“A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.” - Mary McCarthy, author of ‘The Group’. From her essay ‘Up the Ladder.”

Hmm.

So when is Betty going to read 1963’s The Bell Jar?

• footnote - by Natasha Simons

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    I’ve been wondering

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    Plath + Weiner would be SO EPIC. Epic, epic, epic.

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