It’s game night! Much like the 76ers and the Knicks, Claire and Molly are facing off in a battle of grit, heart, and skill. That is, we are dusting off Joops’ dad’s friend’s game, Writer Blocks, and writing short stories against a prompt and a time limit. Tune in for this and a misandrist reading of Eternity, a hit job on (one of our favorite writers) Mindy Kaling via review of her (very good) show Running Point, an indictment of old timey romantasy, and a close read of one particular scene in Paradise season 2. Oh, and if you’re thinking about jimmying Claire’s knee? You’re too late.

Nasty people make the best friends and nasty people are smarter than everyone else. That’s one of many very nice takes we drop in this week’s episode, as we cover Grant Ginder’s So Old, So Young, The Drama, and Bigfoot the Musical. We also report from our time at the book lover’s hottest destination, BookCon. One more thing: could you please have some generosity for our basketball team?

Mars is in Aries and we’re embracing conflict— with everyone we’ve ever met and within our books. That’s right, we’re writing again, but ask us anything about it and we’ll clock you! This episode also includes a Spring weather report, a reverse HIPAA violation on Molly’s new therapist, a big announcement re: Claire’s reno, and our final reviews of Something Very Bad is Going to Happen and the Artefacts of the Ouranos series (both need to figure out their magic systems).