This week: The world continues to be a bummer and we're trying to deal with it. Can we move on from the bummer? Should we go live in a hutch in the woods? Plus: Catalina Island vs. Coney Island, scenes from an open marriage, '90s nostalgia, re-watching "Flirting With Disaster," two takes on shorts, listener questions, listener reviews AND — surprise! — we have a male listener!
HI, HELLO, HERE ARE SHOW NOTES What we recommend this week: Big Bud Press Shorts   This Paris Review article on Open Marriage by Jean Garnett Flirting With Disaster, the 1996 film (streaming on Hulu!) INKEY eye creams
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Shorts I'll Never Wear

Everything is Fine is a series for women on life over 40. Hosted by former Lucky magazine founding editor Kim France and author and editor Jennifer Romolini, each episode digs deep into the identity shift that comes with navigating this alternately weird and liberating stage of life. A chat-show with themed episodes and interview guests from the media and entertainment worlds, we tackle our fears, our health, our careers, self-care, and how to negotiate being called “middle-aged” when you feel anything but. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Our guest today is writer Jami Attenberg. Jami is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books of fiction, including THE MIDDLESTEINS and ALL GROWN UP, the memoir, I CAME ALL THIS WAY TO MEET YOU, and, most recently, the bestselling writing guide 1000 WORDS. She is also the founder of the annual #1000WordsofSummer project, and maintains the popular Craft Talk newsletter year-round. Jami’s new novel, A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN will be released in September.
You can find Jami on her Substack: 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com You can find Kim on her Substack: kimfrance.substack.com NEW: you can find Jenn on her Substack: jennromolini.substack.com (so many Substacks!) You can pre-order Jenn's book, AMBITION MONSTER: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ambition-Monster/Jennifer-Romolini/9781668056585 Concerns? Critiques? Suggestions? Just want to say "hi"? You can email us: everythingisfinethepodcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"The time is now" — with Jami Attenberg

Jenn's losing her mind with book stuff, Kim's sorting through a mood, neither made a "things to talk about" list. Let's see how it goes!
You can find Kim on her Substack: kimfrance.substack.com NEW: you can find Jenn on her substack: jennromolini.substack.com You can pre-order Jenn's book, AMBITION MONSTER: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ambition-Monster/Jennifer-Romolini/9781668056585 Concerns? Critiques? Suggestions? Just want to say "hi"? You can email us: everythingisfinethepodcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The One When We had Nothing to Say

Our guest this week is writer and podcaster Jane Marie. Jane is a Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist, a former producer of This American Life, the host of the acclaimed podcast, The Dream, and, more recently, Dear Jane Marie, and the co-founder of the podcast studio Little Everywhere. Her first book, Selling The Dream: The Billion Dollar Industry Bankrupting America came out last month. We're talking all about Jane's work along with money, class, aging, ambition, the scam of "soulmates" and a whole lot more.
You can find Jane at: https://www.jane-marie.com/ You can find Kim on her Substack: kimfrance.substack.com NEW: you can find Jenn on her substack: jennromolini.substack.com You can pre-order Jenn's book, AMBITION MONSTER: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ambition-Monster/Jennifer-Romolini/9781668056585 Concerns? Critiques? Suggestions? Just want to say "hi"? You can email us: everythingisfinethepodcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

'Selling the Dream' — with Jane Marie

This week! Marriage and necks and turtlenecks and moisturizers and re-watching "Sex and the City" plus listener questions and a whole lot more! You can find Kim on her Substack: kimfrance.substack.com NEW: you can find Jenn on her substack: jennromolini.substack.com You can pre-order Jenn's book, AMBITION MONSTER: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ambition-Monster/Jennifer-Romolini/9781668056585 Concerns? Critiques? Suggestions? Just want to say "hi"? You can email us: everythingisfinethepodcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aging necks & turtleneck tyranny

Our guest this week is New York Magazine Features Writer Emily Gould. Emily was previously an editor at Gawker and a publisher of Emily Books, an imprint of Coffee House Press focusing on women’s first-person writing. She is the author of the novels PERFECT TUNES and FRIENDSHIP and the essay collection AND THE HEART SAYS WHATEVER and, most recently, she wrote the moving essay "The Lure of Divorce," which we talk about a lot in this episode, along with mental health crises, two-writer marriages, being "famous in Midtown," the great media scourge, ambition later in life and a lot more. 
You can find Kim on her Substack: kimfrance.substack.com You can pre-order Jenn's book, AMBITION MONSTER: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ambition-Monster/Jennifer-Romolini/9781668056585 To follow Jenn's beauty recs: instagram.com/jennromolinisvanity/ Concerns? Critiques? Suggestions? Just want to say "hi"? You can email us: everythingisfinethepodcast@gmail.com

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Shorts I'll Never Wear

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