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🗓️ 4 September 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Author and Cosmopolitan op-ed editor Jessica Goodman is here to talk about her new book, “They Wish They Were Us” which is like if Gossip Girl and Riverdale had a baby and the baby wanted to do some murder. We also talk about avoiding the “dead girl” trope of true crime, saving the USPS with Jessica’s rec, and Caroline switches her recommendation at the VERY LAST SECOND.
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0:41.0 | about what we just bought and what you might need to buy next. |
0:43.6 | I'm your host, Caroline Moss, and today I am joined by a very special guest. |
0:47.8 | Jessica Goodman is the op-ed editor at Cosmopolitan, and she is the author of the brand new her debut book they wish they were us |
0:56.1 | which I read in one sitting and it is so good. Jessica, welcome. |
1:05.0 | Thank you so much. It's so fun to be here. |
1:08.0 | I'm so happy to have you here. Now if you somehow live under a rock and haven't heard anything about they wish they were us. |
1:14.0 | First of all, like best cover ever. Best cover ever. So good. |
1:20.0 | I'm obsessed with the cover when my publisher said it they sent like you know |
1:23.6 | comps of like what it could be I was just like this is exactly what I want from a |
1:28.0 | young adult thriller it is so good it's it's like friendship necklaces with the words they wish they were us, the last |
1:35.9 | necklaces with the word us, it's broken, there's blood all over it, it's like a preppy flannel |
1:41.4 | background, it's like delicious. So this book is and I and Jessica and I talked like right |
1:46.4 | before we went to record and I was like please tell me exactly like what I'm allowed to say because one time I |
1:52.4 | spoiled like a brand new book for a lot of people and |
1:56.6 | Still have nightmares about it so so and Jessica scream if I say too much but basically the book is a it's a prep school murder mystery. |
2:04.8 | I described it to somebody as Gossip girl meets Riverdale. |
2:08.6 | Perfect. |
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