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.

Around the time Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann welcomed their second child, the filmmaker decided to take a break from work. He spent much of the year or so hiatus caring for newborn Iris, but it also marked an unexpected turning point: Apatow began reading more than he ever had in his life. “I think it was the specificity of describing the human condition [in these books] that, through osmosis, reoriented me somehow. I got less dumb,” Apatow tells Bustle ahead of the release of his latest book, Comedy Nerd . “Then as soon as I was done, I went right into making The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Kn

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