KP and Sophia crack open the “Nightly Book Club” in the Pillow Fort on The Nightly, serving a cozy, chaotic mix of library love, literary hot takes, and late-night recs that’ll wreck your TBR in the best way.

Fresh off a big move, KP’s exploring her local branches like a social butterfly with a library card—crashing creative writing circles, photo meetups, and an unexpected kids’ chess class—while Sophia makes the case that libraries are the ultimate urban hangouts (free events, free tools, and yes, public sewing machines!). From there, it’s a caffeinated, candlelit chat that jumps between dystopia, memoir, and myth. Sophia evangelizes I Who Have Never Known Men and the haunting internet spirals it triggered, while KP defends Frankenstein’s eternal relevance and admits her new obsession with nonfiction. The duo swap favorite authors (Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Emily Henry), roast the “too many POVs” problem, and debate when a Greek myth retelling becomes just… fanfic with laurels. Equal parts syllabus and sleepover, it’s a love letter to reading, rewriting, and the library card that still does the most.

What you’ll hear:

• Library hacks: Free events, maker spaces, and surviving a kids-only chess class
• Book rec lightning round:
• I Who Have Never Known Men, The Fruit of the Dead, Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel
• The Center Cannot Hold, Frankenstein, Dante’s Inferno (on deck)
• Genre buffet: Spec fic, sci-fi, myth retellings, and “romance without the smut”
• Structure therapy: POV overload, disorienting time jumps, and too many guys named Jon
• Snackable reads: The Compound (Love Island meets The Hunger Games) + KP’s eternal Frankenstein plug

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