87: The Night Call Book Club Special: Valley of the Dolls
Night Call
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
This week, Night Call is unlocking their Valley of the Dolls book club episode, previously only available for Patreon supporters. Escape from your family this Thanksgiving with Jacqueline Susann's 1966 proto-beach-read, or impress your grandparents with your new knowledge about the author's famous poodle Josephine. The ladies of Night Call delve into petty icon Jackie Susann's subtle (and not-so-subtle) airing of celebrity dirty laundry, the book's origins in '50s showbiz, the real-life midcentury pill epidemic, and of course, our personal Dollstrology.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | Welcome to Nightcall, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:09.6 | Hey there, this is Emily from Nightcall. |
| 0:12.6 | This episode this week is one of our Patreon book club episodes. |
| 0:16.7 | It's actually our first ever Patreon book club episode from back in June about Valley of the Dolls. |
| 0:22.5 | You can subscribe to our Patreon at patreon.com slash nightcall to get the book club episodes when they drop every month. |
| 0:29.5 | Our next book club episode will be out on December 15th. |
| 0:33.2 | But enjoy, meanwhile, our Valley of the Dolls episode, out from the paywall. |
| 0:38.7 | And we'll see you next week on Night Call. |
| 0:44.7 | You all going to wait for me back. |
| 0:48.2 | It's 1.15 a.m. at the El Morocco. |
| 0:52.0 | And you are listening to the Night Call Book Club. |
| 0:55.4 | Hello and welcome to Night Call. |
| 1:10.4 | This is our first ever book club podcast. We have been really |
| 1:14.7 | excited to do this for our Patreon supporters. My name is Emily Yoshida and with me as always |
| 1:22.0 | on the other end of the line in Los Angeles. I have Molly Lambert and Tess Lynch. Hello. Hello. Hello. |
| 1:31.4 | Book club number one, Valley of the Dolls. Maybe we should explain a little bit why this was our |
| 1:38.0 | first ever book club pick, especially, you know, because Tess is the one of us who has already read it |
| 1:43.8 | before and was familiar |
| 1:45.0 | with it. Tess, why don't you let us know why this call that to nightclub book call? So I couldn't |
| 1:50.9 | believe that you guys hadn't read Valley of the Dolls. We were working through all of these possible |
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