Episode 313: The It Girl (with Asha Elias)

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The SSR Podcast

Alli Hoff Kosik

321 episodes

7 months ago

Each week, freelance writer and lifelong bookworm Alli Hoff Kosik will challenge a guest to reread a literary throwback or to experience for the first time ever a book they may have missed as a kid. After that, they'll be asked to spill all the feels and all the opinions about that book on the air for your podcast-listening pleasure. Every Tuesday, you can find us breaking down an old school read from our tween and teen days on a new episode of the show. We'll cover everything from The Baby-Sitters Club to Holes, Nancy Drew to Harry Potter. This time around, we're a little wiser (yay!), a lot older (ugh.), and of legal age to drink wine... so we'll have a lot to say. Happy Reading!

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Episode 313: The It Girl (with Asha Elias)

The SSR Podcast

48 minutes 56 seconds

8 months ago

Episode 313: The It Girl (with Asha Elias)

Beyond the ivy-covered walls of the Constance Billard School and the moneyed Upper East Side is upstate New York and the equally moneyed Waverly Academy—and Jenny Humphrey is bound for them as we meet her at the start of Gossip Girl spin-off, The It Girl! Episode 313 is a juicy deep dive into all things Boarding School Jenny: rich kids, nuanced mean girls, problematic love affairs, hedonism, and the deliciously nostalgic aesthetic of the Gossip Girl extended universe.

Asha Elias is the author of Pink Glass Houses and the forthcoming The Namaste Club. Follow her on Instagram @asha.sue.elias.

CHECK OUT ASHA'S BOOKS:

Pink Glass Houses

The Namaste Club

CHECK OUT ASHA'S BOOK RECOMMENDATION:

Don't Be a Stranger by Susan Minot

MORE READING:

"The It Girl (Novel Series)" (Gossip Girl Wiki)

"The It Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar Review" (Courtney Shek, 2024)

"Review: It Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar" (Grown Up Book Reports, 2017)

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