In One Nightstand , celebrity readers and writers join us at The Blond in 11 Howard to discuss some of their favorite books, allowing us to learn about their tastes and lives in the process.

Issa Rae has a confession. “I don’t think L.A. is a good dating city,” she says, shrugging. “I for sure romanticized it in Insecure , knowingly. I was like, ‘I’m deceiving people. I don’t care. This is what I want it to be.’”

The 40-year-old actor and writer may be out of the dating trenches — she married her husband, Louis Diame, in 2021 — but the slippage between the world she wishes existed and the one that does continues to be where she makes magic in her work. Her new essay collection, I Should Be Smarter by Now , is an honest account of the challenges that come with rising in Holl

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