Betty Herbert’s new book, The 52 Seductions, is
released this week, and has just been reviewed on Night and Day by the author Christina Hopkinson. We’re delighted to publish a special
Spotify Sunday selection from Betty herself — one channeled through her two protagonists, Betty and Herbert, aka her and her husband. Here it is:
Rewind to when I was 18 and about to go off to university. I have only known Herbert for eight months, and everyone (even the sad old men who prop up the bar in the pub where I work), has told me it won’t last. I do not believe them, but in any case I’m anxious. I want something to cling to on the dark evenings when we’re apart. And I first came to know Herbert when he was DJing at my local night spot.
Me: Will you make me a mix tape?
H: [Sighing heavily] Everyone always asks me to make mix tapes.
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