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🗓️ 9 March 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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This week on Blocked and Reported, Katie is joined by novelist, poet, and critic Leigh Stein to discuss scandals in the worlds of sci-fi fantasy and poetry.
Leigh Stein: Self-Care
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0:25.9 | This is blocked and reported. I'm Katie Herzog and sitting in with me today while my very sweaty co-host Jesse Single is waiting in line to be number 42 at Aila's birthday gang bang. We have Lee Stein. Lee is an author and commentator and I thought that she came on the show after the publication of her very funny and astute book Self Care |
0:31.2 | in 2020, but Lee I was trying to find a link to that |
0:33.8 | episode for the show notes and it does not seem to exist that I did I imagine |
0:37.6 | that were you not on the show Katie I think you're forgetting that I |
0:40.4 | platformed you when I invited you to my very intimate Zoom event of a hundred |
0:46.9 | guests with Jesse and Cat Rosenfeld and Phoebe Maltz-Bovey for self-care but it was a debacle because word got out that |
0:56.2 | you had appeared on my Zoom and a professional book critic taddled on me to my book publisher and I was also kicked out of a networking |
1:04.7 | group for journalists. Oh well. Wow. |
1:07.4 | We're committing guilt by association. Yes, let me guess. |
1:10.7 | 2020, was this 2020? |
1:13.0 | Summer of 2020, never forget. |
1:15.1 | The good old days, I sort of miss that. |
1:17.6 | Well, my apologies for getting that wrong. |
1:20.9 | Welcome to the show for the first time, I guess. |
1:22.4 | Thank you. I did have a |
1:23.5 | vague recollection of that draw of the like the post zoom drama because I remember buying 10 copies of your book as because this person was trying to punish you and I sent them to like different to people like the first 10 people who replied to a tweet and I had one leftover and I gave it to my nephew for his third birthday. |
1:47.4 | He might be at the age now when he can read it. He loves satirical depictions of the wellness industry. |
1:54.8 | It was a great book I should say. |
1:56.3 | Are you working on anything now? |
1:57.9 | Yeah I'm actually working on a book about Tik-Tok. |
1:59.8 | Oh, all right you'll have to come back on when that's when that's out. |
2:02.8 | Yes. |
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