{"podcast":{"title":"One Nightstand","slug":"one-nightstand-7695764","podcast_index_feed_id":7695764,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/101fbe5e4/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bustle1","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/43182529/43182529-1741191707011-a33ba8c304411.jpg","author":"Bustle","episode_count":42,"summary":"Bustle's One Nightstand asks celebrity readers and writers to share their four favourite books. Our host — Charlotte Owen — will go deep on each selection, learning more about the lives of each guest in the process.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-08T02:18:20.042999+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/one-nightstand-7695764"},"episode":{"title":"Issa Rae","slug":"issa-rae","published_at":"2025-09-10T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/one-nightstand-7695764/issa-rae","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/one-nightstand-7695764","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bustle1/episodes/Issa-Rae-e381t0q","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO7679657669.mp3","summary":"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","meta_description":"In ⁠One Nightstand⁠ , celebrity readers and writers join us at ⁠The Blond⁠ in ⁠11 Howard⁠ to discuss their favorite books.In this episode, writer, produce…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2707,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/one-nightstand-7695764/episodes/issa-rae/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/one-nightstand-7695764/issa-rae.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}