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

The Christmas Orphans Club Book Club

  This week, we’re diving into Becca’s Book, The Christmas Orphans Club! This is the ONLY time we’ll be spoiling this book for a while, so if you haven’t read the book yet and don’t want to get spoiled, save this episode for when you…

2023 Gift Guide with My Sister Made Me Buy It

Happy gift guide season! This week we’re talking all things gifts with Sarah of , an account full of fashion, undergarment, blanket, travel, and pen recommendations. We share gift ideas for BFFs, Co-Workers, Significant Others, Tweens, People who…

What’s on our nightstand

Lotion! Books! Earplugs! Dried-up contact lenses! This week, we’re talking about our nightstand essentials from the things that improve our nighttime routine to the things that are just weird.    Olivia’s Nightstand: , , books…

November 2023 Three Things

Time for a fun batch of Things! Three from each of us, to be exact.    Olivia’s Things What are your holiday vibes for 2023? Opinions on New Year’s Eve as a Holiday Is long hair cheugy now?   Becca’s Things Becca’s new favorite…

NaNoWriMo Q&A with literary agent Carly Watters

To celebrate the start of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) we’re chatting with , SVP and Senior Literary Agent at P.S Literary and co-host of Podcast!   We ask Carly about trends in fiction, how to know when a manuscript is ready, how…

The Quiet Tenant Book Club

This week we’re talking about our October Book Club Pick, ! We talk about Becca’s expectations of the book vs what her thoughts were reading, our thoughts on the second person narration, how the book centered the women in this story, if the ending…

Spooky Sesason Reads with Ashley Winstead

This week we’re diving into spooky season with a fellow fall fanatic, ! We talk about her newest book , our enthusiasm for fall, 12-foot skeletons, and we all share some Halloween-season book recs!   Psychological Thriller Book Recs Olivia – …

A Q4 Q&A

This week, we’re answering your questions about Q4 goals, fall checklists, Olivia’s house updates, TCOC tiny tongs enthusiasts, writing advice, Starbucks orders and SO! MUCH! MORE!    Our favorite back catalog episodes  Our Goals…

Three Things October 2023

It’s Three Things time! This week we’re talking about the Instagram ads that haunt us, Lauren Groff’s writing process, being a teenage girl, and more!    Becca’s 3 Things Instagram ads that haunt us and the grown-up teen girl…

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