The Lonely Hearts Club

No, you’re not going even crazier than expected in isolation: today is Wednesday and it’s our new episode release day because we love to keep you on your toes. On the agenda, a look at infamous influencer ‘scammer’ Caroline Calloway’s response to her former best friend Natalie’s tell-all article which leads us to discuss the wider influencer industry’s movements - to the Hamptons, to be exact - during this global pandemic, resulting in the viral hashtag #covidiots. Then it’s a deep dive into dealing with loneliness during isolation: why we need to use the terms ‘connected’ and ‘unconnected’ to describe people rather than looking simply at their relationship status, whether social media contributes to or helps to combat it and how being vulnerable is the answer to helping us all feel more together (even though we’re physically not). Plus, of course, some ridiculous stories about getting too drunk off 'martinis', breaking plates (Grace, yesterday) and cups (Isabelle, aged 11). 

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Recommendations:

Unorthodox (2020) on Netflix

Ozark on Netflix

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

'If you enjoyed a good book and you're a woman, the critics think you're wrong' by Jennifer Weiner in The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/24/good-books-women-readers-literary-critics-sexism

'It's Tartt - But Is It Art?' by Evgenia Peretz in Vanity Fair

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/07/goldfinch-donna-tartt-literary-criticism

Marian Keyes on BBC's Bookclub Podcast

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fw1j

Is This The End of Influencing As We Know It? by Kenzie Bryant in Vanity Fair

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/04/influencers-coronavirus-arielle-charnas-escape-new-york

The History of Loneliness by Jill Lepore in The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/06/the-history-of-loneliness

Alain de Botton on Elizabeth Day's 'How To Fail' COVID-19 Special

https://howtofail.podbean.com/e/alain-de-botton-c19/

And this of course:

https://www.iamcarolinecalloway.com/

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