Vulture

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Do you think the 34, Alonzo, in that Vulture article, do you think that's, that's the, the number?

Uh, you know, I, I mean, that number had been bandied about before-

Bandied

It just makes you feel house proud.

So I was looking at Vulture magazine and they have this really great feature called the Maria Bamford questionnaire where they ask this list of questions that you came up with.

They present the questions to kind of famous or noteworthy people.

And these questions are so probing and insightful and like disarming and all the things that I'm incapable of doing as allegedly a professional interviewer.

And this week, critically acclaimed debut novelist Jessica Goldstein spoke with us about her career path from teen mag intern to freelance culture writer, time travel, and her nostalgic debut, Retro.

Jessica's a journalist, humorist, and longtime editor for Vulture, where she's recapped Emily in Paris, Hacks, Wednesday, and The White Lotus.

Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Marie Claire, McSweeney's, and more.

Her highly anticipated debut, Retro, is described as Party Down meets one of those great George Saunders short stories about how weird and dystopian work is.

I write for The New York Times.

I write for Marie Claire.

I write all these Vulture recaps.

If you've been following Emily in Paris, that's me, following her as well until my brain melts out of my ears.

in 2025 she was selected for a solo presentation at the art fair in boulogne and kiwa is exhibited at mindy solomon gallery chart fergus mcafree terry goldberg montiate ortega gasse projects call gallery and other venues in the u.s europe and asia she was nominated for the sovereign asian art prize in 2018 and was named one of our cubes discovery's top 100 early career artists for 2324.

Her work has been featured in Art Forum, Artsy, Art Tribune, New American Paintings, Two Coats of Paint, Vulture, Asian Art News, and Harper's Bazaar, amongst other publications.

Her paintings are held in the Morgan Stanley Art Collection and private collections internationally.

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So what I remember from the job, like sort of like press cycle too, was I remember this Vulture article and it was like, you know, Max, like the tech bro friendly playwright.

What a headline.

Nightmare.

dude.

Like you're making the world less livable for all of us.

The thing with that Vulture article and where that quote was taken and that whole framing was taken brutally out of context was I was saying like, we have to rob these people.

Like we have to like, you know, Carnegie Hall is based on a real guy.

Even the types of contents that once drove influencing and brought these people to fame are now out of date and out of touch.

Vulture did an article on this about a month ago.

It was titled, You Can't Just Be Showing Matcha Pilates Aloe.

Lifestyle influencers used to post cute photos and make millions.

Now they have to pivot.

Now, in this article from Vulture, they walk through the evolving content strategies of a well known influencer.

Her name is Audrey Peters, and Audrey is just constantly adapting to try to keep up with views and what is being prioritized in the algorithm, and it is seriously so d- ... dystopian.

Listen to this.

And as listeners around the country kinda digest your series, including, you know, folks like podcast critics, which is a thing now, they seem to really like that you upended stereotypes of the South.

Vulture called it, "A story that complicates lazy caricatures of life in rural red state America." So, uh, l- let's actually listen to a couple of minutes here from episode one.

What people commonly think about Jackson County, they think we're all backwoods, hateful, racist, and, "Oh, he's from Jackson County." Like, it carries something around here.

Ryan Allen, the guy with the inquisitive mind and the metal detector, had also watched the report and felt an odd combo of emotions.