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A conversation with the author of Such A Pretty Picture

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Episode 62

Stacey Hettes

A conversation with the author of Dispatches From The Couch: A Neuroscientist and her Therapist Conspire to Reboot Her Brain .

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Episode 61

Wayne Scott

A conversation with the author of The Maps They Gave Us.

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Episode 60

Michael Dean

A conversation with my editor, Michael Dean.

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Episode 59

Joanna Rakoff

A conversation with the author of My Salinger Year.

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Episode 58

Virginia DeLuca

A conversation with the author of If You Must Go, I Wish You Triplets

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Episode 57

Kate Gies

A conversation with the author of It Must Be Beautiful To Be Finished.

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Episode 56

Amy Wilson

A conversation with the author of Happy To Help: Adventures of a People Pleaser.

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Episode 55

Happy To Help by Amy Wilson

Here’s what I learned from Happy To Help: Adventures of a People Pleaser by Amy Wilson

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Episode 54

Here After by Amy Lin

Memoir deep dive #21

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Episode 53

Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction

Here's what I learned from Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd

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Episode 52

Sandra Schnakenburg

Here’s what I learned from my conversation with Sandy Schnakenburg, author of The Housekeeper's Secret

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Episode 51

Long Live The Tribe Of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden

Here’s what I learned from Long Live The Tribe Of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden

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Episode 50

Still Life At Eighty by Abigail Thomas

Here’s what I learned from Still Life At Eighty by Abigail Thomas

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Episode 49

My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff

Here’s what I learned from My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff

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Episode 48

Sam Returns

Sam is back to discuss more marital arguments, though he insists they rarely argue while Charlie insists they argue plenty.

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Episode 47

Modern Love

I submitted a personal essay to the New York Times weekly column, Modern Love.

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Episode 46

Three Sobriety Memoirs

Here’s what I learned from three sobriety memoirs

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Episode 45

Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp

Heres’s what I learned from Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp

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Episode 44

Writing Under A Pseudonym

Do you want to write under a pseudonym or not?

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Episode 43

Life On Delay by John Hendrickson

Here’s what I learned from Life On Delay by John Hendrickson

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Episode 42

How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart by David Foster Wallace

Here’s what I learned from How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart by David Foster Wallace

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Episode 41

My Fair Junkie by Amy Dresner

Here’s what I learned from My Fair Junkie by Amy Dresner

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Episode 40

Lost & Found by Kathryn Schulz

Here's what I learned from Lost & Found by Kathryn Schulz

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Episode 39

In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Here’s what I learned from In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

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Episode 38

A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk

Here's what I learned from A Life's Work by Rachel Cusk

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Episode 36

The Liars' Club by Mary Karr

Here’s what I learned from The Liars’ Club by Mary Karr

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Episode 35

Cheryl Strayed: On Memoir

Here’s what I learned from Cheryl Strayed

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Episode 34

What Remains by Carole Radziwill

Here's what I learned from What Remains by Carole Radziwill

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Episode 33

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Memoir deep dive #8

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Episode 32

Born Standing Up by Steve Martin

Memoir deep dive #7

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Episode 31

Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle

Memoir deep dive #6

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Episode 30

The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer

Memoir deep dive #5

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Episode 28

Viola Davis, Norm Macdonald, and David Sedaris

Here's what I learned from Finding Me by Viola Davis

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Episode 26

Crying In H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Here's what I learned from Crying In H Mart

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Episode 24

Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

In these memoir deep dives I highlight my takeaways from the book and how I can apply what I learn to writing my own memoir.

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Episode 22

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Charlie is going to write a memoir.

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Episode 21

Polina Marinova Pompliano

Charlie forgets to press record on the first hour of her conversation with Polina.

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Episode 19

A Confession

Charlie hates hates hates hates hates feeling stupid.

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Episode 9

COVID, addicted to sweets and alcohol, and struggles feeding a toddler.

The Bleeckers got COVID.

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Episode 8

The ups and downs of sleep training your baby, working towards happiness, and a lullabye.

Charlie and Sam discuss the mindfuck that is sleep training your baby.

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Episode 5

Letting the nanny go, Sam loses his shit, a recent investment, and how Charlie and Sam met.

Charlie struggles with her need to be liked and Sam admits a recent parenting fail with the newborn.

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Episode 3

The honeymoon phase is over, finding the perfect nanny, and a rich life.

The podcasting honeymoon phase is over for Charlie and Sam!

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Episode 2

Cringe moments, an unresolved parenting conflict, brushing a toddler's teeth, money talk, and The Bachelor.

Charlie sticks her foot in her mouth once again and lives to tell the tale.

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Episode 1

Charlie and Sam kick things off.

Charlie is joined by her husband Sam to rehash their latest argument (it's not Charlie's best look).

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