Lili Anolik takes on the Gen X glory days and literary campus mythology of Bennington College in the new season of her podcast, Once Upon a Time...
Lili Anolik:in the office of his West Hollywood condo about a movie he’d scripted,The Secret History
, a novel I’d first read when I was 14, then reread probably once a year, every year, until I turned 25.had co-dedicated the book to him, and Bret said that he and Donna had been at Bennington together—then mentioned that they’d gone on a date freshman year. The date was, I’ll confess, a bit of a surprise since it was his boyfriend who, a few minutes before, had buzzed me up, but I rolled with it.
For those who are totally unfamiliar with Bennington, how would you describe the “magic sauce” of that time and place that drew you in? Art and transcendence, baby! Yes, Bret, Donna and Jonathan are major literary figures, but they’re also major cultural figures., predicted Donald Trump—name-checked in the novel 30 times!—as president of the United States. The roaring and adoring response Trump excites in the breast of Patrick Bateman foreshadowed what we saw happen with millions of MAGA supporters.
Bennington College, is the primary world, of course. You can, along with Bret Easton Ellis, steal the underpants ofafter a night of debauchery. Or you can crash one of Donna Tartt’s alcoholic “tea parties,” held in her dorm room in Franklin House., was written and published while he was at Bennington, but it’s based on experiences he had as a high school student at the Buckley School in Sherman Oaks.
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