You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall
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Sarah is a journalist obsessed with the past. Every week she reconsiders a person or event that's been miscast in the public imagination.

  1. 3D AGO

    Hoax Memoir Spectacular!

    This week, flim flam correspondent and certified April Fool Chelsey Weber-Smith is here to talk about a fistful of fake memoirs, featuring girls raised by wolves; the chicken pox of James Frey; what poetry can give us that memoir can't; and Eugene, Oregon (twice!). Read more about it here: The Smoking Gun's "A Million Little Lies" https://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/million-little-lies Blake Eskin's "The Girl Who Cried Wolf" https://www.bostonmagazine.com/2008/08/18/the-gi...

    1h 28m

  2. 5D AGO • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Marilyn's Dress

    What happens when a billionaire reality tv star inserts herself into the dress and legacy of the most iconic bombshell of the 21st Century? In 1962, Marilyn Monroe commissioned fashion designer Jean Louis and freshly graduated design student Bob Mackie to create a one of a kind flesh-colored soufflé gauze gown for her appearance at a fundraiser for JFK, cooing a legendary rendition of “Happy Birthday” (Mr. President) and captivating the world from her rhinestoned sheer confection. For this episode, Caroline O’Donoghue (of the Sentimental Garbage podcast) joins us to hear Fashion and Tinseltown Correspondent Eve Lindley recount what happened when Kim Kardashian convinced the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not “Museum” to sew her into this piece of archival fashion history for the 2022 Met Gala, including the ensuing uproar from the public.

    1h 28m

  3. MAR 26

    Your Joy and Resilience Stories

    At the end of our last episode, we asked you to call in and tell us what has been bringing you joy, connecting you to your community, and where you’ve been finding hope in these last few months. These are some of the responses we wanted to share in hopes that we can all find new ways to survive this world together. Thank you to all who sent us messages; though we couldn’t play them all, we felt inspired listening to each and every one. Support You're Wrong About: Bonus Episodes on Patreon Bu...

    24 min

  4. MAR 2 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    Germany's Go Ask Alice with Adrian Daub (Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo)

    We're talking about a teenage girl's memoir of drugs, survival, and escape—a book that freaked out German-speaking kids and parents about as much as Go Ask Alice did for Americans. Only this time, the story is true. (Plus! Your responses to my post asking about what's making you feel excitement and joy ended up making me feel so much joy that I wanted to ask the same question as an episode prompt. So if you want to share your joy and excitement again, please send a sound file or voice memo—three minutes or shorter—to sloppyandalive [at] gmail [dot] com, and you might hear it in our next episode.) Read Adrian's Substack posts on Christiane F.—part III coming soon. Part I: "Though nothing will keep us together" https://adriandaub.substack.com/p/the-age-of-christiane-f Part II: "We're nothing, and nothing will help us" https://adriandaub.substack.com/p/the-age-of-christiane-f-part-ii

    1h 22m

  5. FEB 27

    The Worst Oscars Ever?? with Michael Schulman

    What do Lily Tomlin, Snow White, and Kenny Ortega have in common? They were all part of the 61st Academy Awards, a broadcast now remembered as the worst of all time, and masterminded by Allan Carr (lover of spectacle and producer of Grease). But awards season correspondent and New Yorker staff writer Michael Schulman is here to argue that the tackiest, most disastrous Oscars of all time might just be... unfairly maligned. And to tell us what's bringing you joy and excitement right now, send...

    1h 20m

  6. FEB 12

    Emotional Labor with Rachel Monroe and Ash Compton of Bad Therapist

    What is "emotional labor," and why is it probably not what your boyfriend accuses you of making him do when you want him to go to Ikea with you? Psychotherapist Ash Compton and journalist Rachel Monroe are here to tell the tale of how the term sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild coined—in her 1983 book The Managed Heart—has come to mean, well, almost everything. How is the term still useful? How can we use therapy language as a tool for growth or an excuse for avoiding it? And whose job is i...

    1h 2m

  7. JAN 30

    Alice Kyteler and the First Witchcraft Trial in Ireland with Molly Aitken

    In County Kilkenny, Ireland, in an early year of a century not too long before our own, Alice Kyteler was accused of witchcraft. But the story doesn't end there. This week, Molly Aitken—author of BRIGHT I BURN—is here to tell us a tale where the more things* change, the more they stay the same. (*Men) Read Molly's books: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2204198/molly-aitken/ This month's bonus episode on Peg Bracken's I Hate to Cook Book: https://www.patreon.com/posts/121131515?pr=t...

    1h 5m

  8. JAN 30 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    The I Hate to Cook Book with Sarah Archer (or, how to feed yourself and your loved ones even when everything is terrible)

    This week, kitchen cabinet member Sarah Archer is back to discuss Peg Bracken's 1960 masterpiece, The I Hate to Cook Book--a massive bestseller of the era that has just a little bit more to say about the housewife's role in society than it does about dinner. Also discussed: recipes including Portland Pilaff, Sweep Steak, and Maxey's Franks; whether creamed corn is a normal pantry item; Julia Child; tuna noodle casserole; a passionate defense of soup and dip mix recipes; and the perennial question: Am I the only one who's this depressed? (You're not. We're here.) It's a hands across the pantry episode. Thank you so much for being here this month. Thank you for feeding yourself today. Love, Sarah and the gang

    1h 3m
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Sarah is a journalist obsessed with the past. Every week she reconsiders a person or event that's been miscast in the public imagination.

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