In the penultimate episode, Mia Mercado comes on to discuss her book Weird but Normal & the writer's journey. The pomodoro method, ambient coffee shop noises, being the worst read writer ever.

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Snacking Before, During, and After W/ Mia Mercado

Comedian Anya Volz comes on to discuss Edith Wharton's House of Mirth, the Uncut Gems of turn of the century high society women. Consequences for bad choices are way out of proportion when you're a woman, turning down opportunities bc you feel like a pawn in someone else's plan, accidental overdoses, and more!   @AnyaVolz @ComicsBookClub

You Get What You Fucking Get W/ Anya Volz

Starr Davis joins Molly & Rebecca to discuss her poem Mourning Sex which was published in Kenyon Review, which she wrote in the wake of the death of Nipsey Hussle, instead of calling an ex. The poem explores what it's like when you attempt to escape pain and are left face to face with the same void at the end & giving ourselves more grace to feel grief. @_StarrDavis @SeriousMolly @RebeccaRush639      

Giving Ourselves Grace W/ Starr Davis

Opera singer & meme sensation Loz McQ joins Rebecca & Molly to discuss the book Single on Purpose, a beginner's guide to singlehood. Loz talks about how the book helped her shift her thinking from the context of being a person that's not just waiting to be in a relationship. From there there's an in depth buttplug discourse, having sex with yourself in a more meaningful way, dropping into your body, and the very LA idea of therapy in a coffee shop as almost a performance. Rebecca shares her frustration with the idea that singleness is only there to prepare you for your next relationship. @RebeccaRush639 @SeriousMolly @BrutalRecovery

Buttplugs Don't Care How Old You Are W/ Loz McQ

Author and TV writer Amanda Rosenberg comes on to discuss her sparkling and vulnerable book of essays, That's Mental. We discuss finding what works for you, seeing how your experience can benefit others, what it's like to be a person without substance abuse disorder in a rehab and what it's like to be a person without mental illness in a psych ward. Twitter: @AmandaRosenberg @ComicsBookClub

You Can't Heal Me With Your Crystals W/ Amanda Rosenberg

Molly & Rebecca interview author Gwen Goodkin on her short story collection A Place Remote. Writing from the perspective of the opposite sex is freeing, putting work down and coming back to it, people react worst to the truth they know that they aren't willing to admit, learning through writing more than anything else.  Our job as writers is to do our stories justice. Writing as ritual. Midwesterners don't like waste. @GwenGoodkin @ComicsBookClub

Dreaming With Your Eyes Open W/ Gwen Goodkin

Molly and Rebecca read The Best of Me by David Sedaris together, a compilation of his best work and a few new essays. We discuss mining your family for stories, how we feel about his fiction, essay structure, travel, shopping, regrets, family tragedy, and favorite Sedaris family members. Molly stans Amy Sedaris. @ComicsBookClub

Slapping My Face With Vulnerability

Ron Huett of Best American Essays 2020 comes on to discuss his essay "Cosmic Latte." We discuss getting more confident in your own authority over your own writing, people not staying in their zone on the ethics and morality of race, you can't always tell someone's race or ethnicity by the way they look, getting good news in the middle of a depressing work zoom call, the geography of race perception. Molly & Ron bond over having both worked at Borders. @RonnieHuett @ComicsBookClub

The Color of Everything W/ Ron Huett

Join Molly & Rebecca as they cover the books that meant the most to them in a year where the joy of disappearing into a book meant more than ever. Categories: Best thing you learned, book that made you forget it was 2020, book that surprised you the most, best audio book, best non fiction, favorite reread, funniest, short story, pleasure read, and MORE! @ComicsBookClub

2020: Our Year in Books

Comedian (America's Got Talent) Alex Hooper has Molly & Rebecca read The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer. Begging vs asking, trying to sell merch after a show, building a fan base vs building community, asking people to volunteer to play with you, performing for free, and the journey of getting over your own bullshit. Scarcity mindset around performing. Molly is a HUGE fan of Amanda Palmer. Also, America's Got Talent can totally afford to pay. @HooperHairPuff @ComicsBookClub

The Fraud Police

In the pod's second and Molly's first crossover episode (last one was with Fuckbois of Lit) we join forces with the Heaving Bosom podcast to read The Devil of Downtown by Joanna Shupe, in which a wealthy New Yorker who wants to use her priviledge for good meets a dapper crime boss and romance ensues. Molly hosts alone, which works because only one of the HB hosts was able to be there as well. An introduction to to the wonder of romance! Rebecca stopped reading over seven times to jerk off. Also, the shame of early podcast eps!   @ComicsBookClub @Heaving_Bosoms

NOT Porn For Housewives W/ Heaving Bosoms

Author, actress, and comedian Arden Myrin joins Molly & Rebecca to discuss her newly released memoir-in-essays, Little Miss Little Compton. Myrin describes the book as, "Little girl from quirky small town family with stars in her eyes moves to the big city and makes good while learning how to be a human on earth. Also, personal safety, grief, and more. @ArdenMyrin @SeriousMolly @ComicsBookClub @RebeccaRush639  

Sparkle Magic W/ Arden Myrin

We sit down with author Meg Elison to discuss her most recent work, a YA novel called Find Layla, in which our protagonist, Layla, puts a video on social media that goes viral and dismantles her life as she knows it. We also discuss the poverty cycle, when caretakers fail, bullying, and Meg gives some great writing tips. @MegElison @ComicsBookClub

Going Viral Can Ruin Your Life W/ Meg Elison

Pirates! Witches! Mermaids! Girls kissing! Maggie Takouda-Hall joins Molly & Rebecca to discuss her fantasy YA novel The Mermaid, The Witch, and The Sea. We recommend this book for adults, too! It's an entire world you can disappear into, with gorgeous storytelling and the exploration of the stories we tell ourselves, with our characters on the hero's quest to find out who they truly are, and what really matters to them. Writing process, world building, stealing mannerisms from people in your life for your characters. Also, white people are actually pink. @EmteeHall @ComicsBookClub

White People Are Actually Pink W/ Maggie Takouda-Hall

Comedian Christine Meehan-Burg joins Rebecca & new cohost Molly Sanchez to discuss Delia Owen's Where the Crawdads Sing, a coming of age novel wrapped in a murder mystery, set in the 1950's south. We love the marsh, explorations of loneliness, but are tired of seeing stories in which women discover themselves through men. It's a book you just eat up! New segment! Who would we cast in this movie? @funnychristine @SeriousMolly @ComicsBookClub

The Fireflies' Terrible Way W/ Christine Meehan-Burg

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