Paperback Writer - GREAT ARE THE MYTHS
BergotteGreat 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 | 43 | Founded | 4 months ago |
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Behind the Curtain of Great Are the Myths
Episode: Freedom, Capitalism, and the American Dream
In this episode of Behind the Curtain of Great Are the Myths, we explore one of the novel’s most important underlying themes: freedom and the complicated ... more
Behind the Curtain of Great Are the Myths
Episode 11: Beauty, Surface, and the Politics of Appearance
In this episode of Behind the Curtain of Great Are the Myths, we explore how beauty functions as one of the novel’s most powerful and complicated t... more
In Episode 10 of Behind the Curtain of Great Are the Myths, we explore why Elvis Presley stands at the centre of the novel’s exploration of myth-making and modern fame.
Rather than portraying the real Elvis biographically, the novel uses a fictional... 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
Memphis, Miss Porter’s, Bryn Mawr, New York, Los Angeles, and the Desert
One of the most striking features of Great Are the Myths is that America in the novel is never merely a setting. It functions as a symbolic landscape. Each major location carri... more
In this episode we explore the symbolic meaning of Birdie’s white Memphis house — the emotional centre of Great Are the Myths. From Birdie’s description of the house as her Avalon and Shangri-La in the chapter Welcome to My World, to its echoes of Ca... more
In this episode we explore Birdie’s role as the witness and interpreter of myth within Great Are the Myths. Like literary observers such as Nick Carraway, Ishmael, and the narrator of Proust, Birdie stands close to the formation of cultural myth whil... more
In Episode 5 of the series Behind the Curtain of Great Are the Myths, we explore one of the most defining layers of the novel: its deeply romantic tone.
Why is the romance in Great Are the Myths so lush, emotional, and persistent? Why does it unfold... more
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- A beautiful, immersive literary podcast!
★★★★★
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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