Issa Rae
One Nightstand · Sep 10, 2025 · 45:07
One Nightstand · Sep 10, 2025 · 45:07
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In One Nightstand, celebrity readers and writers join us at The Blond in 11 Howard to discuss their favorite books.In this episode, writer, producer, and actor Issa Rae sits down with Charlotte Owen to discuss her new book, I Should Be Smarter by Now. Issa shares why life is better after your 20s, the book she’s desperate to adapt, and what she “romanticized” in her hit HBO series Insecure.
The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Great Black Hope by Rob Franklin
I Should be Smarter by Now by Issa Rae
Issa’s new collection of essays, I Should Be Smarter by Now, is available now on Amazon and Audible.
Credits
Director/Director of Photography: Marshall Stief
Assistant Camera: Jasmin Velez
Post Supervisor: Delia Kelly
Post Production Manager: Mateo Delgadillo
Editor: Alex Viola
Producer: Aubree Lennon
