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Episode 289 — Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

Episode 289 — Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

FromOtherppl with Brad Listi


Episode 289 — Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

FromOtherppl with Brad Listi

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Length:
82 minutes
Released:
Jun 25, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore is the guest. Her new novel, Bittersweet, is now available from Crown. It is a New York Times bestseller and the official June selection of The TNB Book Club.
Entertainment Weekly says
“What begins a little like Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep quickly warps into a sickly addictive thriller…think ABC’s Revenge when it was good, only more scandalous…With books like Bittersweet to stuff in beach bags, it’s beginning to feel a lot more like summer."
And The New York Times Book Review says
"A fairy tale aspect—of the Grimm, not the Disney variety—pervades the novel, which artfully builds an increasing sense of menace…Like a Downton-in-Vermont, Bittersweet takes swift, implausible plot turns, and its family secrets flow like a bottomless magnum of champagne, but Beverly-Whittemore succeeds in shining a light into the dark, brutal flaws of the human heart.”
Monologue topics:  success, competition, ego, Vanity Fair, The Last Magazine.  
 
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Released:
Jun 25, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode

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