#14 Jo Piazza: Trad Wives, BookTok, and What's Next in Publishing

The Everygirl Book Club welcomes author, podcaster, and bookseller Jo Piazza to discuss her career and latest novel Parisian Heist, plus what everyone is reading and anticipating. Piazza talks about DNFing without guilt, packed fall releases (including Exit Party, Understory, and Switzy), and her upcoming projects: a middle grade multiverse dinosaur series and an adult retelling of The Sound of Music’s Baroness Schraeder. She reflects on industry changes—market crowding, overworked publishers, lighter editing, and social-media attention demands—while praising in-person reader community. She explains becoming a “tradwife” fiction expert after Everyone Is Lying To You and argues fiction channels cultural rage and empathy.

00:00 Welcome to Book Club

00:16 Meet Jo Piazza

01:10 Read Receipts

11:12 DNF Without Guilt

12:57 Fall Books Excitement

16:56 Jo’s Writing Projects

22:53 Publishing Industry Shifts

26:08 BookTok Attention Economy

37:48 The Tradwife Moment Explained

46:39 Parisian Heist Origins

52:04 Reader Prescriptions

59:42 LITigation

01:02:31 Wrap Up And Sign Off

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Books Mentioned

1. Hollow Bones by Jodi Picoult

2. Fruit Fly by Josh Silver

3. Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

4. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

5. Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel

6. Understory by Chloe Benjamin

7. The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

8. Switzy by Emma Cline

9. American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee

10. Hollywood Ending by John Green

11. Partita by Barbara Kingsolver

13. Once in a Timeline by Iman Hariri-Kia

14. Fossil Feud by Maggie North

15. The Good Parts by Evann Normandin

16. Trad Wife by Saratoga Schaefer

17. Everyone is Lying to You by Jo Piazza

18. The Parisian Heist by Jo Piazza

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