About this episode

Bridget and Kat discuss the decline of YA fiction, the concept of death doulas, and the fading presence of the internet.

Bridget sits down again with novelist and Free Press columnist Kat Rosenfield to talk about the rise of death doulas, the death of YA fiction, and how the internet is quietly erasing itself. Kat digs into how YA fiction collapsed into "romantasy" and smut, the dead internet theory and vanishing digital archives - including Bridget's own lost Playboy articles and Kat's MTV News work. They also cover the Kennedy Center controversy, why Gen Z treats Trump as their political "factory settings," w...

People in this episode

Host: Bridget Phetasy

Guest: Kat Rosenfield

Topics covered

• internet culture
• YA fiction
• death doulas
• digital archives
• political commentary
• Gen Z perspectives

Keywords

• internet
• YA fiction
• death doulas
• digital archives
• Kennedy Center
• Gen Z
• Trump

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Free Press, MTV News, Playboy

Places: Gen Z

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