The GOOP Face Oil Edition

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Investing, Business

4.1 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week, Taffy Brodesser-Akner comes on the show to talk about her New York Times Magazine piece on the arbitration against Sterling Jewelers, the parent company that owns brands like Kay, Jared and Zales. Plus, Taffy weighs in on the celebrity industrial complex -- a topic she knows a lot about after spending 8 months with Gwyneth Paltrow for a story. And in the Slate Plus segment: Chip and Joanna Gaines’ new network. Email: slatemoney@slate.com Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Goop face oil edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business
0:19.7	and finance news of the week. I'm Felix Saman of Axios and Anna Shimanski is here and
0:27.2	Emily Peck of the Huffington Post is here but we have most excitingly in the studio
0:32.4	the greatest magazine writer of all time.
0:35.0	Taffy Brodessa Agna, you are the famous...
0:40.0	It is true, actually.
0:42.0	We have talked about your pieces on this show before and we will continue to talk about them every time they come out more or less because everyone is amazing
0:49.0	But this week you have a non-celebrity huge piece in the New York Times magazine
0:59.6	about Sterling Jewelers and their evil ways.
1:03.8	And we're going to talk all about that.
1:05.1	But we are also going to talk about some of the other stuff
1:07.7	you've written about and the whole celebrity industrial complex.
1:12.0	You are a staff writer at the New York Times magazine, but you also have this book which everyone
1:18.1	can't wait to come out.
1:19.1	So what is the book that is coming out?
1:20.9	It's a novel.
1:21.7	It's called Fleischman is in trouble and it is coming to you
1:25.3	to you June 18th from Random House. That's so soon. It's very soon.
1:30.3	Everyone I know who has read this book has said it's the best novel of all time.
1:34.0	No, have they read Anna Karen?
1:37.0	Is it on a scale of like one to Anna Karenina would you where would I I would say I mean I would say it's the natural sequel
1:47.6	Anna Corona It's a great companion a little dirtier. It's a filthy New Jersey novel. Oh yeah.
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