Well, There You Have It (ft. Andrew Martin)

We're back! Really! Having revived ourselves with grapefruit
Spindrift and coffee following our lackluster 2nd anniversary
show, we invited Andrew 'actually Armenian' Martin, author of the
novel Early Work and the short story collection Cool for America,
to join us at Lauren's Park Slope manse for a rollicking
discussion of Book 2's famous face-slashing section! Andrew did
not disappoint: with typical Armenian wit and candor, he helped
us to pick apart the drunken series of events leading to Karl
Ove's facial mutilation. Enjoy!


cheat sheet:


00:50 - Andrew gives us the DL on all the most important Armenian
Americans; we start beef with Elif Batuman; the Queen is mourned,
we ponder which British 80s singers are bereft, and which are
overjoyed;


25:16 - Karl Ove sets eyes on Linda for the first time; it's the
summer of 1999, Linda's wearing cool Matrix sunglasses (we're
pretty sure) and we ponder what other y2k phenomena Karl Ove
engaged with. Also: the 2022 film The Northman helps us to
understand some peculiar actions reportedly undertaken by Karl
Ove and Arve at the Biskops Arno seminar.


52:00 - Karl Ove tries to impress Linda by playing Wilco's
Summerteeth and showing her a Roman cookbook, to no avail; this
leads Lauren to prompt Drew and Andrew to share their picks on
which album and cookbook they would choose to impress a woman in
2022.


1:19:06 - The rejection comes, somewhat robotically; Karl Ove
takes a shard of glass to his face but it doesn't stop him from
enjoying some pizza and catching a Garbage concert with Tonje the
day after. Andrew and Drew reflect on acts of drunken destruction
undertaken as young men. 


Until next time! 


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