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Welcome to GabBest Reads for the Month of May. I'm Emily Badlon, one of the hosts of Slate's

Global GabBest. I'm here today with a wonderful fiction writer, Curtis sit and

spelled, hey, Curtis. Hey, Emily. Curtis is the author of Excellent New York Times best-selling

books, the novels that include eligible and prep and American wife. She has also written for the

New Yorker and the New York Times, the Atlantic, Vanity Fair. She's been on this American life. She

deserves to be everywhere. And she is the author of a new novel called Romantic Comedy, which of course

is a Romantic comedy. Could you just tell us a little bit about the premise of this novel and

the main characters? Yes. So the main character is a woman named Sally, who's in her late 30s,

and works for a late night sketch comedy show in New York that bears a significant resemblance

to Saturday Night Live. And she's, she's worked there for nine years. She writes a sketch

kind of making fun of the phenomenon of men dating up, generally like sort of

talented but ordinary looking men dating super gorgeous, super successful world famous women,

which happens at the show and also of course happens in real life. And she's mocking how this

wouldn't really happen with an ordinary woman and a super hot famous male celebrity. And then that

weeks guest host and musical guest or one in the same are a charming smoking hot pop singer named Noah.

And she thinks there might be chemistry, but is it all in her head or is it real?

And what intrigued you about this setup? Why are you interested in this idea of, you know,

an obvious double standard? You have a lot of fun with one of Sally's friends and another writer

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