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Throwing Fits

Clown Era with Marisa Meltzer

Throwing Fits

Throwing Fits

Arts, Fashion & Beauty

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

We’re headed into the gloss on this week’s interview with our old pal, writer and author of the upcoming book Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier, Marisa Meltzer. Marisa came through to leave it all out on the field to talk line editing James’ brother’s wedding vows, her terminal case of vacation shopping disease, not letting other people’s trash swag ruin your favorite brands, clowncore, tasteful and cheap goth moms, what her new book is all about, going up against the Glossier army, tips for engaging terminator mode so you can stay objective when interviewing celebs, Substack shawties, podcast princesses and the entrepreneurial spirit of today’s content creators, the duality of readings, how a writer can reach Gen Z’s atrophied brains, book advances, unlocking the second location, trying to go hiking with Britney Spears’ soon-to-be ex-husband, the cult of personality leap of faith, turbo Miami press trip plus-ones, her Dimes Square OG status, bachelorette party vibes ruining dinner, an undying love for Subway sandwiches, thoughts on the hetero menswear zeitgeist, a literal cursed first date and much more on this intriguingly insider episode of The Only Podcast That Matters™.

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0:00.0

She's glossy. She's the first one to write about white. She switched up the publishing price. That's right. She got the scoop on the girl boss unicorn

0:23.1

and that's right. She's writing up lifestyle porn. She's glossy. Thrill gang. We are joined by the profile princess. The girl bossie of the Glossier. She must play weddings because she's making bands off the covers.

0:33.7

Grand Dame with a deadline. She got M's bubbling. That's that Meltzer. Your bags made up her bags make up the interview you mom. The boss bitch of the byline. Your portfolio in debt. Her portfolio in depth. The

0:43.8

correspondence queen. All this ink sheet but she ain't playing no squid games. The first lady of lifestyle. The exposé emerati melts on the page. Not in your hand. Writer an author of glossy ambition beauty and the inside

0:55.1

story of Emily Weiss's Glossier. Marissa Meltzer. How the hell are you? I think that's the second time you seeming crime.

1:01.7

What was the first time at his brother's wedding? Oh, you know, I cried at my speech. No, my speech.

1:08.8

Oh, you spend more time. Did you spend more time on your brother's wedding speech or your intro for Marissa about equal? Both kept me up in. I edited your your own brother's vows a little bit. Yeah,

1:21.5

shout out. Just a little top edit. If you have a line edit as we say in the business, you have writer editor friends. Why not? Right.

1:27.6

Exactly. I mean, that's what I always say is my free service. Oh, you didn't charge Ian. How nice of you.

1:36.5

Ian. Could he even afford you? Yes, he can. He can afford you. But I think Ian. Ian is owed a lot for all of the all of all that I inflicted into his life.

1:48.0

Oh, I like that choice of words. Yeah, inflict. We're going to go with that. There's a lot. There's a lot of baggage that comes with his wife's friend.

1:56.4

The slate is clean. And now you and I have become friends through my brother and his wife. And now you're on the

2:01.9

only podcast matters talking about arguably one of the only books that matter dropping this fall. But first, yeah,

2:07.9

let's do a little fit check. Thank you so much for joining us, Marissa. Congrats on the new book. Thank you.

2:12.3

I hope this is the highlight of your press junket. Obviously. It was harder to get on this podcast than on the Vogue podcast.

2:21.5

Really? Well, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, shout out us, I guess. Do you get to submit your email to get on the Vogue podcast?

2:28.3

Like a thousand times, like when you tried to go to their website, the fuck is up with that?

2:32.3

It's just paid walls. Is that what it's not paid wall? It's like.

2:34.3

And NAS has some very odd, like, uh, I don't know, like grab, you know, yeah, they

2:39.9

popped you many times. If you go to Vogue and they're like, enter email, you enter email,

2:43.9

then you're like, you say, let's say you go to like, you know, AD or or digest, they're like,

2:48.1

give me your email. You're like, bitch, I was just on a fucking con day now. It's hard. Also,

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