Comrades! We're diving into the piping hot waters of romance community tea with today's topic: Book Boyfriends! The cishet white men popping up in online romance spaces with shady at best intentions. We talk parasociality, the capitalism of it all, centering men, and how BookTok and Bookstagram have become ground zero of a change we're seeing in the separation between real and online life. Do you agree with our takes? Are you a book boyfriend defender forever? Do you have absolutely no idea what we're talking about because you're not chronically online? Let us know in a review or in the comments on our socials. Enjoy the show!

Butcher & Blackbird episode

Reformed Rakes Fabio episode

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Comrades!! It's the beginning of a new era! Caro officially joins the podcast as a co-host. We're debuting some new theme music. And to kick it all off, we're talking about thee primordial rom-com and also the inspo behind the name of this podcast, IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT. Y'all are not gonna believe how many of your favorite tropes were birthed from this movie or just how sexy it is considering our MCs never kiss on screen. Enjoy the show!

Caro's previous episodes: Wuthering Heights; All-Nighters

Marxist High School Musical

Everyone is Beautiful and No One is Horny

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A New Era dawns in Romancelandia! Alison, a romance author and reader, and Caro, a romance blogger, chat the romance novels that make us want to stay up reading and the romance community tea that keeps us up too. Join us weekly for book deep dives, hot topics, watch parties, author interviews, and more!

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Comrades! Welcome to this special announcement episode where we welcome Caro as the new co-host of the podcast and also announce that we're heading back to weekly episodes! So excited to start this new era. We're back in your earholes next Wednesday.

Caro's previous episodes: Wuthering Heights; All-Nighters

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Hey comrades! Laura Piper Lee comes on the podcast to talk her latest release, stoner romcom, POT SHOT, her experience with Crohn's and weed, and disability representation in romance. Enjoy the show!

Connect with Laura: website; Insta

Preorder DOOMSDATE; see Laura on tour

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Hello, listener! This episode features the incredible Lavanya Lakshmi (you might recognize her name because I included her book LEAVE AND COME BACK on my list of All-Nighters for 2026 so far!) and we're talking about families in romance—blood ties, found family, blending families, multicultural families, and more. We also leave you with plenty of recs for where to start your Bollywood journey and excellent books featuring family. Enjoy the show!

Get LEAVE AND COME BACK!

Connect with Lavanya: website; IG

Episodes mentioned:

All-Nighters 2026 Part 1

Season of Love

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Hey comrades! Caro's back on the podcast this week to chat our favorite romance reads of the year so far--the books that made us want to stay up all night reading them. Get out your Goodreads and your Storygraph because you're gonna walk away from this episode with an absolutely stuffed TBR. Enjoy the show!

Connect with Caro: Insta; Threads; Wuthering Heights episode

WRION episodes mentioned:

Part of Your World

The Love Hypothesis, Part 1, Part 2

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There's no HEA with reproductive choice! Jessica Cale of Dirty Sexy History joins me to on this week's episode to discuss BOMBSHELL by Sarah MacLean (the first in the Hell's Belles series) featuring bisexual icon, Sesily Talbot, and Large American Man™, Caleb Calhoun, plus Jessica's upcoming history of contraceptives and abortion, FORBIDDEN FRUIT (out 1/27/27). Obviously, we talk a lot about birth control, abortion, pregnancy, and women's/gender rights history, so if those topics make you uncomfortable, this episode might not be for you. Enjoy the show!

Connect with Jessica: website; Instagram

Preoroder FORBIDDEN FRUIT

Support the National Network of Abortion Funds

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