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EP. 79 - WRITING ABOUT FOOD Mar 18, 2024

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We talk through a few listener emails about surviving your mid-twenties, surviving with a UTI on Survivor, and surviving a boss who keeps showing up to work with hickeys. After that, we talk about being hungry. Writing about food, eating while writing, forgetting to eat because we are writing, soylent (????), and why food is such an important detail when it comes to storytelling.

EP. 78 - *bonus episode* - A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF SLAM POETRY Mar 12, 2024

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head over to patreon.com/saymorepodcast to listen to the full episode! we got to sit down in real life with one of our closest friends & favorite writers, hieu minh nguyen. together, we got nostalgic about our wild (we were so corny) days of competing in poetry slam and how the artform influenced our professional lives as writers today (we are just really good at self-promotion).

EP. 77 - LOVE IS BLIND & POV Mar 04, 2024

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back with another HOME RUN. this week, the gal pals chat about their favorite high-brow television show, love is blind, as well as the infinite ways Point of View can change a story. if this were a dissertation, they would make clearer how these two themes are related, but you get it. right?

EP. 75: ROMANCE - A PROBE Feb 19, 2024

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In honor of Melissa's favorite holiday, we are talking about love. We spoke with Puloma Ghosh, author of Mouth, about tropes in the romance genre, fan-fiction, and why women turn to romance in times of need. Order Puloma's short story collection wherever books are sold!

EP. 73 - AUTOFICTION & THE SELFHOOD PLOT Feb 05, 2024

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it's the new season of SAY MORE! thank you for waiting literally two years. this week, we are discussing the genre of autofiction — where it started, who's doing it, and our personal journey to adulthood aka choosing not to share every single thing about our private life in a nonfictional space. for next week's bonus episode, subscribe to our patreon at patreon.com/saymorepodcast, where you can also gain access our montly newsletter. we're so glad to be back xx

EP. 72 - ROCKSTARS, MISTRESSES, SURROGATES, THE MONARCHY Oct 07, 2022

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pop culture is truly losing it

EP. 71 - WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT ROE V. WADE w/ PAIGE GREEN Sep 21, 2022

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The gals welcome former guest Paige Green—nurse, doula, star—to talk about the dismal state of reproductive rights in America and how to generally deal.

EP. 70 - ORIGIN STORIES Mar 19, 2022

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M&O, together at last, talk about how they met the most important people in their lives.

EP. 69 - ORGASMS APLENTY Jan 28, 2022

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EP. 68 - AN ODE TO OUR TWENTIES Jan 18, 2022

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As Melissa and Olivia depart the tragic & exhilarating decade of their twenties, they reminisce on the years they spent being whores in punk houses, sexless in relationships, and a sudden burst of hyper-visibility.

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