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Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College

Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College


Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College

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29 episodes
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English
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Podcast

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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.
Language:
English
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Podcast

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Presenting Gone South Season 3: The Sign Cutter

On September 3, 2018, a rancher in Laredo, Texas, discovered a woman’s body shot execut...

2 minutes
Oct 23, 2023

S2 | Ep 14: It Was Like I Went Where I Failed To Go

1994 to the present day. Jonathan Lethem comes from behind. And just whose world are we...

62 minutes
Dec 08, 2021

S2 | Ep 13: The Farmer’s Granddaughter

Cambridge, Massachusetts and New York, New York. Spring of 1986 to Fall of 1994. The Se...

61 minutes
Dec 01, 2021

S2 | Ep 12: Sensational Sensationalism

New York City. Spring of 1987 to Spring of 1991. Patrick Bateman is born. To learn mo...

64 minutes
Nov 24, 2021

S2 | Ep 11: Disturbing Michiko Kakutani

Bennington and New York City. Autumn, 1985-spring, 1986. Less Than Zero is published an...

57 minutes
Nov 17, 2021

S2 | Ep 10: An Impossible Shade of Green

Bennington. Autumn, 1983-Spring, 1986. Donna begins The Secret History. Donna throws te...

54 minutes
Nov 10, 2021

S2 | Ep 9: Entering Into the Sublime

Bennington. Spring, 1983. Donna Tartt becomes “Donna Tartt.” Jonathan Lethem becomes an...

58 minutes
Nov 03, 2021

S2 | Ep 8: Murder By Numbers

Bennington. Spring, 1983-Spring, 1985. Bret lives The Rules of Attraction, then sells L...

52 minutes
Oct 27, 2021

S2 | Ep 7: Donna Lou

Mississippi, 1963-1982. Donna’s origin story. And Lord Jim... revealed? To learn more...

60 minutes
Oct 20, 2021

S2 | Ep 6: Mississippi Chippy

Winter, 1982-1983. Over Non-Resident term, Donna gets closer to Jonathan, and becomes P...

60 minutes
Oct 13, 2021