Ep. 103 An Outsider in Hollywood with Gigi Levangie

Our guest today is author and screenwriter Gigi Levangie. Gigi has written seven books, including The Starter Wife and her latest Been There, Married That, which is a comedic take on Hollywood divorce. She also wrote the 1998 film Stepmom. We talk about attending The Academy Awards, turning real life into fiction, and why Gigi is always reading a business book.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon

• Been There, Married That by Gigi Levangie

• The Starter Wife by Gigi Levangie Grazer

• Maneater by Gigi Levangie Grazer

• Molière

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

• Savage Appetites by Rachel Monroe

• The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil

• Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

• I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

• Maria Semple

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

• Less by Andrew Sean Greer

• There There by Tommy Orange

• The One Thing by Gary Keller

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig

• Book Soup (Los Angeles, CA)

• Rescue Me by Gigi Levangie Grazer

• Do You Mind if I Cancel by Gary Janetti

• Helen Fielding

• Carrie Fisher

• Norah Ephron

• The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John C. Bogle

• Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

• Ulysses by James Joyce

• Bruce Wagner

• I'm Losing You by Bruce Wagner

• Jerry Stahl

• Donate to FEEDING AMERICA

• Stepmom (Chris Columbus, 1998)

• E!

• Andy Cohen

• Hugh Grant

• Donald Trump

• "Harvey Weinstein timeline: How the scandal unfolded" (BBC News)

• Julia Roberts

• Ed Harris

• Susan Sarandon

• Joseph Papa Public Relations

• "Ep. 61 The Publicizing of Books with Joseph Papa" (The Stacks)

• Estelle Harman

• Jac Vanek

• The Lady Gang

• Sharon Tate

• "Ep. 26 Less by Sean Andrew Greer -- The Stacks Book Club (Zeke Smith)" (The Stacks)

• Keller Williams

• Kindle

• Uma Thurman

• Prince

• Rick James

• Elton John

• Lady Gaga

• Schitt's Creek (CBC Television)

• Netflix

• Word with Friends

• Scrabble

• Vanguard

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