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Bad On Paper

Grace Is Back! (With Big Book News!)

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

SO excited to have bestie of the pod (and co-host emeritus), Grace Atwood, on to talk about what she's been up to lately, specifically the joy of starting to write a novel! 

 

What we read this week

Olivia - You Between the Lines by Katie Naymon, Under Story by Chloe Benjamin, Warning Signs by Tracy Sierra, A Visit from the Good Squad by Jennifer Egan

Becca - Lake Effect by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

 

Grace's Recent Reads

In Her Defense by Philippa Malicka, The Force of Such Beauty by Barbara Bourland, Strangers by Belle Burden, The Storm by Rachel Hawkins, Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser, Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 

 

March's Book Club Pick - So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder

 

Obsession

Becca - American Girls and Taste Back by Harry Styles

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, everyone back to Bad on Paper podcast. I'm Becca Freeman. And I'm Olivia Mentor.

0:22.8

And I have a new microphone. And I hope it's working. I can hear you. Good. I also have more... So we're halfway there.

0:29.5

I also have more background noise than usual. My friend Molly slept over and is in the other room taking

0:34.2

call. So I keep getting snippets of it. And I hope you're not.

0:38.3

There's also construction on the other side of me. So we're dealing with a lot of interference.

0:43.1

I am in a hotel room that sounds like there's some sort of a, like I don't even know,

0:49.4

a mechanical room next to me or something. So we have a lot happening.

0:53.4

What a quality audio experience we're

0:55.3

delivering today. But I think that's the purpose of these mics is that they filter out a lot.

1:00.7

Hopefully. But either way, we're here. I feel like it is worth it because we have a perennial most in

1:09.6

demand guest, Grace is back today. And she has news. Yes, I'm so excited to catch up.

1:16.3

Me too. But before we talk to Grace, we could have invited her for highs and low as we didn't. We'll ask her what her high and low is in the interview. What is your high?

1:25.5

My high is that spring is coming.

1:27.9

I finally believe.

1:29.1

I didn't believe for a long time.

1:30.9

But the snow melted this past week.

1:33.5

We had two days in the 70s, which was honestly a little too much, too fast for me.

1:39.6

I was like, my 60s would have been fine.

1:42.0

I was sweating at night.

1:43.5

I was like, I know. I can't go from

1:45.7

like my room being 58 degrees to 68 degrees. That's too much of a swing. I like a more gradual

1:53.3

return to the season, but I think we're going to get that. But anyway, I still enjoyed it. I was

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