ICYMI - It’s International Bestselling Author Quan Millz
Slate Books
Slate Podcasts
3.8 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are joined by Wired senior writer and producer of Black Twitter: A People’s History, Jason Parham, to attempt to explain the enigma that is “international bestselling author” Quan Millz. With titles like Old THOT Next Door and My Baby Daddy Is A Bedbug, Millz’s books have no trouble capturing the attention of the internet, so much so that the previously-anonymous author was forced to unmask himself to ward off a potential scandal. But who, exactly, are Millz’s books for? And the even more ominous question: What will he do next?
This podcast is produced by Daisy Rosario, Vic Whitley-Berry, Candice Lim, and Kate Lindsay, with help from A.C. Valdez.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Candace Lim. And I'm Kate Lindsay. And you're listening to I see why am I. |
| 0:18.3 | In case you missed it. Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:22.2 | And Kate, you and I are both big readers. |
| 0:24.9 | I have to ask, has anyone by the name of Kwan Mills popped up on your for-you page lately? |
| 0:31.2 | They have not. |
| 0:32.6 | And now I'm feeling like I'm about to learn about a big gap in my reading history. |
| 0:39.7 | Uh-huh, uh-huh. |
| 0:40.6 | Open up the good reads, Kate. |
| 0:42.0 | It's time to clock in. |
| 0:50.7 | Well, here's a deal. |
| 0:52.5 | Instead of telling you about him, I'm going to introduce you the way he introduced himself to me with a little montage collected by our wonderful producer, Vic Whitley Barry. |
| 1:04.0 | It's me again. International bestselling author, Kwan Mills. Well, hello there. It's me again. International bestselling author, Kwan Mills. Well, hello there. It's me again. |
| 1:11.8 | International bestselling author, Kwan Mills. |
| 1:14.4 | Taddles! |
| 1:15.8 | It's me again. |
| 1:18.0 | International bestselling author, Kwan Mills. |
| 1:21.2 | With another wretched binger. |
| 1:24.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:25.5 | And then to put icing on top of the |
| 1:28.9 | Kwan Mills fan girl cake I baked, |
| 1:31.6 | I will play you just one more clip so you can get |
| 1:34.1 | more of a sense of exactly what kind of genre |
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