Glamorous Trash Talk: Writing a Memoir (with London Hughes)

Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast

Chelsea Devantez

Society & Culture, Arts, Books

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Chelsea sits down with London Hughes (To Catch a Dick) to ask her 10 questions for memoirists. They discuss London’s brand-new book, Living My Best Live Hun, including 24 hour meetings with Kevin Hart, racist editors, and other books we want to emulate in our own writing. Show Notes: Normal Family - https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/chrysta-bilton/normal-family/9780316536523/?lens=little-brown I Heart Mess Newsletter - https://www.iheartmess.com/ London Hughes' Living My Best Life Hun - https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/london-hughes/living-my-best-life-hun/9781538722459/?lens=grand-central-publishing Where to find our Guest: London Hughes Instagram Glamorous Trash: Where we make treasure out of pop culture garbage. Glamorous Trash is all about going high and low at the same time— Glam and Trash. We recap and book club celebrity memoirs, deconstruct pop culture, and sometimes, we cry! If you've ever referenced Mariah Carey in therapy... then this is the podcast for you. Thank you to our sponsors: Tanteo Tequila -- @tanteotequila Natalie's Juice Company -- @nataliesoj Pattern Brands - @patternbrands For more book recaps & gentle tea, follow Chelsea on Instagram @chelseadevantez Become a member of the Celebrity Book Club Patreon!

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0:00.0	You know I'm out of info and just plain white trash, but right to girls in my mind.
0:05.6	Welcome to Glamrs Trash, formerly known as Celebrity Book Club.
0:09.3	On this podcast, we recap and book club celebrity memoirs, pontificate about pop culture
0:13.3	and sometimes, we cry.
0:15.0	If you've ever referenced Maria Carey in therapy, then this is probably the podcast for you.
0:19.7	I'm your host, Chelsea Devantes, I'm a TV writer, comedian and filmmaker and sometimes
0:23.6	I'm in stuff too.
0:25.2	And this is a Glamrs Trash Talk episode where we are going to interview another memoirist,
0:32.4	an author who wrote a memoir and I have 10 juicy questions and when we're going to pop
0:37.9	through them all, possibly this will be an ongoing series of talking to memoirists.
0:43.8	It's a genre I am obviously obsessed with, both celebrity and non celebrity memoirists.
0:50.4	I just love memoirs, I love nonfiction.
0:53.0	So let's see how it goes, maybe we'll do more, maybe this is the last one.
0:57.8	Let's find out.
0:58.8	I'm also going to take a moment to tell you two things I have been absolutely loving at
1:04.2	the top of this episode and then we will get into our interview.
1:07.4	The first is a memoir, a V called Normal Family by Christa built in, it came out in 2022.
1:15.9	The subtitle is on truth, love and how I met my 35 siblings, a doozy.
1:21.9	I was tagged in posts about this book when it first came out because Christa is a donor
1:26.5	conceived person and so am I.
1:29.1	And when I was getting tagged, I was like, no, I don't, I can't go spend more time with
1:34.4	this.
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