{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgood-scribes-only.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Frules-of-attraction-mini-Xy_6pc4E","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"#117 🧓🏼 Peak Late! Achieving Artistic Success at a Young Age, Ego in Writing, and Jon Hamm","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/80351595-9ff6-4de2-9634-ab8ca3104d78/ab5abd61-59c3-46cc-a3f9-f0de3bf34811/null","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/c7c1f5c7-a211-4bde-9495-cac2a90f411e\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"#117 🧓🏼 Peak Late! Achieving Artistic Success at a Young Age, Ego in Writing, and Jon Hamm\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"About The Book:\nSet at an affluent liberal arts college during the height of the Reagan eighties, The Rules of Attraction follows a handful of rowdy, spoiled, sexually promiscuous students with no plans for the future—or even the present. Three of them—Sean, Paul, and Lauren—become involved in a love triangle of sorts within a sequence of drug runs, \"Dressed to Get Screwed\" parties, and \"End of the World\" parties.\n\nAs Bret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at the self-consciously bohemian Camden College, treating their sexual posturing and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and compassion, he exposes the moral vacuum at the center of their lives."}