Millennial Ennui (with Emily Henry!)

Be There in Five

Kate Kennedy

Personal Journals, Entertainment News, News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

This week, Kate interviews Emily Henry (author of Beach Read, People We Meet on Vacation, Book Lovers, Happy Place, and more!) about her wildly successful rom-com style novels and the many millennial-adjacent themes that are woven into her beloved characters. They discuss pressing topics, like if her banter is inspired by Gilmore Girls, the location of January and Gus’ houses in Beach Read, having her books optioned for movies, what it’s like trying to maintain creative control, etc. in addition to recurring BTIF themes such as vacation boyfriends, T Swift lyrics, the mystique of effortless women, how we judge female protagonists versus male love interests, and much more. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome back to the BDM 5 Podcast. I'm Kate Kennedy, your host.
0:13.5	Lately, I've been trying to find guess that represents something I know a lot of you
0:21.7	really like a piece of pop culture. I haven't explored yet. And I know I was trying to cut
0:27.9	Beth's book club down to once a month, but Caroline Calaway didn't see me. And I was
0:32.1	actually going to save today's interview for my mat leave, but I was too excited about
0:35.1	it and had to play it now because I'm kind of in this moment of, I don't know, like
0:40.6	especially I'm not allowed to travel right now. And I think being like now so like tethered
0:46.9	with child, it's just making me very nostalgic for the summers of yesterday. I rewatched the
0:53.2	summer. I turned pretty. I've been reading a lot of like summer based romantic books.
0:59.4	And I know so many of you are such big Emily Henry fans or as many of you called her when
1:04.9	I put this in the question box, MN, love the BFF status. And I've read B-Tread a while
1:10.4	back that I got through book of the month when they were a sponsor. And I hadn't picked
1:15.5	up her other titles until the past month or so. And I have just been tearing through
1:21.2	these. My God, I love romance. I love romantic comedy. You know, I don't believe in guilty
1:26.3	pleasures. They are just simply pleasures. And I don't believe that we should trivialize
1:30.2	something just because of genre or category. These books are important in their own way.
1:35.5	And for me, this has been the most important escapism during this time of my life where I
1:40.9	just for a moment feel young again, I think of traveling again. I remember the lore of genuinely
1:47.0	thinking every goddamn year, it would be the year that I would find a vacation boyfriend
1:51.1	when I never ever talked to a stranger ever, not once. I bought the toe rings. I bought
1:56.7	the Katie's parking only signs and I went to mid Atlantic generic boardwalk B.G. USA and
2:01.7	hoped for the best as we've talked about so many times. And I think Emily Henry books
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