Karina Longworth on Her Hollywood Reading Canon and New Podcast Season 'The Bisexuals'
Since 2014, Karina Longworth has been the host of the podcast You Must Remember This. On Tuesday, she debuted a new season called "The Bisexuals," which delves into the life of queer singer Libby Holman, who gained the moniker of black widow following the deaths of her partners, including an heir to Camel cigarettes and actor Montgomery Clift. Longworth, who grew up in Los Angeles during the 1980s and 1990s, studied cinema at NYU and served as a film editor for LA Weekly. She differentiates film criticism from pulp fiction and has nearly completed her collection of Confidential magazine. Recently, she finished reading Bret Easton Ellis's The Shards and admires the works of Nathanael West and Ernest Hemingway.
Key facts
- Karina Longworth has hosted the podcast You Must Remember This since 2014.
- The new season, "The Bisexuals," began airing Tuesday and explores the life of singer Libby Holman.
- Longworth grew up in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s and visited Bob Hope's Toluca Lake mansion annually.
- She studied cinema studies at NYU and was a film editor at LA Weekly in the early 2010s.
- She owns an almost complete collection of Confidential magazine, missing only an issue with Orson Welles and Eartha Kitt on the cover.
- Her Polly Platt season was based on unpublished memoirs, connected through producer Stacey Sher and Platt's daughters Antonia and Sashy.
- She recently finished Bret Easton Ellis's The Shards and started Lila Raicek's The Plunge.
- Her required reading list includes Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger (1959), By Myself and Then Some by Lauren Bacall (2005), The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis (2023), The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West (1939), Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West (1933), A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (1964), and The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway (1986).
Entities
Artists
- Karina Longworth
- Libby Holman
- Montgomery Clift
- Bob Hope
- Lauren Bacall
- Humphrey Bogart
- James Dean
- Kenneth Anger
- Kathleen Turner
- Orson Welles
- Eartha Kitt
- Polly Platt
- Antonia
- Sashy
- Stacey Sher
- Hedy Lamarr
- Lila Raicek
- Bret Easton Ellis
- Nathanael West
- Ernest Hemingway
- Kay Francis
- Bette Davis
Institutions
- You Must Remember This
- NYU
- LA Weekly
- Casablanca
- Playboy
- Entertainment Weekly
- Confidential
- eBay
- People
- Spin
- Warner Bros
- CULTURED
- Amazon
- Barnes & Noble
Locations
- Los Angeles
- United States
- Toluca Lake
- New York
- Laurel Canyon