Nancy Rommelmann is a journalist and an author of many books, including her latest, Forty Bucks and a Dream: a collection of nonfiction pieces about her time in Los Angeles. She is also the co-host of one of my favorite podcasts—Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em.

We discuss….

• Nancy’s favorite books.
• Nobody “snows you” like your kids.
• What percent sociopath are you?
• If you got a voucher for a free strip-o-gram, would you take it?

Would you?

• Team Sarah (yes to love life writing) vs Team Nancy (not as much so)

A book I recommended to Nancy

• I ask why and how “Sarah and Nancy work as a podcasting duo.”
• Smoke Em Dramas:
  Sarah and Nancy debating “negging.”
  Nancy and Walter Kirn debating Viktor Orbán.
  Sarah’s botched introduction to Michael Tracey. 
• Nancy writing about the Ristretto Roasters saga.
• Where the “Hot for Due Process” swag idea was borne.
• The art of not falling apart: having something important and unselfish to do?
• The first of the Musings of the Night Nurse series.

Music by Duncan Barrett, who you can follow and listen to, here and here.