Hannah Rosen

literary citizen you're trying to understand like what serious things are and how grown-ups write and i thought like this is literature like this is hilarious you know like it was such a freeing revelation to realize that someone could write in such a funny way about such insane ridiculous So then I went down that train. I was reading John Cheever and Saul Bellow and all the Philip Roth novels.

And I just kind of, like, imbibed the notion. Not that those were, like, specific. Like, what I wish I had done was read them and think, oh, this is the specific perspective of a specific kind of man at a specific kind of period. And that would have been amazing because they're, you know, so many of them are incredible and so beautifully written. Instead, I think I absorbed them as...

And I just kind of, like, imbibed the notion. Not that those were, like, specific. Like, what I wish I had done was read them and think, oh, this is the specific perspective of a specific kind of man at a specific kind of period. And that would have been amazing because they're, you know, so many of them are incredible and so beautifully written. Instead, I think I absorbed them as...

And I just kind of, like, imbibed the notion. Not that those were, like, specific. Like, what I wish I had done was read them and think, oh, this is the specific perspective of a specific kind of man at a specific kind of period. And that would have been amazing because they're, you know, so many of them are incredible and so beautifully written. Instead, I think I absorbed them as...

this is what great literature is. This is the universal perspective. This is not like a specifically male perspective. It's just the universal perspective. And if you've ever read those novels, the women are kind of flat, shall we say, two-dimensional, like, their inner life doesn't matter as much, you know? And so I feel like it took me a long time to work through that.

this is what great literature is. This is the universal perspective. This is not like a specifically male perspective. It's just the universal perspective. And if you've ever read those novels, the women are kind of flat, shall we say, two-dimensional, like, their inner life doesn't matter as much, you know? And so I feel like it took me a long time to work through that.

this is what great literature is. This is the universal perspective. This is not like a specifically male perspective. It's just the universal perspective. And if you've ever read those novels, the women are kind of flat, shall we say, two-dimensional, like, their inner life doesn't matter as much, you know? And so I feel like it took me a long time to work through that.

Like, I went back and back again to those novels, and it took sort of over the decades, like, I started to tune into how the female characters were portrayed, and I started to understand it more as like a singular perspective and not a universal perspective and it just took me forever to kind of work through you know what it meant to have imprinted that as the things that matter at a young age.

Like, I went back and back again to those novels, and it took sort of over the decades, like, I started to tune into how the female characters were portrayed, and I started to understand it more as like a singular perspective and not a universal perspective and it just took me forever to kind of work through you know what it meant to have imprinted that as the things that matter at a young age.

Like, I went back and back again to those novels, and it took sort of over the decades, like, I started to tune into how the female characters were portrayed, and I started to understand it more as like a singular perspective and not a universal perspective and it just took me forever to kind of work through you know what it meant to have imprinted that as the things that matter at a young age.

Now it's been many decades and I read many, many great female novelists, so many that I can hardly name them. And even of that era, like Renata Adler, and I was glad to have added that. But I was left with this feeling like I wish that instead of picking up Philip Roth's

Now it's been many decades and I read many, many great female novelists, so many that I can hardly name them. And even of that era, like Renata Adler, and I was glad to have added that. But I was left with this feeling like I wish that instead of picking up Philip Roth's

Now it's been many decades and I read many, many great female novelists, so many that I can hardly name them. And even of that era, like Renata Adler, and I was glad to have added that. But I was left with this feeling like I wish that instead of picking up Philip Roth's

I had picked up like Virginia Woolf at that moment when I was so impressionable because it's just hard to, it's just hard to shake those, like these imprints that you have at that age are so impressionable. I'm Hannah Rosen, and I'm the host of Radio Atlantic. That, of course, was my contribution, but we have many more, so many, in fact, that we're going to let this run into the holiday break.

I had picked up like Virginia Woolf at that moment when I was so impressionable because it's just hard to, it's just hard to shake those, like these imprints that you have at that age are so impressionable. I'm Hannah Rosen, and I'm the host of Radio Atlantic. That, of course, was my contribution, but we have many more, so many, in fact, that we're going to let this run into the holiday break.

I had picked up like Virginia Woolf at that moment when I was so impressionable because it's just hard to, it's just hard to shake those, like these imprints that you have at that age are so impressionable. I'm Hannah Rosen, and I'm the host of Radio Atlantic. That, of course, was my contribution, but we have many more, so many, in fact, that we're going to let this run into the holiday break.

Next week's episode will include more Atlantic writers, as well as you, members of our audience who shared your thoughts and memories about books that you read in high school. This episode was produced by Kevin Townsend, edited by Claudina Bade, Rob Smirciak engineered, and Catherine Hu fact-checked.

Next week's episode will include more Atlantic writers, as well as you, members of our audience who shared your thoughts and memories about books that you read in high school. This episode was produced by Kevin Townsend, edited by Claudina Bade, Rob Smirciak engineered, and Catherine Hu fact-checked.

Next week's episode will include more Atlantic writers, as well as you, members of our audience who shared your thoughts and memories about books that you read in high school. This episode was produced by Kevin Townsend, edited by Claudina Bade, Rob Smirciak engineered, and Catherine Hu fact-checked.

Claudina Bade is the executive producer of Atlantic Audio, and Andrea Valdez is our managing editor. I'm Hannah Rosen. Thank you for listening, have a wonderful holiday, and enjoy a good book, no matter what age you are.