Smart Podcast, Trashy Books Podcast

515. Celebrity Romance and Juicy Narratives with Elissa Sussman

Funny You Should Ask
A | BN | K | AB
ELissa Sussman joins me to talk about her book, Funny You Should Ask, and about:

  • Writing a horny heroine’s POV
  • Dual timelines
  • Celebrity profiles
  • Life as a celebrity and managing a fandom
  • Things that do, and do not twitch

Elissa is an extremely fluent fan of the romance genre, and we talk a lot about romance conventions we love and loathe, and what it means to subvert and undermine some very familiar dynamics, characters, and tropes.

If you love celebrity profiles, the narratives that construct fame, and behind the scenes details, you’ll like this book, and you’ll probably really like this conversation. Please join us!

Thank you to Melissa Folds and Courtney Mocklow at Penguin RandomHouse for setting up this interview!

So – what’s your favorite celebrity profile? Do you follow celebrity gossip narratives? What sites are your faves? Email me – I would love to know. I personally love the FauxMoi subreddit (not the instagram feed itself). Tell me yours?

Music: purple-planet.com

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Here are the books we discuss in this podcast:

You can find Elissa Sussman on her website, ElissaSussman.com.

Ready for all the profiles we talked about in this episode? GET READY!

And we also mentioned Shana’s review of A Lady for a Duke. 

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  1. catscatscats says:

    Really loved this conversation, despite not having heard of half the celebrities. Thanks for sharing it with us.

  2. Kareni says:

    Thanks for a very entertaining interview and a fun joke!

  3. Sue says:

    Is there anywhere to simply download the episode by itself? My podcatcher is being weird and not showing this. 🙁 It seems to have a right address for the feed, so I don’t know what’s going on.

  4. Bransler says:

    I’m also unable to play this episode. My podcatcher (Pocketcasts) loaded the file, but it won’t play. I was able to come to this page on my phone and just play it directly from here. I figure I’ll wait until next week and see if it happens again or was just a one-time bug.

  5. SB Sarah says:

    @Bransler @Sue – thank you for letting me know! I moved the podcast over to a dedicated podcast host and will try to figure out what went wrong. I’m sorry about the trouble!

  6. Sue says:

    @SB Sarah – It just showed up for me, so whatever you did worked? Anyway, yay! I can listen not tethered to my computer!

  7. chacha1 says:

    I have added ‘Funny You Should Ask’ to my wishlist purely on the basis of this chat. 🙂

    Am also going to read that GQ Tom Hiddleston profile right now.

  8. Bransler says:

    @SB Sara – It seems to be solved! Thanks.

  9. SB Sarah says:

    YES. Thank you for letting me know! Moving the podcast from my own server to a dedicated podcast host is supposed to be easy.

    LOLOLOLLLL. Thank you for letting me know about the problems, and most of all thank you for listening!

  10. Alanna F says:

    Google Podcasts must really not want to play nice with your tech 🙁 Whatever fixed it for the other podcast apps, it didn’t work for me.

    I was finally able to listen to the ones from a few weeks ago without it yelling at me about the feed being unsecured though! Thank you for all the tech wrangling, and also for doing this amazing podcast!

  11. SB Sarah says:

    @Alanna: I’m so sorry about that. Google is refusing to see the new feed, and I keep nudging it every day. ARGH I’m so sorry about the delay!

  12. Stefanie Magura says:

    In Singing in the Rain, which everyone needs to watch at least once in their lives, the female lead pretends she is so snobby and only follows actors in the theater. It’s revealed later, that she has pretty much a whole shrine of magazine photos and cut-outs dedicated to the male lead, who is a famous movie actor transitioning from silent to talking movies.

  13. mly says:

    I LOVE that you bring up the Miles Teller piece that Anna Peele wrote for Esquire. I remember getting sucked into her writing and this profile where she can really see through his bullshit but also hasn’t totally dismissed him. When I was reading this book I kept thinking about that specific profile and how I wish Anna Peele would get a book deal the way Chani did! I actually found this podcast because I was trying to see who else was able to make that comparison

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