Podcasts

Yes, I have entered the world of podcasts and I want to recommend two that are appropriate to the issues I cover in this blog.

The first podcast I've listened to is "Lolita Podcast" by Jamie Loftus, which was recommended by Phoebe Lett in The New York Times.  Nine out of ten episodes have been broadcast so far and Loftus covers Vladimir Nabokov's book and its social implications thoroughly, emphasizing how misunderstood this book, with its unreliable predator narrator, has been.  She discusses, with intelligence and a sense of humor, the history and publication of the book and explores in detail the theatre and film versions and even the various covers of the novel.  

"Lolita Podcast" is heavily footnoted and one of its footnotes led me to Karina Longworth's podcast on the hidden side of the first one hundred years of movies "You Must Remember This."  The latest series on this podcast(which began in 2014) is "Polly Platt: The Invisible Woman."   I have written on my blog about the films of Peter Bogdanovich and Platt's important role in his first four movies.  Longworth draws on Platt's unpublished memoir (Platt died in 2011) to describe Platt's professional life from her important work on Bogdanovich's films to her attempts to establish herself as a production designer and screenwriter in the sexist Hollywood world of the 70's and 80's.