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Hello and welcome to episode number 740 of Smart Podcast Trashy Books.

I'm Sarah Wendell and by listener request, my guest today is author and professor Jodi McAlister.

You might remember Jodi from her appearance in episode 626 when we talked about her Marry Me Juliet trilogy, which is set within a fictional world of The Bachelor.

Now she's in the middle of a new trilogy she is calling Love Notes, and we are going to discuss the latest book, A Study

I'm Kris Bryant, a contemporary romance writer for Bold Strokes Books, and this week I'm recommending a 2024 queer movie.

And I'm Tara Scott, and I review sapphic fiction, The Lesbian Review, and Smart Bitches Trashy Books.

And this week, I'm recommending a romance that is part of a series that I really love.

Yay! I'm excited to hear.

Uh, But when we think about the kind of classic 70s, 80s, 90s, I think 70s and 80s are kind of one thing, and then we start to see this shift in the kind of late 80s, particularly into the mid-90s, into the 2000s.

In their book Beyond Heaving Bosoms, Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan talk about this as old school versus new school romance, school with a K.

And it's not that binaristic.

It's a little bit of a spectrum.

Hello, and welcome to episode number 738 of Smart Podcast Trashy Books.

I'm your host, Sarah Wendell.

This week, I am joined by Adib Koram.

Adib's new book, Isn't He Romantic?, is out this week.