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The host referenced the memoir to illustrate the author's strong affinity for Frederick Exley and his literary ambitions. They quoted a passage where the author described feeling a kinship with Exley's alcoholism, sports obsession, and contempt for ordinary life. The book was mentioned as a contextual example rather than a recommendation.
Episode: The Sunday Read: ‘The Ghost Writer’
Bailey's 2014 memoir, The Splendid Things We Planned, was cited as expressing his affinity for author Frederick Exley and his own literary ambitions.
I was feeling, Bailey writes in his 2014 memoirs, The Splendid Things We Planned, a keen affinity for Exley, with his alcoholism, his morbid interest in sports, his contempt for the workaday world, the whole narcissistic juvenile world.