In a world where Everything Is Content - Beth McColl, Ruchira Sharma and Oenone are here to guide you through the stories that have ignited the internet each week.
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Every week, Beth, Ruchira and Oenone will delve into the biggest and splashiest pop culture culture stories, before weighing in on the conversations that they have incited online. Why are we so interested in these stories? And what does this say about us as we try to navigate life in the "real" world?
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In a world where Everything Is Content - Beth McColl, Ruchira Sharma and Oenone are here to guide you through the stories that have ignited the internet each week.
Films, viral long reads, Instagram scandals, celebrity nonsense, reality TV obsessions and TikTok trends- if you can post about it online, then we can (and will) turn it into discourse.
Every week, Beth, Ruchira and Oenone will delve into the biggest and splashiest pop culture culture stories, before weighing in on the conversations that they have incited online. Why are we so interested in these stories? And what does this say about us as we try to navigate life in the "real" world?
Get in huns, we're making content about content.
Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @EverythingIsContentPod
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Hello EICritical Thinkers & happy humping day (or whatever the saying is).
This week we're discussing the apparent mass-vanishing act of male authors, after a piece for The Guardian suggested that David Szalay's Booker win has "put masculinity back at the centre of literary fiction." Oh! Ok!
In a rebuttal for Vogue, author and friend of the podcast Eliza Clarke argues that it’s time to put this debate to bed. She writes: “Male writers still continue to dominate literary awards. They make up a large portion of our bestsellers, all the while continuing to be viewed as more worthy and deserving of critical plaudits. Bernadine Evaristo remains the only Black woman to have won a Booker Prize, ever, and she had to share that win with Margaret Atwood.”
With your help and takes we ask: is there any truth to it? And if so: what's driving women's dominion in literary fiction?
Thanks for all of your thoughts as ever! Follow us on IG @everythingiscontentpod. Love O, R, B x
Links:
Vogue - It's Time To Put The "Where Are All The Male Novelists" Debate To Bed
Compact Mag - The Vanishing White Male Writer
Current Affairs - The White Male Writer Is Fine I Promise
GQ - Why men need to read more novels
The Guardian - Do we need more male novelists?
VOX - What happened to the bestselling young white man?
Unherd - How to read like a man?
The Guardian - The truth about boys and books
Substack - The dawn of the post-literate society
Books mentioned:
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Loren Ipsum by Andrew Gallix
Flesh by David Szalay
Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
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