Our guest today is Juliet Litman. Juliet is the host of the podcasts Bachelor Party and Jam Session on The Ringer network. She is also the head of production at the Ringer. We talk today about the similarities between television and books, why Juliet loves “chatty” novels, and what changes should be made to The Bachelor franchise.

The Stacks Book Club selection for August is Emergency Contact by Mary H. K. Choi. We will discuss the book with Juliet Litman on Wednesday August 25th.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find everything we talked about on Amazon.

Books

• The Cider House Rules by John Irving
• The World According to Garp by John Iriving
• Charles Dickens
• The Sisters Chase by Sarah Healy
• The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti
• Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
• The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
• Emergency Contact by Mary H. K. Choi
• Anna K by Jenny Lee
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
• Bridgerton: The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
• Beach Read by Emily Henry
• Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
• The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes
• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
• Small World by David Lodge
• Nice Work by David Lodge
• Changing Places by David Lodge
• Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
• Thinks by Davis Lodge
• A Really Good Day by Ayelet Waldman
• Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
• A Widow for One Year by John Irving
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth
• Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
• Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
• Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
• Real Life by Brandon Taylor
• Christodora by Tim Murphy
• City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Trio by William Boyd
• Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
• Women About Town by Laura Jacobs
• My Life So Far by Jane Fonda
• Dave Eggers
• Want Not by Jonathan Miles
• Geoff Dyer
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
• The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
• Severance by Ling Ma
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Long Division by Kiese Laymon
• Yolk by Mary H. K. Choi
• Sula by James Baldwin
• Toni Morrison
• If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
• Playing for Keeps by David Halberstam
• Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
• A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
• Jasmine Guillory
• Doris Kearns Goodwin

Everything Else

• Bachelor Party (The Ringer)
• Jam Session (The Ringer)
• The Ringer
• Backstreet Boys
• ER (NBC)
• Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)
• The Bachelor (ABC)
• The Bachelorette (ABC)
• Grantland
• David Jacoby
• Bill Simmons
• The Right Reasons Podcast
• Peter Weber
• Katie Thurston
• Becca Kufrin
• “A Complete Breakdown of the Garrett Yrigoyen Controversy on The Bachelorette“ (Christopher Rosa, Glamour)
• The Bachelor Season 25: Matt James (ABC)
• Chris Harrison
• Rachel Lindsay
• Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay (The Ringer)
• Van Lathan
• Wesley Morris
• “A ‘Bachelor’ Televised Reconciliation” (Bachelor Party, The Ringer)
• “The Reconciliation Must Be Televised” (Wesley Morris, The New York Times)
• After the Final Rose with Emanual Acho
• Emmanuel Acho
• Rachael Kirkconnell
• Hannah Brown
• Petty Cash (Los Angeles, CA)
• Nick Viall
• Jenna Wortham
• Still Processing (The New York Times)
• “Ep. Integrity in Collaboration with Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham” (The Stacks)
• Tony Kornhesier Show (This Show Stinks Productions)
• The Bachelorette Season 10: Kaitlyn Bristowe (ABC)
• The Bachelor Season 13: Jason Mesnick (ABC)
• The Bachelorette Season 6: Ali Fedotowski (ABC)
• The Bachelor Season 20: Chris Soules (ABC)
• The Bachelor Season 22: Arie Luyendyk (ABC)
• The Bachelor Season 15: Brad Womack (ABC)
• The Bachelorette Season 7: Ashley Hebert (ABC)
• “Ashley Hebert and J.P. Rosenbaum Split After 8 Years of Marriage: ‘Our Differences Have Taken a Toll'” (Ashley Boucher, People)
• Road Rules (MTV)
• The Real World (MTV)
• Survivor (CBS)
• Top Chef (Bravo)
• Bridgerton (Netflix)
• James Garfield
• Abraham Lincoln
• William McKinley
• John Kennedy
• The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004)
• This American Life (This American Life)
• Jam Session (The Ringer)
• Amanda Dobbins
• McSweeney’s
• “‘Station Eleven’: Everything To Know About The New HBO Max Miniseries” (Lauren, Puckett-Pope, Elle)
• Michael Jordan
• Marquis de Lafayette
• Hamilton (2015)
• Thomas Jefferson
• Cloud Atlas (Lana Wachowski, 2021)
• Succession (HBO)
• Game of Thrones (HBO)
• How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days (Donald Petrie, 2003)
• Legally Blonde (Robert Luketic, 2001)
• Legally Blonde (2007)

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