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Podcast: ICYMI
Episode: We May Have A New Bad Art Friend
Description: Candice Lim is joined by Slate culture writer Nadira Goffe to break down the BookTok drama surrounding Old Enough by Haley Jakobson. Last year, Old Enough hit the shelves as a queer, coming-of-age novel about a sophomore in college named Sav and her ex-best friend, Izzie. A year later, a guest of Lucie Finkâs podcast The Real Stuff claimed she was allegedly the basis for Izzie and that her childhood was âplagarizedâ for the novel â from her experience with sexual assault to sensitive details about her family. On todayâs episode, ICYMI asks how this BookTok drama became the âBad Art Fri...