Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College
Description
It’s the groves of academe: Bennington College, the wildest and wickedest school in America. In the last great decade: the 1980s. Bennington class of ’86, class of Bret Easton Ellis, future writer of American Psycho and co-leader of the literary Brat Pack; Jonathan Lethem, future writer of Motherless Brooklyn and MacArthur Fellow; and Donna Tartt, future writer of The Secret History and Pulitzer Prize winner. All three are, at various times, infatuated and disappointed with one another, their friendships stimulated and fueled by rivalry as much as affection. And all three will mythologize Bennington in their fiction—fiction that, as we’ll discover, isn’t always fiction, is often fact—and thereby become myths themselves. From Vanity Fair's Lili Anolik, comes the latest installment in the Once Upon a Time… franchise, Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College. This is a tale of money, murder, madness, and—of course—genius. This is, too, a multi-dimensional expose: the secret history of The Secret History revealed; the secret history of three of the greatest writers of Generation X revealed; and the secret history of Generation X itself revealed.
Once Upon a Time at...Bennington College is an Audacy original.
This follows Season One: Once Upon a Time...in the Valley, a real-life psychological thriller about underage adult star Traci Lords.
great podcast but the amount of interviews in noisy restaurants! come on! 😀
If you didn't start catching on in earlier episodes this one makes it crystal clear that this is not an unbiased presentation of facts. It's very clearly an anti-Traci Lords story. And obviously everyone has a right to tell their side but the ridiculous leaps in logic and COMPLETE disregard for the psychology of sexual abuse survivors is very telling of the motives behind this version of events. Interesting story but I'm definitely taking with a grain of salt.
Rogers is full of shit. He told his current wife everything that made him out to be a saint. WTFE. Good gravy, everyone in this story is a victim. No one has owned their shit.
8 minute review: I think you're underestimating your listeners.. you don't need to keep saying, "read by Ashley, written by Traci.." yea. we got it. lol
I hope this ep gets fixed...it just stopped abruptly
FIRST COMMENTER Suck it 'The Everyday Bombshell' -take that anyway you want since you complain about every episode but are still here listening.
I agree with Steve. I tried listening and really wanted to like this! But having Ashley read Traci's words makes no sense (and you have to keep reminding the listener again and again that it's Traci's words, but Ashley's voice 🙄). It wasn't a good decision guys. I so wish this podcast wasn't recorded this way, such a bummer for the listener.
I had to stop listening to this because from what I listen to I get the sense that "Traci" is a pathological liar and has narcissistic personality disorder because she consistently blames other for her actions.
Okay I tried. I wanted to like this. I just can't take that Ashley guy's voice. My god it is sooo annoying. The female host is great. I want to but I can't listen to the rest of this. I hope it does well though.