The Mary H.K. Choi Interview with Throwing Fits
Throwing Fits
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🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Our interview with Mary H.K. Choi is a guaranteed best-seller. Mary—New York Times best-selling author whose new novel, Pool House, is out June 9th—made her glorious return to the show to chat with us about her garmento father, autism-friendly bras, hacking the hang, a bone we have to pick with her, pending book dedications, how the hell do you even market a book in 2026, if we're past Korea's peak soft power, Los Angeles isn't hell but it might be purgatory, the weird way best-seller lists work, making the jump from the YA world, exploring her latest set of characters and who might play them in a movie, adapting her own work for the worlds of television and film, how to write good sex scenes, her books have actually been banned which is very sick, rules for author portraits, when it comes to celebrity book clubs do they actually know ball, defending the performative male, profiling us for personalized book recs, she's prepping for a hero dose of psychedelics, short stories are basically reels, and much more on Mary H.K. Choi's interview with The Only Podcast That Matters™.
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| 0:00.0 | Our guest this week is penning Paige Turner's all the way from the poolhouse. |
| 0:04.0 | Her writing must have had his balls drop because she's leaving YA in the rearview mirror and on her way to fuck up the A game. She's the latest Korean in Hollywood hunting down her demons and she's going to have you smacked like you hoes hit the bomb when she drops in June. You can find her new book pool house in the fiction section right next to the Bible. here to chat celebrity book clubs, |
| 0:20.1 | finally writing sex scenes, |
| 0:21.5 | and what substack she is not reading, |
| 0:23.5 | New York Times bestselling author, Mary H.K. Choi, Mary, how are you? Hi, I'm thrilled to be here. It's been a minute. It's been six years. Yeah, it has been six years. And funnily enough, like... You finally have motion again, so you're back on the pod. |
| 0:38.6 | I know. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm just like unfurling from total irrelevancy. |
| 0:41.5 | No, no, no. No, I mean, like, books, man. |
| 0:44.3 | I've been... |
| 0:45.1 | Books. |
| 0:45.5 | What's up? |
| 0:46.1 | What's up with us? |
| 0:47.2 | But kind of books, man. |
| 0:48.5 | I mean, like, even, you know, we were talking a little bit in preparation for this, |
| 0:51.7 | just kidding. Everything is completely off the cuff. |
| 1:01.2 | But like we were talking about books like and I kind of feel like the emissary or the envoy from bookland to be like, remember books. You fucking with books? I fuck with books heavy. I stay |
| 1:07.4 | fucking with books. But like I do know that in a pivot to video world, books, tough sell. |
| 1:13.3 | Yeah, especially for Gen Z. |
| 1:15.2 | Especially for Gen Z. Why don't you have like, why don't you have Crash Bandicoot playing on like one page that, you know, |
| 1:19.3 | people's subway server? I haven't not thought about it. Like it is, it is hard to basically |
| 1:25.0 | like popcorn chicken it into like a like a dandruff nugget of like information from a book. It's hard. |
| 1:31.1 | She's got away with words, folks. You can, can we read the book in like 30 second increments on TikTok? You could do that with the audio book. I think if you really, really want it one can. Actually, totally. Why not? |
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