Lauren and Christine ask why bitchy, backstabbing lady-friends have always been so compelling in popular culture, and if “best friends” should make compromising videos of themselves with their friends’ boyfriends.

Book Recommendations

Susan Douglas, Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media

https://a.co/d/2s1Ib7m

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

https://a.co/d/bKDE724

Lauren and Christine ask why biopics and biographies of musicians and other celebrities are so hard to do well, what we really want when we want to “know” a celebrity through a film or book, and why everyone is staring so adoringly at Bob Dylan all the time.

Check out our book recommendations!

Lauren Sklaroff, Red Hot Mama

https://a.co/d/hVAmXZU

Harvey Cohen, Duke Ellington's America

https://a.co/d/8Dcgv1O

Nick Tosches, Hellfire

https://a.co/d/1DgSXz3

Pop-culture-loving history professors Lauren and Christine discuss three films about sex workers. Is it really so hard to make a good movie about the world’s oldest profession?

Book links:

Murder of Helen Jewett

https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Helen-Jewett-Patricia-Cline/dp/0679740759/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2QXSITL9P8AHO&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1piwib8a9EvuEnthmq_q4AIABiYlipZO38yrp9J1qhNhYmzOIiv4FYxf-5fSBqZ3cuRiaiMdWjrEg_J8uX_MORG3uf430nxd_MwdT0hpwBK2FkoohKSsgAnFSGfBKtx6.G-bOUX610gAuhOaXM1_81r5XesxmfQ6DmFgD0gHGmzs&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+murder+of+helen+jewett&qid=1743378804&sprefix=Helen+Jewett%2Caps%2C8199&sr=8-1

Trying Neiara

https://www.amazon.com/Trying-Neaira-Courtesans-Scandalous-Ancient/dp/0300094310?ref_=ast_author_dp_rw&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.bgBN1VY33MxTLLYU6vDJzHRK8ZbFtaHXSwjTNKv9AhkpotErhhn0NS3UIwLZRdHtKwi7jQlTxtT-geSCeUh_2Ouanx5885DK9PnxarofxbSJTZT6_w1euIACB4-wn0kNDaOaUuAHzEamDlyDIFs-mcU2f4QRgfHLdeEcsDeLfAZhJUmI9sGxdyqr23BOBS6M.c8yAJk3ECGlT1ksTPRr0Oc5-K5FPwJZ8866WdpSsGH8&dib_tag=AUTHOR