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The Worst Bestsellers

Episode 264 – Dinner For Vampires

The Worst Bestsellers

Worst Bestsellers

Comedy, Arts, Books

4.5609 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Dinner For Vampires by Bethany Joy Lenz

Celebrity Memoir May is here! We don’t know a lot about the show One Tree Hill, but we love vampires and cults so we thought that qualified us to read Dinner For Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show While Also In An Actual Cult! by Bethany Joy Lenz. Listen to this episode while preparing a nice Italian dinner for vampires.

Readers advisory: Here.

Footnotes: Reddit post guessing who’s behind the pseudonyms used in the book

An Oral History of the Time a Dog Ate a Heart on ‘One Tree Hill’ by Andrew Gruttadaro

Coming up next: Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business by Dolly Parton.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the worst bestsellers where we read about cults and cult TV so you don't have to.

0:16.5

I'm Kate.

0:17.6

And I'm Renata.

0:18.9

And for this episode, we read Dinner for Vampires by Bethany Joy

0:22.8

Lens. And it's just us. It's just us girls. And Doris is sitting in my lap right now. So

0:29.9

before the episode's over, he's probably going to try to walk on the keyboard and make himself known

0:34.6

even ahead of his scheduled time. Yeah, that's very true.

0:40.5

Welcome to Celebrity Memoir, May, where we read Celebrity Memoirs.

0:46.4

Sometimes they're bad, and sometimes they're good.

0:48.6

And this one was riveting.

0:50.6

I feel like we have this tradition now where, like a year we read a memoir by like a woman in

0:56.7

Hollywood or the music industry who or both who we like didn't know that much about but then we

1:03.0

read her book and we're like I would die for her.

1:05.6

Yes, that is true.

1:07.2

Welcome to the club, Bethany Joy Lentz.

1:09.5

You can have a seat right over there with Leah Remini and Jessica Simpson and Elvira.

1:16.7

All the girls are here.

1:18.2

All the girls have been horribly mistreated.

1:21.0

And now you're worst of the sellers canon.

1:24.3

Hello.

1:25.9

So prior to reading this, did you have any familiarity with One Tree Hill?

1:32.4

I knew a little bit about it.

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