Paul Rudnick, PLAYING THE PALACE
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Author and screenwriter Paul Rudnick joins Zibby to talk about his latest novel, Playing the Palace. Paul shares why he wanted to write a gay romance novel rather than a coming out story, how the changing dynamics of the royal family launched by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle helped inspire this book, and what the significance of IHOP is to both him and his characters.
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| 0:40.0 | Welcome to another day of the June book blast for this podcast. This is rom-com Friday. So enjoy all of these fun, light-hearted |
| 0:47.6 | conversations about different rom-coms that I've read and profiled for the podcast. Enjoy. Paul Frednick is the author of |
| 0:56.4 | playing the palace. Paul is a novelist, playwright, essayist, and screenwriter, who the New York |
| 1:02.0 | Times has called one of our preeminent humorists. Paul is writing the book for, which means the |
| 1:07.1 | script, basically, for a Broadway musical adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada in collaboration |
| 1:12.5 | with Elton John. And I just did an event with Lauren Weisberger and had her on my podcast too. |
| 1:18.2 | And she's the author of the book, The Devil Wars Prada. Paul also wrote the script for the recent |
| 1:22.2 | HBO special Coastal Elites, a socially distanced film about the COVID-19 pandemic, which stars Bet Midler, Dan Levy, |
| 1:29.5 | Issa Ray, and Sarah Paulson. |
| 1:31.1 | Paul's plays have been produced both on and off Broadway and around the world and include |
| 1:34.7 | I Hate Hamlet, Jeffrey, the most fabulous story ever told, Falhalla, regrets only, and the new |
| 1:39.6 | century. |
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