S08.24: Sincerely, Your Inconvenient Wife by Julia Wolf

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🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Things are looking very wild out here in the real world so you deserve a deep dive on a book by an author with a big backlist and we are here to give you just that! Today's episode is on Sincerely, Your Inconvenient Wife, a modern day marriage of convenience story from Julia Wolf's The Harder They Fall series. We talk about fake husbands down bad, family drama, and the charm of an author building a big universe for all their characters to live in forever.

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Notes

How the great blizzard of 2026 stacked up with previous blizzards. Seems like Providence was a bad place to be. The winner of this year’s Chicago’s snowplow naming contest: Abolish ICE.
Everyone loves Bad Bunny.
Ryan Coogler gave a beautiful speech about love at the BAFTA awards. Watch Jayme Lawson from the NAACP Awards give a brilliant explanation of why BAFTA and BBC are to blame for the events at this year’s BAFTA awards.
We have both been reading a lot of Julia Wolf books ever since our New Year’s Milkin’ Eve episode.
Wyoming is a very big state with a very small population, so small in fact that there are 117 counties that have a bigger population than the entire state. You can play around with comparing populations using this map tool from Slate.
The other books we mentioned this episode by Julia Wolf: a rock star romance, Built to Fall. Saoirse’s brother’s book is Sweet Like Poison. Luca’s sister’s book is In the Details.

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0:00.0	Well, it's a blizzard.
0:02.1	It is a blizzard.
0:03.5	And everybody, not that it's a real deal blizzard.
0:07.1	Not that it's about me, but I was supposed to go to New York this weekend and woke up on, I guess it was Saturday morning and was like, so I think we should cancel because I do not want to get stuck in New York.
0:22.7	I mean, I love New York, but I would have been stuck.
0:24.8	You would have been stuck, but not for as long as.
0:26.9	So everybody, I'm from Rhode Island and my mom still lives there and my sister still lives there.
0:31.5	And the snow has not yet finished there.
0:34.5	The snow has finished here and we tapped out at 22 inches here at my house with a ruler in our backyard. And my mother's house in Rhode Island is it is still snowing and they are already at 32 inches. That's insane.
0:54.7	Which is everybody a fucking lot of snow.
0:58.5	Like, and it's also not light.
1:00.9	You know, there are different kinds of snow.
1:02.4	This is really, really good snowman snow.
1:06.2	Like, it's sticky.
1:07.5	It like holds together.
1:09.9	It's heavy snow. Like, I was looking at our deck which is made of
1:15.5	wood and definitely falling apart um and I was like I wonder if this is going to hold oh yeah I felt
1:23.3	that weight on it with all that snow on it I'll never forget when we had that blizzard in 2011,
1:29.8	like I, you know, kind of dutifully put on my snow pants. Like once it stopped, I was like,
1:33.4	okay, we're going to go out and start like working the snow. Because that's the thing. It's like
1:37.4	all fun and games when you're sitting in there just looking at it pretty, but then you have to go
1:41.4	out there. And I took like sort of a step off of like our
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