Lovett or Leave It

this book was the Necronomicon.

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I have, uh, I, I'm like more than three fourths through about love by bell hooks. And, uh, in that time I've beat Diablo twice.

Shattered is the book that just came out this week that is a kind of play-by-play of what went wrong in the Hillary campaign so let's talk about shattered really quickly.

Shattered is written by uh two reporters they talk to everybody I'm sure the stories are right the take is probably not right right but the thing about the thing about these books is they paint every like look a campaign wins their geniuses campaign loses and they're all idiots

the Hillary Clinton campaign made a lot of mistakes Hillary Clinton has made a lot of mistakes on her way to not being president obviously she won no look this is the truth she lost an election she should have won the election

I'm not I'm not gonna read the book I saw the excerpts whatever but uh but I do think it's important that we don't act like every word in that book is wrong um because Donald Trump is president everything went wrong a cascade of failures across the board we may not recover but if we do it'll be because we learned some things

They all had, and AOC in particular, had a higher name identification with Republicans for the first like year and a half of their time in office than they did with Democrats because of the 24-7 right wing ecosystem just blasting them, just calling them every single name in the book.

So just for one example, there's one guy that's quoted talking about the rollout of the Green New Deal saying that it was a, this one particular part was a cluster.

So what they do is they take that, they put it in my voice rather than somebody else and then say that I said that the entire Green New Deal is a cluster and a disaster.

So you have to imagine she comes in cold to politics.

She was reading about politics, she's smart. She went to Boston University.

In his book, Barack Obama referred to a girl he had a crush on in college as an ethereal bisexual.

Your book is called Cuckoo.

And the book is Cuckoo Cuckoo and there are queer people trying to escape some kind of a cult.

And as students of queer history or at least someone who had The Stonewall Reader covered in dust on my nightstand for a while.

The Human Stain 2, an HBO adaptation for TV that is basically a Muppet Babies version of the 2003 Robert Benton drama starring Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman based on the Philip Roth novel. You return as Nelson Primus and it's not entirely clear why.

No, it's problematic in that Anthony Hopkins is playing a biracial person and I think it's best left in the past.

Oh, honey, I've locked you up in your dressing room and I'm taking the stage. I don't want you to be impressed. I want you to understand this is not sophistry and this is not hypocrisy. This is reality. This is reality. I have sex with men, but unlike nearly every other man whom this is true, I bring the guys I'm screwing to the White House and President Reagan smiles at us and shakes his hand because I am defined entirely by who I am. Roy Cohn is not a homosexual. Roy Cohn is a heterosexual man, Henry, who fucks around with guys. So no, Henry, no. AIDS is what homosexuals have. I have liver cancer.

And these books are called... Anatomy, A Love Story and Immortality, A Love Story as someone who has written romance by the way they're out on paperback now. Out on paperback, get them wherever paperbacks are sold.

Three weeks in a row on the Indie Best Seller list?

Yeah, Indie Best Sellers.

Back on the list after two years.

And these books are called... Anatomy, A Love Story and Immortality, A Love Story as someone who has written romance by the way they're out on paperback now. Out on paperback, get them wherever paperbacks are sold.

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No one, no one advises a couple to do this. Right. You know, it would be really good for your relationship. No couples therapist has said ever direct a movie together, guys go.

But no, this was a it's a Chuck Klosterman novel that Lily did the audio book for a number of years ago, fell in love with the story, fell in love with the character.

And yeah, first I just wanted to play the part. And I at that point, I just asked my agent, then agent, like how to get the rights for something that weren't available. But I reached out to Chuck and I said why I loved it.

And then later, a couple years later, there was an email in my inbox saying, Hey, it's Chuck, I've been following your career. And I think you're the person to play the part. And now the rights are available and I'll sell it to you for a dollar if you want it.

So if you've moved on, I get it. Have a nice life. And so it felt like this opportunity like, okay, walk through that, you know, try and walk through this door. And then many years later, we did.

I have a new book called Not Funny

I feel like he said that on purpose to be in the news cycle and be controversial. I think it's all about publicity for his unfrosted movie.

I have a copy of your 2003 book, Lies and the Lying Liars Here.

I think it was important to a lot of people when it came out.

And it was this clarion call about just how malicious and deceptive the right wing had become.

And what I was thinking when I realized it's been over 20 years since the book came out is, did you ever imagine it would seem so fucking quaint?

I think that's actually in this book.

This is a personal attack on anyone who's ever said I can't write under these conditions in regards to somebody using a leaf blower outside the vatican.

Can we give him some kind of fake custom briefing about Genovia's nuclear program? You know that's the fake country from the Princess Diaries.

I know that's the fake country from the Princess Diaries, but he doesn't know that's the fake country from the Princess Diaries.

Do you remember the book, Rick Steves, Europe Through the Back Door?