Text Me Back! LIVE! with Lindy West & Meagan Hatcher-Mays

LINDY WEST
Lindy West (she/her) is the author of the New York Times best selling memoir “Shrill” and the essay collections The Witches Are Coming and Shit, Actually. Her fourth book, Adult Braces, a follow-up to Shrill, will be released in 2025. Her work has appeared in This American Life, The New York Times, The Guardian, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Vulture, Jezebel, and many others. She currently co-hosts the weekly comedy podcast Text Me Back. She is the co-founder of the reproductive rights de-stigmatization campaign #ShoutYourAbortion. Lindy was a writer and executive producer on Shrill, the Hulu comedy adapted from her memoir starring Aidy Bryant. She co-wrote and produced the independent feature film Thin Skin, released in 2023. Her e-mail newsletter, Butt News, is regarded by everyone as the most influential and beloved e-mail newsletter of all time.

MEGAN HATCHER-MAYS
Meagan Hatcher-Mays is the co-host of Text Me Back, a podcast about her deranged and beloved relationship with her BFF Lindy West. She is also, no joke, a lawyer in good standing based in Washington, DC. Before becoming a wildly successful part-time podcast host, she worked as an expert on democracy policy at several progressive organizations as well as in Congress. Meagan has appeared on MSNBC (“All In” with Chris Hayes, “American Voices” with Alicia Menendez, “Velshi”), Peacock (“The Mehdi Hasan Show,” “Zerlina”) and BNC (“Prime with Charles Blow) and has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, CBS News, Vox, and more as a subject matter expert on the courts and democracy.

Text Me Back is a delightfully deranged celebration of the 25-year best friendship between New York Times bestselling author Lindy West and recovering lawyer and democracy expert Meagan Hatcher-Mays. The pair dissects pop culture, politics, snakes, the paranormal, and anything else that crosses their minds with equal parts chaos and insight. In this special live edition of their beloved podcast, expect lots of election talk in the duo’s signature style of serious, smart, satirical, and funny as hell social commentary.

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