Leigh talks about her new novel, a modern gothic with a satirical edge about an unemployed Millennial journalist who becomes the manager of a hype house for Gen Z content creators — one of whom goes missing. Aryeh and Leigh also discuss whether the internet is bad now.

Recorded September 3, 2025

LINKS

Leigh's new novel, "If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You"

https://www.amazon.com/Youre-Seeing-This-Its-Meant/dp/0593983645

Profile of TikTok star William White

https://www.inverse.com/input/culture/will-white-tiktok-fandom-gen-x-middle-age-women-drama/amp

Jia Tolentino's review of Elizabeth Gilbert's new book

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/all-the-way-to-the-river-love-loss-and-liberation-elizabeth-gilbert-book-review

Leigh's Substack, "Attention Economy"

https://leighstein.substack.com/

Follow Leigh on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leighstein/

Follow Aryeh on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/aryehcw.bsky.social

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Gina Tron discusses "Suspect," her recent memoir about her childhood growing up as an outsider in a small Vermont town and the bad teenage joke that led everyone to think she was planning to be a school shooter.

Recorded Feb 20, 2025

Follow Culturally Determined (still) on Twitter @CulturallyDet

LINKS

Gina's book,"Suspect"

https://www.ginatron.net/suspect/

Gina's website

https://www.ginatron.net

Follow Gina on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ginatron.bsky.social

Follow Aryeh on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/aryehcw.bsky.social

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Aryeh and Phoebe discuss Bluesky, the newly popular Twitter alternative—and how Phoebe's mild critique of the site went mega-viral. Aryeh explains why he finally, finally quit Twitter. Is Bluesky for anti-Trump social media "refugees," or a retirement home for posting addicts? And are people on there actually nice?

Recorded December 20, 2024

Follow Culturally Determined (still) on Twitter @CulturallyDet

LINKS

Phoebe's piece, "The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons"

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-problem-with-bluesky-it-wont-broaden-our-horizons/

Aryeh and Phoebe's May 2023 episode about Twitter

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/twitter-taught-us-it-was-okay-to-be-weird-with-phoebe/id981282353?i=1000611578059

Montreal man dies after leaving hospital following six-hour wait

https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article612894.html

Phoebe's piece, "Does this book read as too parochial—or too ‘Zionist’? The pitfalls of Writing While Jewish"

https://thecjn.ca/opinion/zibby-vs-philip/

Waikiki Wanda says Bluesky is hospice for posters

https://bsky.app/profile/wanda.bsky.social/post/3lcmbzupslk2v

Phoebe's Substack

https://phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/

Feminine Chaos podcast

https://femchaospod.substack.com/

Bonjour Chai podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bonjour-chai/id1555600279

Follow Aryeh on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/aryehcw.bsky.social

Follow Phoebe on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/phoebebovy.bsky.social

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