#20 Melissa Broder (@sosadtoday) - Is Social Media Like Drugs?

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Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

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🗓️ 9 July 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Melissa Broder is the author of four poetry collections. She is also the author of the new essay collection, SO SAD TODAY (Scribe 2016). The book is of the same name as the extremely popular account @sosadtoday which has amassed nearly 400,000 followers to date, including celebrity fans such as Sky Ferreira, Miley Cyrus and Katy Perry. In May 2015 Broder went public as the creator of the account in Rolling Stone magazine (so rock and roll). Her book, So Sad Today speaks about her former addiction to drugs and alcohol, her eating disorders, love/relationships and therapy. Melissa is also a part time astrologer and creates the brilliant horoscopes for Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner’s Lenny Letter.

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm welcome back to Control Alt Delete. This is episode 20.
0:04.0	Can't believe I've done 20 episodes.
0:06.0	This is quite the milestone.
0:07.0	So thanks for tuning in and I hope you've enjoyed all of the podcasts leading up to this one.
0:13.0	There's so many more to come, so stay tuned.
0:16.0	So really excited about today's episode,
0:18.0	I have Melissa Broder, as my guest,
0:20.0	who is the author of four poetry collections, and she's also the author of the essay
0:24.6	collection So Sad Today which is published by Scribe in the UK and Grand Central
0:29.6	publishing in the US. The book is of the same name as the extremely popular So Sad Today account on
0:35.5	Twitter which currently is nearly at 400,000 followers. This account has grown
0:40.3	over the last few years and attracted loads of fans including celebrities such
0:45.3	as Myly Cyrus and Katie Perry and as of last year Melissa went public as the
0:51.3	creator of the account and actually revealed herself in
0:54.4	quite a rock and roll way in Rolling Stone. Her book So Sad Today includes lots of
0:59.3	personal essays on her former addictions to drugs and alcohol, eating disorders, love, therapy, and she writes
1:06.2	about lots of different relationships she's had and it really is like no other book I've
1:10.8	read before. Melissa is also a part-time astrologer and she
1:14.1	creates the brilliant horoscopes for Lena Dunum and Jenny Corner's Lenny
1:17.5	letter. So I hope you enjoy this episode. I loved speaking to Melissa. She is just so brilliant and I really hope you enjoy
1:24.9	listening to this one. Here it is. Thank you so much Melissa for coming on the
1:30.3	podcast. Thanks for having me. Obviously this podcast does talk about
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