![]() With a quickness that somewhat strains believability, Richard is invited into the class and their inner circle. Tartt wasn’t a part of their Greek class, but she remedies this in the novel by having her narrator, Richard Papen, help the classics students out with a tricky Greek homework assignment. (Anolik also wrote the 2019 Esquire article “ The Secret Oral History of Bennington.”) Through interviews with people who attended Bennington in the early 1980s, she paints a portrait of Tartt as an insecure transfer student from Ole Miss who quickly became fascinated by classics professor Claude Fredericks and the three senior Greek students surrounding him: Todd O’Neal, Matt Jacobsen, and Paul McGloin. That’s the impression created by Lili Anolik’s podcast, Once Upon a Time … at Bennington College, which exposes the dense, elusive matrix at the root of art, the place where real life and fiction intermingle. ![]() Is Donna Tartt’s first novel, The Secret History, actually an incredibly elaborate and sophisticated burn book - an act of literary revenge against those she felt disrespected her in college? ![]()
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