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🗓️ 6 May 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon talks with author author Curtis Sittenfeld about her new book Romantic Comedy.
They discuss why ordinary guys get to be with famous women, but usually not the other way around, the fun of writing a fictional version of Saturday Night Live, and how to write witty email exchanges.
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| 0:00.0 | Time for Diet Coke, mate. Yes, yes, yes! |
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| 0:15.0 | I really needed that. |
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| 0:23.0 | plus hundreds of prizes curated by Kate Moss. |
| 0:26.0 | From a Paxen store, 18 plus T's and C's visit Coke.co.uk-slashbreak. |
| 0:37.0 | Welcome to GabBest Reads for the Month of May. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Emily Badlon, one of the hosts of Slays Global GabBest. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm here today with a wonderful fiction writer, Curtis Sitonfeld. |
| 0:49.0 | Hey, Curtis. |
| 0:50.0 | Hey, Emily. |
| 0:52.0 | Curtis is the author of excellent New York Times bestselling books. |
| 0:57.0 | The novels that include eligible and prep and American wife. |
| 1:02.0 | She has also written for The New Yorker and The New York Times, |
| 1:05.0 | The Atlantic, Vanity Fair. |
| 1:07.0 | She's been on this American life. |
| 1:09.0 | She deserves to be everywhere. |
| 1:11.0 | And she is the author of a new novel called Romantic Comedy, |
| 1:15.0 | which of course is a romantic comedy. |
| 1:18.0 | Do you just tell us a little bit about the premise of this novel |
| 1:21.0 | and the main characters? |
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