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