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Authors Melanie Benjamin and Edward Kelsey Moore talk books, movies, aging, ambition, and everything in between. Each episode features one book or one movie—something to read, something to watch, and plenty to say.
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Homebodies: Tembe Denton-Hurst's Debut About Walking Away From Media (opens the original)
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In 2023, Tembe Denton-Hurst published a debut about a young Black media writer who quits her job with a letter — and then has to live with what happens next. Melanie Benjamin and Edward Kelsey Moore read Homebodies , the debut novel by Tembe Denton-Hurst (HarperVia, 2023). Mickey Hayward works a media job that's mostly listicles instead of the journalism she wanted. When she's laid off, she writes a detailed letter calling out racism and sexism in the industry — it goes nowhere, at first. She re
It's a Great Feeling: The Movie Warner Bros. Built to Make Doris Day a Star (opens the original)
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In 1949 Warner Bros. built a movie out of its own stars for one reason: to make Doris Day famous. It worked. Melanie Benjamin and Edward Kelsey Moore watch It's a Great Feeling, directed by David Butler and starring Doris Day, Dennis Morgan, and Jack Carson. It was Day's third Warner Bros. picture, made when the studio had a big star on its hands and wanted the whole town to notice. The plot is thin on purpose: Day plays a studio cafeteria worker who wants to be in pictures, Morgan and Carson pl
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