June 2026 Three Things

Bad On Paper

Becca Freeman

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Happy Three Things Day! We have a very bookish set of Three Things, from buzzy book discourse, upsetting rebrands, first lines, bedding recommendations, and a call to action for you!

Shared Things

Join our Facebook Group to cast your vote for our July Book Club Pick!

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

Becca's Things

Polar Seltzer's visual rebrand

Our sheets philosophies

Olivia's Things

"High Concept" Novels

Favorite first lines of books

June's Book Club Pick - Almost Life by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

What we read this week

Becca - Off Campus

Olivia - Trader Joe's

Obsession

Becca - Sandwich by Catherine Newman

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone and welcome to Bad on Paper podcast. I'm Olivia Mentor. And I'm Becca Freeman. And today is our June episode for three things. It is. It is. I have all bookish three things, I fear. I was not sure if we were moving forward with having an overlap thing or not. So I have possibly four things if we didn't do that. We'll see.
0:39.5	We will see. Well, what's your high? Okay, my high is that grace has been just all over the place
0:45.9	talking well behind my back and it's making me feel so emotional. So first, the other day,
0:52.3	she texted me and she was like, I snuck a mention for back where we
0:57.3	started, my book that comes out in October, into she did a guest post for Jenna Bush Hager's
1:02.9	newsletter. So that was so nice of her. And then this morning, I woke up to a DM from Joe Piazza.
1:10.2	Grace is on a writing retreat right now. And Joe was like,
1:13.7	Grace can't stop talking about how good your book is. And like, can I get an arc of it so that I can
1:17.5	shout about it. I was like, oh my gosh, this is so nice. Like the wing womanhood of this.
1:23.9	That's wonderful. I read that post that she did for Jenna's substack, and it was so good and so many great tips.
1:30.5	And I'd love to see the mention of your book.
1:32.7	And I can't wait to get an arc myself.
1:35.6	Well, so I'm just adding myself onto the list once again with Joe.
1:40.4	I could request it on a neck galley, but that feels kind of weird.
1:43.3	You can do both.
1:48.8	Like, I kind of want the physical, because as you know, I like to read on a physical. No, I feel like you like deduct half a point for reading digitally. No. That's why I'm waiting. I'm waiting.
1:56.5	Like any book that I, for example, I just got approved for Barbara King Solver's new book on neck gallery. No, don't do that. And I want it so bad, but then I'm like, but will I enjoy it more if I read it physically? Anyway, I've already told you I want a physical arc, but I'm waiting patiently. But that's so wonderful and so nice. And I can't wait to hear and see more about that retreat because it looked very cool.
2:18.2	What about you? Tell me your high.
2:20.2	My high is a big one. It's that we destroyed our entire kitchen.
2:23.9	But in a good way.
2:24.9	In a good way, yeah. It feels like not the best time maybe. There's a lot going on.
2:30.8	But it also just feels like we've been waiting for this moment for so long.
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