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Paperback Writer

Hosted by Bergotte Hahn-Etc · 🇺🇸 us · EN · 39 episodes

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39
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About this podcast

Great 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 moment.New episodes weekly. Start with episode 1 to follow the story chapter by chapter.

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Bergotte Hahn-Etc hosts Paperback Writer, a fiction show with 39 episodes published.

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Behind the Curtain of Great Are the Myths — Episode 9: The Novel as a Modern Bildungsroman

May 30, 202610mEp. 39S1

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

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Behind the Curtain of Great Are the Myths Episode: 8 America as Mythological Landscape

May 23, 202613mEp. 38S1

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 landsca

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Behind the Curtain of Great Are the Myths Episode 7: The Mythology of the Memphis Mansion

May 16, 202610mEp. 37S1

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 t

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Behind the Curtain of Great Are the Myths — Episode 6: Birdie as the Interpreter of Myth

May 9, 20267mEp. 36S1

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

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Behind the Curtain of Great Are the Myths Episode 5: Romance, Myth, and the Feminine Imagination

May 2, 202610mEp. 35S1

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

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Behind the Curtain of Great Are the Myths: Episode 4: Masculinity as Myth, Performance, and Permission

Apr 25, 20268mEp. 34S1

In this episode we explore the many forms of masculinity surrounding Birdie in the novel: the shy Memphis boy on the edge of becoming a cultural myth, the stabilising presence of Grandpa George, the working father Mr Pre

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Behind the Curtain of Great Are the Myths Part 3: Motherhood, Surrogate Mothers, and the Emotional Architecture of Care

Apr 18, 202612mEp. 33S1

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 a

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Behind the Curtain of Great Are the Myths - Part 2: Birdie & The Boy

Apr 11, 202613mEp. 32S1

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. B

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Behind the Curtain of Great Are the Myths - Part 1: Mythology

Apr 4, 202613mEp. 31S1

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: celebr

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Season 1 Trailer: Great Are the Myths

Mar 13, 20261mS1

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.

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Great Are the Myths - Episode 30

Mar 7, 202615mEp. 30S1

Chapter 66 and Ending: Two Sleepy People In the final chapter of Great Are the Myths , the literary historical fiction audiobook set in 1950s America , Birdie and the boy— Elvis Presley , reimagined through fiction and m

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Great Are the Myths - Episode 29

Mar 7, 202626mEp. 29S1

Chapters 64–65: Houses and Rooms Are Full of Perfumes / Come Fly with Me In these chapters of Great Are the Myths , the literary historical fiction audiobook set in 1950s America , Birdie finds herself suspended between

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Great Are the Myths - Episode 28

Mar 7, 202625mEp. 28S1

Chapters 62–63: I’ll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin’) / Fairytale of New York In these chapters of Great Are the Myths , the literary historical fiction audiobook set in 1950s America , Birdie returns to Memphis for Chr

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Great Are the Myths - Episode 27

Mar 7, 202625mEp. 27S1

Chapter 61: Edge of Reality In this chapter of Great Are the Myths , the literary historical fiction audiobook set in 1950s America , Birdie meets the boy— Elvis Presley —late one night in his Los Angeles hotel suite at

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Great Are the Myths - Episode 26

Mar 7, 202615mEp. 26S1

Chapters 58–60: Night-Blooming Jasmine / I Sing the Body Electric / Where Do You Come From? In these chapters of Great Are the Myths , the literary historical fiction audiobook set in 1950s America , Birdie begins a new

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Great Are the Myths - Episode 25

Mar 7, 202615mEp. 25S1

Chapters 56–57: Graceland Revisited / Indian Summer In these chapters of Great Are the Myths , the literary historical fiction audiobook set in 1950s America , Birdie returns to Memphis for her birthday and confronts the

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Great Are the Myths - Episode 24

Mar 7, 202624mEp. 24S1

Chapters 53–55: “Veritatem Dilexi” – Commencement / My Baby Left Me / Got a Lot of Livin’ to Do! In these chapters of Great Are the Myths , the literary historical fiction audiobook set in 1950s America follows Birdie as

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Great Are the Myths - Episode 23

Mar 7, 202620mEp. 23S1

Chapters 51–52: Today, Tomorrow and Forever / I Need Somebody to Lean On In these chapters of Great Are the Myths , the literary historical fiction audiobook set in 1950s America follows Birdie as her life becomes increa

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Great Are the Myths - Episode 22

Mar 7, 202620mEp. 22S1

Chapters 48–50: Loving You / Love and Marriage / Poison Ivy League In these chapters of Great Are the Myths , the literary historical fiction audiobook continues as Birdie returns to Bryn Mawr to finish her senior thesis

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Great Are the Myths - Episode 21

Mar 6, 202638mEp. 21S1

Chapters 46–47: The Idle & The Wild / Wild in the Country Back in New York for the holidays, Birdie re-enters the world of the Northeast elite: cocktail parties on the Upper East Side, charity balls, smoky jazz clubs dow

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