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Our guest Kat Rosenfield is one of the best cultural critics of our day: Funny, incisive, fast-moving, and a great novelist to boot (see You Must Remember This). She’s a third-timer on this pod, which might be a record, and she’s just landed a plum gig as a columnist for the Free Press. You may know Kat from her podcast Feminine Chaos, with Phoebe Maltz-Bovy, or you may know Kat from Twitter, where she always keeps it interesting. She came on to talk about her latest column for the Free Press, “Does Divorce Make You Hotter?”

Also discussed:

* Divorce rings

* So many Emilys

* Bad-mouthing your former spouse in public

* Tom Wolfe: “The right to shuck overripe wives”

* Red flags in men are somehow not red flags when women do it?

* The point of a personal esssay

* WE LOVE MEN, good husbands edition

* The people who crow their happiness on social media are almost never happy

* Rasputin, the cat

* Social media breakup announcements: We are the celebrities now

* In defense of the “over-ripe” demographic

* Sarah announces her new boyfriend, which almost certainly means she’ll break up tomorrow

* But what does he eat for breakfast?

* Do real criminals rap about their previously undetected crimes?

Plus, Diddy and the potential dangers of confusing the artist with his art, some Andy Mills love, the origin story of Sarah’s new romance, and much more!