Who's That Girl with Mhairi McFarlane

Sentimental Garbage

Justice for Dumb Women

Sex And The City, Arts, Musicals, Society & Culture, Culture, Queer, Movies, Camp, Literature, Tv

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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CW: Suicide. This week we're joined by author, historian and bookseller Emma Southon in the rather fitting setting of my hotel room to talk about Mhairi McFarlane's WHO'S THAT GIRL?, an extremely funny romcom about Edie, a 30-something copywriter who falls in love with Elliott, the movie star she's been sent to ghostwrite a memoir for. We talk about movie stars, Game of Thrones, terrible celebrity profiles, the role of chick-lit when trying to unpick "having it all", dating famous people and why there aren't any chick-lit books about beards. Emma Southon is the author of AGRIPPINA: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore and co-hosts the podcast HISTORY IS SEXY. Music by Harry Harris, artwork by Gavin Day, produced by Caroline O'Donoghue and mixed by Hannah Varrall. If you'd like to support the podcast find us on sentimentalgarbage.substack.com

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0:00.0	Hi and I'm a writer and author and the star of a very thinly veiled
0:05.0	I'm a writer and author and the star of a very thinly veiled version of Game of Thrones.
0:14.2	Joining me is writer, academic and bookseller Emma Southern.
0:17.8	Today we're going to talk about Barry McFarland, who's that girl?
0:21.0	Hi Emma.
0:21.8	Hi, Ma. Hi.
0:23.0	So, listeners might feel that this is a slightly different experience
0:26.8	to what they're used to.
0:27.8	It's because we're in my hotel room.
0:29.4	We are.
0:30.4	It feels very fancy.
0:31.4	It feels very appropriate for this book to be honest which I
0:33.2	love it taste pie in hotel rooms. Oh my God I hadn't even made that connection.
0:37.0	Yeah that's great. It is. So you had me last night at
0:40.7	um at Wortstone's Belfast which was a lovely event except for the one man who attended.
0:44.8	It was. It was always one man that ruins it.
0:47.2	I know, it was such an intimate lovely event full of like-minded women and one man who wouldn't
0:52.2	stop interrupting?
0:53.1	He just kept interrupting.
0:54.2	We're having a lovely chat, a nice Q&A,
0:56.2	and then he had a question as well, which was nice.
0:58.8	So many questions.
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