Paperback Writer
Bergotte Hahn-EtcGreat Are the Myths is a novel about memory and the making of legends. Set in the shifting landscape of post-war America, it follows Birdie Darling as she grows up among a generation who believed the world was just beginning. Nearby, a young musician is quietly becoming something larger than himself — the first shape of a modern myth. This is the story of what it felt like to stand close to that m... more
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 40 | Founded | 2 months ago |
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In this episode I explore one of the quieter but deeply important structures inside Great Are the Myths: motherhood.
While the novel often focuses on myth-making, celebrity, and the cultural landscape of the 1950s, it also contains a layered network... more
In this episode I explore one of the deeper psychological layers inside Great Are the Myths: the relationship between Birdie and the boy.
At first glance their connection reads as a lifelong friendship and love story. But there is another possibilit... more
In this episode I explore Great Are the Myths from a more academic perspective, looking at the novel as a study in modern myth-making.
The 1950s were an era when new cultural myths were being created in real time: celebrity culture, Hollywood glamou... more
There is a moment near the beginning of this novel that contains, in miniature, everything the novel will spend three hundred pages unfolding.
The boy has come to visit Birdie's house for the first time. He is thirteen, working-class, new to Memphis... more
Great Are the Myths has sixty-six chapters. It also has a prologue, a section heading, a commencement, a coda, and an author’s note. But before any of that — before the first sentence, before Birdie’s voice begins — there is a title. And then another... more
-An Essay on Reading Great Are the Myths
"What if you're my imaginary friend?"
The boy asks this near the very end. They are lying side by side on sun loungers in the California desert, covered in blankets, the way they used to lie in the garden in... more
Every age creates its own myths.
In the bright, restless years of post-war America, a new kind of legend was beginning to take shape — born not in ancient stories but in music, images, and the strange machinery of fame.
Great Are the Myths follows ... more
In this episode we explore Great Are the Myths as a modern Bildungsroman — a novel of formation that charts the development of consciousness rather than simply the passage from youth to adulthood.
Drawing on the literary tradition of the Bildungsrom... more
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- A beautiful, immersive literary podcast!
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Paperback Writer is one of the most unusual and compelling storytelling podcasts I’ve come across in a long time. The first season, presenting the novel Great Are the Myths, feels less like a typical audiobook and more like stepping into a rich literary world that unfolds gradually, chapter by chapter.
The story follows Birdie, a young English girl growing up in post-war America, and it captures that moment in history when music, celebrity, politics and culture were all beginning to coll... more
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