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Podcast: The Last We Fake
Episode: S1 E6 - The Chanteuse
Description: Send a textEpisode 6 of “The Drift That Follows Will Be Gradual,” a novel in stories that threads together a magazine writer’s cherished past—1980s, Los Angeles—and his millennial son’s anguished determination to have his own season in the sun.Jeffrey Leviton is a fading romantic, twice divorced, redeemed by a real, if slightly grandiose, gift for his craft. Beginning in the 1980s, a golden age of magazine publishing and unmatched freedom in Los Angeles, and continuing through the onset of Covid, Leviton grows through a harrowing crucible of circumstances—romantic chaos, alcoholic recov...