Episode 172 – No Walls And The Recurring Dream
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2021
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
We wanted to bring some girl power to Celebrity Memoir May, so returning guest Sophi joined us to read No Walls And The Recurring Dream by Ani DiFranco. If you”re thinking that that title is a little wordy and incoherent, you have a good idea of what the book is like. Listen to hear three long-time Ani DiFranco fans learn that you should never meet your heroes, or read their memoirs.
Content warning: This book contains descriptions of child neglect and sexual assault.
Readers advisory: Here.
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Ani DiFranco Is Tired of Talking About Herself (So Here She Goes Again) by Rich Juzwiak
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about the insufferability of not selling out so you don't have to. |
| 0:18.7 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:19.4 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:24.1 | And for this episode, we read No Walls and the Recurring Dream by Ani DeFranco. Joining us to discuss this memoir of gaslighting, gatekeeping, and |
| 0:30.7 | girl bossing is friend of the show and world class chess champion, Sophie. Hi. First of all, I need to clarify two things. |
| 0:40.0 | One, that it's just world chess champion. |
| 0:42.2 | And two, that Sophie is not actually the world chess champion. |
| 0:45.9 | No, I, no, that's a lie. |
| 0:47.7 | I am a world class chess champion. |
| 0:50.3 | Everything she just said is true. |
| 0:53.9 | Welcome back to the show, Sophie this is really it's really an |
| 0:57.7 | appropriate time for you to be here it's an honor to be here on this episode of behind the bastards |
| 1:04.8 | colon audie de franco so sophie's been on for a few other episodes before, and I don't remember what they are right now, |
| 1:15.7 | and that's fine. |
| 1:16.6 | It's flowers in the attic and the selection. |
| 1:20.7 | Okay, yeah, some classics. |
| 1:21.7 | Oh, my God, I forgot about the selection as a concept entirely. |
| 1:27.9 | That's privilege. |
| 1:30.9 | I wish I could live without that knowledge. |
| 1:34.2 | But it's really important because Sophie has been friends with us since like high school days. |
| 1:40.5 | Yeah, I think probably since I was like 15 and you guys were like 16 and 17. |
| 1:47.4 | That sounds. |
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