Marina Hyde

The pages haven't been cut.

And so he sees things.

And in some way, he's like a sort of analogue.

for Nick Carraway he's also the only other person who goes to the funeral and I just find him fascinating you don't know much about him but he's he could see through it all as well and maybe because actually Nick Carraway is much more involved as you know how that character is you're not quite sure how complicit is he is in lots of these things our lives I think would be interesting

But then because I recently reread The Secret History because I wanted to listen to The Book Club, our fellow Goldhanger podcast, The Book Club's episode on it, which was brilliant.

And I reread it and I thought, there is a character in that, which you will probably remember.

She's called Judy Poovey.

She's kind of maddening and very annoying.

She's also Californian.

But she's sort of like a comic foil, really, in some ways.

She's a costume design major.

Eye roll.

Okay.

But actually, there's a really interesting sidebar on that, which I'm going to get to in a second.

Because there was a costume.

There was only one costume design major at Bennington when Donna Tartt went there.

And she was someone called Michelle Matlin.

I don't think she's... Anyway, she ended up being the costume designer on Succession.

And so many people have said, I'm so sorry, this is barely disguised at all.

Judy Peevey is her, whatever.