Summer is here! The Book Project shares our hot picks for summer beach reads, covering topics from the way we talk to each other to reconnecting with our earliest celebrity role models. We also touch on a recent book promotion fail, and revisit our retro love of magazines.

Books featured in this episode:

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays by Samantha Irby

You’re the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women’s Friendships by Deborah Tannen

All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to be Famous Strangers by Alana Massey

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

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