Molly is a writer and iconic Valley Girl. You can read her in tons of magazines like Elle, InStyle, the New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker. She also wrote the introduction to the newest collection of Eve Babitz essays, “I Used To Be Charming: The Rest Of Eve Babitz.” We talk about Comrade Britney, Mimi Zhu, Lana Del Rey, Rihanna, Grace Jones, Madonna, Eve Babitz, Joan Didion, Susan Sontag and “The Murder of Laci Peterson.” We also talk about interviewing celebrities for magazines, clearing our heads at LA malls and pining for clothes at the old Betsey Johnson store in Sherman Oaks. 

Molly tells us about organizing Angelenos around housing inequality and describes how hosting the Olympics causes cities to fast track gentrification, escalate policing and further criminalize homelessness. She also shares the history of her grandmother’s own experiences as a Jewish-German Olympic athlete in pre-WWII Germany. 

Follow @NOlympics LA for more on that and @mollylambert on IG and Twitter <3

Also, listen to Molly's podcast Nightcall with cohosts Tess Lynch and Emily Yoshida every Monday. Call their hotline at (240) 466 4448 to leave them a message about PLASTIC SURGERY all April.

And check out Molly's special Summer House quarantine podcast via her Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mollyssleazyfriends/posts

Thanks to our audio producer and sound designer Margot Padilla <3 First ep recorded on Skype as we socially distance! 

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