Sweet Valley Diaries

After years of wide-eyed blogging about the surreal 1980s perfection of Francine Pascal’s Sweet Valley High book series (and the surprising psychodrama that lurks below the town’s perfectly-tanned surface), host Marissa Flaxbart is now forcing people to read the series with her.

But beyond its obsession with the ubiquitous-yet-obscure book series, SWEET VALLEY DIARIES is a podcast about nostalgia — '80s nostalgia in particular — and the ways this nostalgia can (spectacularly, hilariously) fail us. It’s a riotous cultural conversation about which parts of the past we long for and which ones we want to leave behind for good. It’s about friendship, honesty, and learning to speak your truth in the face of a boyfriend-stealing cheerleader or an evil triplet. It’s all the life lessons you could ever hope to learn from two size-6, blonde-haired, aqua-eyed, identical 16-year-old twins. Strap in.

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