Comic's Book Club

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!

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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.

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Opera singer & meme sensation Loz McQ joins Rebecca & Molly to discuss 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. Buttplug discourse, having sex with yourself, dropping into your body, therapy in a coffee shop. Rebecca is frustrated by the idea that singleness is for preparing you for your next relationship.

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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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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