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Alli Hoff Kosik

Alli Hoff Kosik

Philadelphia-based writer, editor, and author of the debut novel Too Blessed to Stress (Grand Central Publishing, 2026); former creator and host of The SSR Podcast.

Sep 14, 2026

LauraHOST
22:21
Talk to us about the Behind the Scene podcast.
22:25
Oh, so b- I was like, "Oh, right," 'cause I have this wild acronym for it.
22:29
So it's BTS TBTS, Behind the Scenes to Less Stress.
22:34
And it's a six-part miniseries that I decided to put together, really exploring the question that I brought up earlier, which is like, how did I come to the subject material? Again, I've spent a lot of time thinking about, like, how I wanna talk about these questions when I'm at events and on podcasts, because there are going to be people in every audience who have their own personal experiences with religion, and they might still be involved and plugged into religious communities.
22:58
And so even though I spent a lot of time researching for this book, I still want to own the fact that I come to it largely as an outsider.
23:05
And so BTS TBTS is really an exploration of how I got to this fascination.
23:12
It unpacks kind of my, like, really young life observing people missing school for their first Holy Communions, attending over-the-top bar mitzvah parties, always kind of being on the outside of it as somebody who is from a mixed faith family and whose parents were divorced, and so I was never really involved in either of those religious traditions.

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LauraHOST
29:31
That one I'm actually curious about.

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