“I really stand by my work:” Bestselling author and journalist Peggy Orenstein on three decades of covering issues affecting girls and women, the persistence of the assault on women’s rights, and her curious predilection for offbeat adventure travel.

* Peggy’s website

* Peggy’s latest book Don’t Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life

* Peggy will be in conversation with cartooning icon Aline Kominksy-Crumb at the Bay Area Book Festival on Sunday, April 29 – details here

* Peggy’s AFAR Magazine cover story for the March/April 2018 issue: Escape from the modern world on a pilgrim’s path through Japan

* Sixteen Candles gets a rewrite in Fifty Candles, by Wendi Aarons (tune in to hear more from her in Episode 29!)

Billie Eilish – Joni Mitchell for a new generation?

Thanks as always to M. The Heir Apparent, who provides the music behind the Midlife Mixtape podcast – check him out here!