Media referenced in the episode includes:

Better Than Before, by Gretchen Rubin

David Rakoff on Rent / transcript

More David Rakoff

Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff

"No More Little White Gloves": Sarah Kernochan's 'All I Wanna Do' by Melissa

You Have to Fail A Little by Melissa

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

Apocalypse Now

Goodreads

Book Riot Read Harder challenge

Dear Heartbreak, edited by Heather Demetrios

ALA Awards

The Season of Styx Malone, by Kekla Magoon

Coretta Scott King awards

Maslow's hierarchy of needs

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