Ep 743 - The Sellout, by Paul Beatty

This week's book examines the Asian-American experience through the age-old phenomenon of Hollywood typecasting. And there's an intentionally porous line that separates this book's "reality" from the rest of it, which kind-of-sort-of takes place inside of a formulaic police proce ...  Show more

We jump way ahead in the sequence of the series (but not in the lives of our sitters, who remain stubbornly trapped in the Eighth Grade Time Loop), well into the books' ghostwritten era. This week we meet Abby, an acerbic new member of the Club, and we also meet ghostwriter Nola ...  Show more

Film Critic Amy Nicholson joins Greta to walk us through her alternative high school vibe in San Antonio, TX from 1993-1997. From being tricked into going to an all-girls Catholic school to altering all her mandated uniforms to fit her funky style, Amy's teenage years were filled ...  Show more

This week, Elna and Knoxville take a walk through history to share the story of Russia's Con Queen, a beautiful and charismatic criminal named Sonya Goldenhand. We also learn about Elna's patented "conference hall" scheme, and her experiences with pretty woman privilege.

In this episode we explore some of the strange goings-on in the earlier days of Russian Hill in San Francisco, including the ill-fated union of a Russian count and Spainish maiden, the first legal execution in California history, seances, the arrival of Fanny Stevenson to the ...

Avec Clara Luciani et Laura Felpin.  Présenté par Florent Bernard et Adrien Ménielle.  On en parle de choses dans cet épisode : d’adolescence, de partir à Paris, de la mort, de places de concerts, de passer son permis, d’imiter des chansons et d’un petit personnage de dessin-anim ...  Show more