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The Stories of #MeToo

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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I May Destroy You

Vincent Beale: I had this experience of recently rereading one of my very favorite memoirs by Pamela DeBar about the life of a groupie in the 60s. And it's all told in this kind of like, because this is what happens. But with a with a shift of the dial, as you say, looking at it now, I was like, Oh my god, like these were some really rough things. He says that culture has changed his approach to characters and how he sees them later on. "I made a story for sure is like a treatise on trauma," writes Beale.

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