A-V: The Pieces I’ll Never Write

On candor, its limits, and what I won't do to you or to my loved ones

There is a move in media — podcast media especially, tho it infects every format — that I find almost uniquely contemptible. Call it the pump fake. Someone exits a situation with some apparent inside knowledge. They go on a tour. They do the interviews. They speak in the register of imminent disclosure: the conversations nobody is having, the things eve…