Colette Shade’s “Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything”
Eric Newman speaks with Colette Shade about her book “Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything.”
By LARB Radio HourFebruary 7, 2025
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fuploads%2FRH_Shade%20(1).png)
Listen to the episode
Colette Shade’s “Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything”
00:00/00:00
Did you know LARB is a reader-supported nonprofit?
LARB publishes daily without a paywall as part of our mission to make rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts freely accessible to the public. Help us continue this work with your tax-deductible donation today!
Subscribe on Podcasts | Spotify | SoundCloud
Do you love listening to the LARB Radio Hour? Support the production of this weekly podcast on books, art, and culture. Donate today.
Eric Newman speaks with Colette Shade about her book Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything. Revisiting the strange hallmarks of that era—remember inflatable furniture and phones without touch screens?—Colette’s essays explore the social and political antecedents that formed the fashion, culture, and style of the millennial turn. With a sharp eye to the neoliberal forces that shaped the tech-fueled utopianism of the era and its aftermath, Colette’s writing brings into focus the promises of Y2K against the considerably less hopeful reality we’re living two decades on.
LARB Contributor
The LARB Radio Hour is hosted by Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf.
LARB Staff Recommendations
What Was “Random”?
Rod Bastanmehr on randomness.
It Was Just a More Empathetic Time Online
Lexi Kent-Monning interviews Kristen Felicetti about her new novel, “Log Off.”
Did you know LARB is a reader-supported nonprofit?
LARB publishes daily without a paywall as part of our mission to make rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts freely accessible to the public. Help us continue this work with your tax-deductible donation today!