The Unspeakable Podcast

Those College Students Might Surprise You: Sarah Hepola’s Report From The Classroom

May 24, 2023

Fan favorite Sarah Hepola is back! Sarah has visited The Unspeakable to talk about everything from alcoholism to #MeToo to the changes in the media landscape and literary world. Today she returns to discuss a recent solo episode she recorded for Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em, the podcast she co-hosts with journalist...

Red Pilling The Pill: Holly Grigg-Spall On The Big Business Of Birth Control

May 15, 2023

Ever since it was introduced in the early 1960s, the birth control pill has been inextricable from the concept of women’s liberation, body autonomy, and just about everyone’s sense of personal freedom and their own life choices. Holly Grigg-Spall, author of Sweetening The Pill: Or How We Got Hooked On Hormonal Birth...

It Should Have Been Over By Now, But It Isn’t. Lionel Shriver On The Unending Culture Wars

May 8, 2023

This week on the podcast, returning guest Lionel Shriver talks about her latest book, Abominations: Selected Essays From A Career Of Courting Self-Destruction. A collection of her writings from outlets like The Spectator, The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal, the book also contains some previously unpublished...

What Is Anorexia Really About? Hadley Freeman on Good Girls and the competition to be the “Illest.”

May 1, 2023

We sometimes think of anorexia as an “old school” disease, now eclipsed by disorders such as cutting and similar forms of self-harm. But as journalist Hadley Freeman reports in her new book, the illness has been around for centuries and is still very much with us. In Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia, Hadley...