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After Work Drinks
The Lonely Hearts Club
No, you’re not going even crazier than expected in isolation: today is Wednesday and it’s our new episode release day because we love to keep you on your toes. On the agenda, a look at infamous influencer ‘scammer’ Caroline Calloway’s response to her former best friend Natalie’s tell-all article which leads us to discuss the wider influencer industry’s movements - to the Hamptons, to be exact - during this global pandemic, resulting in the viral hashtag #covidiots. Then it’s a deep dive into dealing with loneliness during isolation: why we need to use the terms ‘connected’ and ‘unconnected’ to describe people rather than looking simply at their relationship status, whether social media contributes to or helps to combat it and how being vulnerable is the answer to helping us all feel more together (even though we’re physically not). Plus, of course, some ridiculous stories about getting too drunk off 'martinis', breaking plates (Grace, yesterday) and cups (Isabelle, aged 11).
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Recommendations:
Unorthodox (2020) on Netflix
Ozark on Netflix
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
'If you enjoyed a good book and you're a woman, the critics think you're wrong' by Jennifer Weiner in The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/24/good-books-women-readers-literary-critics-sexism
'It's Tartt - But Is It Art?' by Evgenia Peretz in Vanity Fair
https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/07/goldfinch-donna-tartt-literary-criticism
Marian Keyes on BBC's Bookclub Podcast
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fw1j
Is This The End of Influencing As We Know It? by Kenzie Bryant in Vanity Fair
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/04/influencers-coronavirus-arielle-charnas-escape-new-york
The History of Loneliness by Jill Lepore in The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/06/the-history-of-loneliness
Alain de Botton on Elizabeth Day's 'How To Fail' COVID-19 Special
https://howtofail.podbean.com/e/alain-de-botton-c19/
And this of course:
https://www.iamcarolinecalloway.com/
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