How the Proust Questionnaire Went from Literary Curio to Prestige Personality Quiz
Today, I am introducing a special series within the podcast. It is something I have been developing behind the scenes for a years—an ongoing set of conversations structured around a surprising source: a 19th-century parlor game we have come to know as the Proust Questionnaire.
You may have come across it at the back of Vanity Fair magazine or heard James Lipton employ it on Inside the Actors Studio .
Maybe you have even filled it out yourself somewhere online for some this is just a party trick, in truth The Proust Questionnaire as something older, stranger, and far more revealing.