
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.
Books
- 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
Everything Else
- 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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