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What's A Weekend

Nerdette - March 20, 2020 22:08 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Today we check in with Nerdette book club regular Heather Havrilesky. She also writes the Ask Polly advice column for New York magazine, so she gives us another perspective on how everyone's doing out there. And of course, we hear from a bunch of you, too, which is quickly becoming the best part...

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Nerdette Book Club: ‘Such A Fun Age’

Nerdette - January 31, 2020 10:00 - ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Welcome to the Nerdette Book Club! Where we read a book a month and chat about it with a rotating group of panelists. It’s just like a normal book club except no one shames you when you don't do the reading. This episode is all about Kiley Reid’s excellent debut novel, Such a Fun Age. It’s an i...

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Podcast Book Club: ‘Such A Fun Age’

Nerdette - January 31, 2020 10:00 - ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Welcome to the Nerdette Book Club! Where we read a book a month and chat about it with a rotating group of panelists. It’s just like a normal book club except no one shames you when you don't do the reading. This episode is all about Kiley Reid’s excellent debut novel, Such a Fun Age. It’s an i...

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Nerdette Book Club 2020

Nerdette - January 17, 2020 10:01 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Nerdette has always been a podcast for book lovers, but for the first few months of 2020, we’re doubling down. Join host Greta Johnsen and a rotating cast of panelists as they discuss the year’s buzziest books. Whether you can’t wait to dive in or just want to sound like you know what you’re ta...

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You Are Here (Facing Reality ft. Heather Havrilesky)

Hannahlyze This by Hannah Hart - October 17, 2019 05:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 2K ratings
This week, Gelb is joined by Heather Havrilesky - author, advice columnist, and wasteland warrior of the scrappy LA hills - to discuss the poisonous messages that our culture at large tries to tattoo onto the insides of our eyelids. You know the ones. You NEED: more money, a bigger house, a bett...

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Nerdette Book Club: ‘The Testaments’ Part 3

Nerdette - October 04, 2019 09:00 - ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
We’ve finished The Testaments! Press play and join Nerdette host Greta Johnsen, New York Magazine’s Heather Havrilesky and Vocalo’s Jill Hopkins for this final installment of the #NerdetteBookClub. You’ll hear how each of us rated the book on a scale of 1-10 warm milks (10 being the best, obvi...

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Nerdette Book Club: ‘The Testaments’ Part 2

Nerdette - September 27, 2019 09:00 - ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
We’re two thirds of the way through Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments, and we’ve got a lot to talk about. This week is all about chapters 24 through 46, and our panel of intrepid feminists questions whether these storylines are just a little toooo convenient, whether it’s really possible to rip ...

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Book Club: ‘The Testaments’ Part I

Nerdette - September 20, 2019 09:01 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Our reading of Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments has commenced! This week, we’re talking about book chapters 1 through 23. So … spoilers abound. Join Nerdette host Greta Johnsen, New York Magazine’s Heather Havrilesky and Vocalo’s Jill Hopkins as they contemplate the motives of Aunt Lydia, wond...

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#35 Heather Havrilesky (Columnist "Ask Polly") - On Writing, Giving Advice & Not Being A “Guru”

Ctrl Alt Delete - September 04, 2016 17:39 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratings
She is the sweary big sister of the Internet who gives brilliant and thought-provoking weekly advice via her column “Ask Polly” for New York Magazines “The Cut”. She answers all sorts of questions from “How do I dump my crappy best friend?” to “I’m broke and I hate my job” to “My sister has cance...

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Episode 182: Heather Havrilesky

Longform - March 02, 2016 13:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
Heather Havrilesky writes the Ask Polly advice column for New York and is the author of the upcoming How to Be a Person in the World. “I don’t give a shit if I succeed or fail or what I do next, I just want to do things that are strange and not sound bitey. I don’t want to be polished. I want to...