Dud Avocados and Podcast Shoes

And other things to get you through June...

I’m definitely not the only one who first read Elaine Dundy’s The Dud Avacado when NYRB Classics put it back into circulation a few years back. I remember putting it down and feeling shocked that Dundy’s Sally Jay Gorce wasn’t the sort of cultural icon that Truman Capote’s Holly Golightly is, but then I remembered there isn’t a Dud Avacado movie starrin…