This week, Elizabeth Rose Quinn and I discuss revelations we had while reading Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Each Other by Sophie Gilbert.

Listen to hear about:

• How Sophie Gilbert's Girl on Girl traces a throughline from the 1990s to today, revealing how pop culture, celebrity media, and entertainment industries shaped modern misogyny and women's relationships with each other.
• A discussion of the "post-privacy era," from Pamela Anderson's stolen sex tape to social media, influencer culture, and the normalization of treating women's lives and bodies as public property.
• Why movements that begin as authentic expressions of female empowerment—like Riot Grrrl and "girl power"—often get repackaged, commercialized, and stripped of their original political meaning.
• An exploration of reality TV, celebrity culture, diet culture, and the male gaze—and how they continue to influence the way women are expected to look, behave, and present themselves.
• Misogyny as a cultural system: why women are often disbelieved, how abuse tactics show up in institutions and media, and what happens when we stop viewing these incidents as isolated events and start seeing the larger pattern.

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This week, I talk with Rob Hart about his third Assassins Anonymous book Three Hitmen and a Baby!

Listen to hear about:

• Why the series resonates beyond action: Hart uses professional killers in recovery to examine guilt, redemption, personal growth, and whether people can truly change.
  
• Rob's writing philosophy, and why he believes even pantsers need to know where their story is headed emotionally.
  
• Why humor is essential in thrillers, arguing that comedy acts as a pressure-release valve that helps readers connect more deeply with characters and makes even high-stakes action scenes more memorable.

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This week, Gare catches Steph and I up on his trip to the Montreal Mystery Festival, and we all share what we gravitate toward in books, movies and TV shows when we need a comfort story!

Books We Talked About

• Verity
• Hot Girl Murder Club
• We Used to Live Here
• Sublimation
• The Midnight Knock
• Jar of Hearts
• The Truth About Melody Browne
• The Spin

TV Shows We Talked About

• Orphan Black
• Severance
• The Vampire Diaries
• New Girl
• The Office
• Parks and Recreation
• Schitt's Creek

Movies We Talked About

• Basic Instinct
• Oddity
• Cape Fear
• Black Christmas
• Verity
• Scream
• I Know What You Did Last Summer
• 10 Things I Hate About You

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Halley Sutton @halleysutton25

Brian Watson @readingwithbrian

MacKenzie Green @missusa2mba