Bad On Paper

Hosted ByGrace Atwood & Becca Freeman

Your new internet besties give you a weekly dose of books, banter, and folks you should be following. Join 30-something reading enthusiasts and real-life best friends Grace Atwood and Becca Freeman every month for a book club featuring a read they promise you won’t be able to put down. In between, they’re joined by guests for conversations on careers, dating, fashion, and more.


All Episodes

Author Carley Fortune’s Three Things: Spring Fashion, Social Media, and Prince Edward Island

This week we’re talking Things with Carley Fortune, bestselling author of and , and , out May 7, 2024.   Carley’s Three Things Are: Spring Dressing Our relationship with social media (sparked by “Is there a sane way to use the internet”…

Expiration Dates Book Club

It’s time to discuss our April 2024 Book Club Pick, ! We share our thoughts on the book’s magical realism, debate if we’d consider it a romance novel, dive into the theme of fate vs. free will, share if we saw the twist coming, and so much…

A Spring Life Catchup

From new hobbies to writing stuff to upcoming travel and more, we’re taking this week to catch up on LIFE!    Substacks we’re into right now include , , , .     (Also if anybody can relate to Olivia’s low, here’s a…

Three Things April 2024

We’re back with another installment of three things! Get excited to talk toilet paper, unhinged online ads, anti-bucket lists, recommendation culture, and MORE!   Olivia’s Things The (and the mundane parts of life we’d want to give a…

Author and Podcaster Jo Piazza’s Three Things: Costco Underwear, Cold Plunging with the Eagles, and Cannoli

This week we’re chatting Three Things with ! We also talk about her new book , telling NFL players what to do, Easter Baskets & Cadbury Eggs, The Tooth Fairy, making cannoli, and more!    , , , and . Just a heads up:…

Anita de Monte Laughs Last Book Club & Notes App Follow Up

This week we’re discussing our March Book Club Pick: ! We talk about the artists that inspired this story, the themes that impacted us the most, and more! We also share listener-submitted follow ups on our Notes App conversation.   Obsessions…

March 2024 Three Things

It’s time for Three Things and we have a lot to cover, so let’s dive in!    Olivia’s things Kate Middleton A game FMKs  Our Favorite Substacks    Becca’s things What you do when you’re struggling with procrastination…

What’s in Our Notes App

The notes App can be used for more than celebrity apologies, so we decided to dedicate an episode to diving into what’s in our Notes App! Specifically Notes App organization, the most useful notes we keep, the weirdest notes we find on our phones, and…

Three Things with Author Tia Williams: Love is Blind, American Fiction, and Her New Novel

We’re so excited for another guest Three Things with author ! We chat about Love is Blind, American Fiction (with an Oscar movie sidebar), and her new novel !   Tia Williams is the author of the novels , , Sixteen Candles, (now a Netflix movie…

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