I've loved this book since it was released. Weirdly, until The Goldfinch came out, it was a book that was at once globally popular but somehow locally unknown;

I've loved this book since it was released. Weirdly, until The Goldfinch came out, it was a book that was at once globally popular but somehow locally unknown; very few of my acquaintances had read it, so I could never talk to anyone about it. There's a podcast named Once Upon a Time at Bennington College that I hesitate to recommend because it has a sort of tabloid, gossipy vibe to it, but it's about Bennington College in the 80's, where Tartt, Jonathan Lethem, and Bret Easton Ellis were contemporaries. I skipped through it, but I found it interesting the extent to which the backdrop of The Secret History came from Bennington. https://cadence13.com/once-upon-a-time-at-bennington-college/ https://cadence13.com/once-upon-a-time-at-bennington-college... I'd also recommend the Tartt-narrated version of the audiobook. (I believe there's another version narrated by Robert Sean Leonard.)