How to Be FamousChrono Trigger

Hosted by Michael Collins and Emily Gushue Whalen

Emily found Caitlin Moran’s How to Be Famous to be both hilarious and politically necessary. Michael went on a 16-bit nostalgia binge with Michael P. Williams’s Chrono Trigger. They talk about bad sex in the #metoo era, the art of translation, persistence in the face of catastrophe, and burning out on reading.

1. How to Be Famous / Chrono Trigger.

Dear Reader Emily found Caitlin Moran’s How to Be Famous to be both hilarious and politically necessary. Michael went on a 16-bit nostalgia binge with Michael P. Wilson’s Chrono Trigger. More episodes

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Show Notes.

How to Be Famous by Caitlin Moran.

Chrono Trigger by Michael P. Williams.

Persuasion by Jane Austen.

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood.

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.