t be easy, interviewing someone you’ve known for decades, but this was lively and illuminating. It would have been fun to hear what you two thought about seeing your work become unlikely stage musicals.

Ant

Home run. All the writer episodes have been near perfect but this was one was completely unguarded & often hilarious. Karyn Kusama episode is still my personal fav (the monologue edged this one out) but this was up there. 100 more please!!

Brent Minder

: Programme Bee : ♫ 1. 0:52 - 25:35 Monologue: inclusion & diversity in the Oscars, ideology vs aesthetics, "Black Panther", Golden Globes, Glenn Close gesture, "A Star Is Born", "Green Book", merit vs representation, ?"Green Room" (20:57-59)? [he meant: "Green Book"], "Roma", controversies ♫ 2. 26:05 - 56:52 Intro: 100th episode, Bret's bio of guest, friend, and American novelist Jay McInerney; Interview (28:33); Calloway trilogy, "Bright Lights, Big City", parenting & kids, literature & poetry (49:30), Catholicism (55:00), ♫ 3. 57:29 - 1:41:10 More Jay McInerney: Grad party with A-listers (1:04), Today Show (1:08), fame (1:11), "Let's talk about drugs" (1:31), Carrot Top (1:37), ♫ 4. 1:41:43 - 2:05:24 More Jay: "Cathedral", writing, novelists, editing (1:50), "Imperial Bedrooms", humor in literature (2:00), Franzen, Foster Wallace (2:02), ♫ 5. 2:06:04 - 2:28:45 Final Jay: Edith Wharton, "The House of Mirth", and narcissism & entitlement of today's readers; white priveleged males (2:14), representation vs merit in art, NYC (2:20), Eagles?, Adam's questions (2:23) ♫

Erik

This was a solid mix of subjects, past and future. Keep going

Michael Walsh

Worth it for the Edith Wharton discussion. NB: if you feel you aren't threatened by the 'social justice' mob, maybe it's because you're part of it.

Jeremy Padow

Gen X squared. Love it.

Phoenix

Lunar Park's Halloween party scene has come to life. 🤯🙌 It doesn't get much better than this.

Sam Willis

100%!!

Matthew Brown

This episode was solid gold.

Billy Vega

Amazing. Loved when Jay brought up Hemingway in the 'all great writers need humour' discussion. It's always more interesting when Bret's viewpoints are intelligently challenged

Asa Oliver Skinner

Boy is this a strong contender for best Patreon BEEP so far.

Maxwell

Came here to ask this. I tried my best searching the internet but no luck

Darko Miletic

Hi Bret. Doing god's work here. I do have one small request. Could you please add metadata to your audio files? At least episode title, genre and author name. It would make listening and organisation for me much easier. Thanks.