S6 Ep. 35: Cancel Club: Jane Roper on Online Shame, Responsibility, and Fame

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Writer Jane Roper joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss cancel culture and her new book, The Society of Shame. Roper teases out some of the similarities and differences between the group in her novel and the real-life “Gathering of Thought Criminals” as recently covered in the New Yorker. She discusses what social and moral offenses can and cannot be forgiven. She reads from her book as well as the New Yorker article by Emma Green.

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This episode of the podcast was produced by Anne Kniggendorf.

Jane Roper

• The Society of Shame
• Double Time
• Eden Lake

Others:

• “The Party is Cancelled” by Emma Green, The New Yorker
• “‘Central Park Karen’ Amy Cooper Loses Lawsuit Against Former Employer” by Patrick Reilly
• “Florida Women Plead Guilty in Sex Sting Involving Patriots Owner Robert Kraft” Associated Press
• Thomas Sowell
• Tyler Fischer
• “‘Nobody imagined it would go on this long’: Bud Light sales continue to plummet over Mulvaney backlash” by Rob Wile
• Fiction/Non/Fiction, Season 1, Episode 2: “Jia Tolentino and Claire Vaye Watkins Talk Abuse, Harassment, and Harvey Weinstein”
• Fiction/Non/Fiction, Season 4, Episode 13: Cancellation or Consequences? Meredith Talusan and Matt Gallagher on Accountability in Literature ‹ Literary Hub
• “Uber’s Diversity Chief Put on Leave After Complaints of Insensitivity” by Kellen Browning

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