As an avid reader and entertainment journalist, there is one book I constantly get asked if I have read: Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman. My answer is always, "Yes. It was my TBR before it was even written. The minute it was available for preorder, the charge hit my credit card." It doesn't matter that the Booktok sensation has been on shelves for over a year. People constantly make sure I didn't miss it. Recently, Elissa released her follow-up novel, Once More With Feeling. While I don't expect my friends, co-workers and acquaintances to associate this particular story with me, it almost feels full circle that the author and I have sat down to discuss it.

Laura Hankin and I are not at The Dime. It’s not because we wouldn’t be cool enough. It’s because it’s 10 AM on a Monday and it’s also 2023. Eighteen years ago, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Simpson, and other notable names of the early 2000s were constantly photographed outside the dive bar doors. Making the location, or rather Cofax Coffee located next door, the perfect place for us to discuss her latest book, The Daydreams.