How Novel!

Alternative title: Hey, can I borrow $70,000? I'll wire it back tomorrow. I have the tracking number right here!

Alex and Claire discuss Rachel William's book 'My Friend Anna.' An attempt to (cash in on) DISCUSS Anna Delvey, a Russian lass who scammed the whole New York 'art and rich c*nts scene,'  and Rachel herself.  A&C don't really like the book, which is mostly Rachel trying to not sound like an extremely privileged Vanity Fair employee hanging out with a known sh*tbag for free sparkle nailzzzzzzzzzzzz.

But that's only because preying on fake rich people to get rich is Alex and Claire's get rich quick plan. Don't be frightening the socialites away, Rachel. 

Read this The Cut article , but not before YOU LISTEN TO US TALKING SH*T ABOUT 'MY FRIEND ANNA,'  YOU GOLD DIGGERS!
https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/how-anna-delvey-tricked-new-york.html

Also, don't worry at 1hr and 19. It's not your headphones glitching. It's Claire's brain. 
 
Be there or catch me outside how 'bout dat.

Alternative title: Have fun getting 'toss a coin to your witcher' out of your head. We sing it three times

Join Alex and Claire for a round table discussion of The Witcher; the TV show, the Ps4 game, the novels of Andrzej Sapkowski, and the treelike acting of Henry Cavil AKA posh man-log.

Lured by the promise of Taron Edgerton, Alex failed to get through the audio book version of The Sandman. She explains the deeply confusing experience of listening to 1988 Neil Gaiman pretend to know how lesbians work.

Sideswipes taken at the last season of Game of Thrones, Outlander, amnesia, and YOUR MUM PROBABLY.  Be there or a magician will spearhead a campaign to kill all chicks born on Boxing Day.

TW. Rape is a theme in both novels and is discussed throughout the podcast

Alternative Title: Book Medley!

1. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
NOT about a haunted house.

2. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
*shrek voice* GET OUT OF MY SWAMP!!!
Claire guesses the mystery and ruins everything.

3. My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Stupid old man creepazoid ruins a girls life. And by girl I do mean 'Alexandra who read this book.' Also Vanessa. LEAVE VANESSA ALONE.

4. If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
Claire makes the joke of the episode. Cackling ensues.

5. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
No.

6. The Happiest Man Alive by Eddie Jakku
:( but also :)

7. Come by Rita Therese
A darkly hilarious memoir from a Melbourne sex worker. Could YOU poo on someone for money?

8. Inside out by Demi Moore
...kind of. Alex ruins Claire's Punkd joke and they shit talk Ashton Kutcher.

TW: we discuss sexual assault, Lolita and other creepy, non consentual fictional relationships and the holocaust.

Roxane Gay is mentioned so many times throughout this podcast, we should probably pay her.

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Alternative title: This Fucking Guy.
This week we read 'Too much and Never Enough; How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man' by Mary Trump. Come for the lowdown on a book everyone is too Trump fatigued to read. Stay for the sighing, name-calling, batshit family history and attempts to define the term 'Karen.'
Also, Claire confesses to getting Trump elected via the butterfly effect, which is just typical.
Landlord: fake job
The terrifying Fred Trump picture
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Alternative title: Little Karen's Everywhere.
This week we read 'Little Fires Everywhere' by Celeste Ng and discuss why shitty people love using fake benevolence as nunchaku to bash in the heads of those who chose to live differently.
Alex recounts a failed prank involving a bridge, six sham gmail accounts and a bag of cow bones. Claire confesses to spending upward of five hours a day on Tik Tok, an app for children.

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Alternative title: Anthony Bourdain was old man fit.

This week we read Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain. Alex guides Claire in learning about and mourning Mr. Bourdain whose book about getting mad high and cooking fancy stopped thousands, maybe millions of people ordering fish on Monday. Come for Bourdain's hilarious misadventures, stay for Alex and Claire's personal anecdotes about working in the world's shittiest restaurant; stealing their own tips and licking the spoons of those who wronged them.
Hot chips are shit. Fight me on the internet.

TW: Anthony Bourdain committed suicide and we discuss this event throughout the podcast.

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Alternative title: The Secret Seven: Seven Cheers for the Curse of Rock n' Roll!
This week we're reading Reese Witherspoon endorsed, fake rock band biography 'Daisy Jones and the Six' by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Alex wonders what poor hack will get stuck writing the music for the TV adaption. Claire gets confused about what you'd mean if you said a person's eyes were 'cornflower blue' and cries again. Don't write a song about her.
Caution: This episode includes stirring a capella versions of 'I Got You Babe,' 'Senorita' and 'Don't You Want Me.'
Be there or be Dorian Gray's cursed face!

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Alternative title: 'Maybe you should Cry on a Podcast'

We read 'Maybe You Should Talk to Someone' by Lori Gottlieb and that learn Claire hates crocs and cries whenever you say the word 'cancer.' Alex ponders boomer embarrassment about therapy. Claire cries. Alex gets mad about how men are praised for being lazy because she wants to be praised for being lazy. Claire cries again.
FUN TIMES ARE HAD BY ALL AND WE ALSO LEARN A LOT, TOO!

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Alternative title: Fish Mishers Murder Mishteries
The flagship episode of the ultimate one-sided book club! We read Murder on a Midsummer Night by Kerry Greenwood. Alex ponders Miss Fisher's clear alcoholism and disdain for anyone who isn't a stone cold ten. Claire is deeply repulsed by all descriptions of food, clothing, art and twee magic. Is it too much to ask for a novel about BLACKBEARD'S PIRATE TREASURE! YARRRR, GIVE ME YOUR CHARTREUSE COCKTAILS AND SMALL CUPS OF CHILLED BOUILLON OR YOU'LL WALK THE PLANK, YE SCURVY SWINE!

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