Anna Barrington — The Spectacle - with Eleanor Stern

Nobody knows quite who Rudolph Sullivan is, or how he ascended so quickly to the glittering top of New York's art scene. When aspiring artist and struggling gallery assistant Ingrid meets the charismatic dealer at a party, she falls fast--Rudolph offers her a seductive taste of luxury and an escape from her humdrum existence. But Rudolph is hiding much more than his dazzling facade lets on. With insatiable tastes and a need to keep up appearances, his debts mount rapidly, and he turns to double dealing to stay afloat. As his adversaries close in, Rudolph realizes his fall from grace could cost him more than his reputation. Panicking, paranoid, and willing to sacrifice anyone to maintain his precarious foothold, he plans his most audacious gambit yet--and Ingrid is at the center of it. PURCHASE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9781454960485?ic_referral=xyW22u3ykWmxU3O6IMbPzdXFtVyxwQ7owl5VhO8FRg8wM5PLM7eDk-2aWCSK2YNlB-AreTiqQnGodnPB1XpWNS85f4JGwbH3pd4QKp29_8ZjpalYy6NSzZsyM3_OZnnDl1_cXmAAnna Barrington has worked in galleries and auction houses in the art world for over five years. She received an MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art and a BA from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Originally from Atlanta, she currently lives in London, where she worked at a leading international art gallery. This is her first novel.Barrington is in conversation with Eleanor Stern. Stern is a writer and critic originally from New Orleans. Her fiction and her writing on literature and linguistics can be found in Joyland, The New Inquiry, the Southern Humanities Review, and on her Substack, Wicked Tongue.