Dear Prudence: The “Good (Not Great) Sex” Edition
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Prudence is joined this week by Sarah Shourd, a multi-media journalist based in Oakland, California. Her work combines fiction with rigorous journalism to elevate marginalized voices. She’s now working collaboratively on a graphic novel as a JSK Fellow at Stanford.
Together they tackle letters about what to do when you find yourself with diminishing social invitations because of your sickliness, how to handle your husband who wants to reconnect with his friend who was convicted of possession of child pornography, how to put the brakes on a new overbearing friendship without offending them, what to consider when the love of your life offers you good (not great) sex, how to handle a soon to be sister-in-law who demands that you remove pictures of your brother’s deceased first wife from your home.
Slate Plus members will hear Prudie and Sarah discuss a letter writer who is wondering how to stop her distant family members from using her beach house without causing a family rift. Not yet a member? Sign up at Slate.com/PrudiePod.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.4 | You're listening to this week's excerpt from the Dear Prudence podcast. |
| 0:06.5 | To get the full-length, members-only version every week, join Slate Plus at slate.com slash Prudypod. |
| 0:16.6 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:17.8 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:18.9 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:20.9 | Dear Prudence. Dear Prudy. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. |
| 0:21.5 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:22.1 | Dear Prudy. |
| 0:23.9 | Do you think that I should contact him again? |
| 0:27.2 | Help. |
| 0:27.7 | Help. |
| 0:28.2 | Thanks. |
| 0:28.5 | Thanks. |
| 0:29.1 | Thank you. |
| 0:29.6 | Hello. |
| 0:43.3 | Hello. Hello and welcome back to The Dear Prudence Show. |
| 0:48.0 | Once again, and as always, I am your host, Dear Prudence, also known as Daniel Mallory Ortberg. |
| 0:53.5 | With me this week in the studio is Sarah Shored, a multimedia journalist based in Oakland, California. Her work combines the tools of fiction with rigorous journalism to elevate marginalized voices. She's worked in print, theater, podcasting, and is now working collaboratively on a graphic novel as a JSK fellow at Stanford. Sarah, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me here. Thank you so much for coming all the way up from the peninsula to the East Bay. Oh, my God, my pleasure. I definitely, this is the first time that I've lived outside of Oakland for a minute, maybe five or six years, so I definitely need to come back and get my Oakland fix. |
| 1:21.8 | I spent a couple of years as a teenager living on the peninsula, and while it was very exciting to have gone to the same |
| 1:29.3 | high school as one of the members of Fleetwood Mac, I also really enjoyed getting out of there. |
| 1:35.1 | I bet. Yeah, it was, yeah, if I ever run into Stevie Nix, I will have something to talk to her about. But, |
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