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Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College

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It’s the groves of academe: Bennington College, the wildest and wickedest school in America. In the last great decade: the 1980s. Bennington class of ’86, class of Bret Easton Ellis, future...

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Listen to Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College, a Society & Culture podcast by Audacy Podcasts. Stream 29 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Introducing: What We Spend

Imagine if you could ask someone anything you wanted about their finances. On What We Spend, people from across the country and across the f...

11:03Apr 24, 2025

S2 | Ep 13: The Farmer’s Granddaughter

Cambridge, Massachusetts and New York, New York. Spring of 1986 to Fall of 1994. The Secret History is published. Plus, “The Purge” comes to...

59:12Dec 1, 2021

S2 | Ep 11: Disturbing Michiko Kakutani

Bennington and New York City. Autumn, 1985-spring, 1986. Less Than Zero is published and Bret becomes a cultural phenomenon. Bret also becom...

55:06Nov 17, 2021

S2 | Ep 10: An Impossible Shade of Green

Bennington. Autumn, 1983-Spring, 1986. Donna begins The Secret History . Donna throws tea parties and frequents martini hours. Donna bides h...

51:32Nov 10, 2021

S2 | Ep 8: Murder By Numbers

Bennington. Spring, 1983-Spring, 1985. Bret lives The Rules of Attraction , then sells Less Than Zero . Bret befriends David Lipsky, then be...

50:11Oct 27, 2021

S2 | Ep 7: Donna Lou

Mississippi, 1963-1982. Donna’s origin story. And Lord Jim... revealed?

57:56Oct 20, 2021

S2 | Ep 6: Mississippi Chippy

Winter, 1982-1983. Over Non-Resident term, Donna gets closer to Jonathan, and becomes Paul McGloin's "Burning Boy."

57:21Oct 13, 2021

S2 | Ep 5: Bennington Revisited

Bennington. Autumn, 1982. Donna falls under the thrall of a magus-like professor, and the very small, very elite, very male band of students...

55:52Oct 6, 2021

S2 | Ep 3: An Alley Along Melrose

Los Angeles, 1981-1982. “This rumor went around in 1981, 1982, that kids just were brought to see the body of another kid.” The origin story...

45:08Sep 29, 2021

S2 | Ep 2: Bret Ellis, Valley Boy

Los Angeles, 1980-1981. “There was just this huge sense that the world was gay, gay, gay.” The origin story of Bret Easton Ellis (and Less T...

49:14Sep 29, 2021

S2 | Ep 1: Dis-Orientation

Bennington. Autumn, 1982. Donna, Jonathan and Bret arrive on the campus of the school nicknamed “The Little Red Whorehouse on the Hill.” One...

41:12Sep 29, 2021

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