Show Notes for Episode 1: Introduction to the Memory Hole

The resources and references used in the creation of this episode

Why on earth did I become interested in this topic? That's what this episode is about.

I once, ever so briefly, wished I could remember a history of childhood sexual abuse.

It’s embarrassing to admit this brush with disaster, embarrassing to admit I’m suggestible enough to have nearly fallen into something like a cult. Because I wanted to be like my college roommates, I tried to believe I’d experienced, and then forgotten, truly horrible events. What outrageous claims would I have made, how far would I have gone just to fit in? Fortunately, I awoke from my enchantment before I did anything I would later regret.

Interview with Meredith Maran, conducted 5/23/2023

You can request a copy of her memoir, My Lie, A True Story of False Memory on her website https://meredithmaran.com/

You can hear an interview she conducted about this book here.

Dead Can Dance

https://www.deadcandance.com/

The charm of prostitution: Risky Business

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1017641-risky_business

‘Alternative’ in the 1990s was about more than music.

https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Alternative

Obsession commercials. Are you obsessed? I still am.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1985/03/14/ah-the-obsession-with-it-all/ebd515cd-0c94-451a-a55d-0402448ad81a/

More Calvin Klein and the zeitgeist.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/style/ck-one-fragrance-cologne.html

Heather Locklear and viral social concepts

https://www.retroist.com/p/and-they-told-two-friends-how-faberge-organics-shampoo-explained-virality