Dan Houser
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So I think that there's something amazing about, you know, Vanity Fair.
I used to love the novel, not the magazine.
Because same thing, all of life is here.
I was obsessed by them in my twenties.
Completely obsessed.
Absolutely.
And I think them as a double act is so amazing.
You know, one helped discover the other and then died first.
And then suddenly it died in, in obscurity and then was rediscovered as a genius while the other one was still alive and falling into not obscurity, but into decline.
I think it's that their relationship is itself very novelistic.
Love 1984.
Had never listened to it or read it.
And then I think I did it on Talking Book or maybe read it.
I can't remember.
During COVID.
I think I did both.
Became obsessed by it.
And it's got elements of that creeping into A Better Paradise.
But it's so good.
I hadn't realized how good it was.