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Bestselling novelist, screenwriter & former archaeologist with a PhD pulls back the curtain on books & the film & TV world, & goes off-script with a guide to history, culture, & society told with wit & fury.

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3am Book Club. "'Yacht.' Not 'boat'." (And other things Miles Beauchamp wants to clarify)

Sunday Reilly has been on Hydros for less that 24hrs. And she has already acquired a cat, a ghostwriting deal, and an invitation onto a superyacht.

Thank God It's Fucking Friday Countdown

The ten things that made me spray my coffee halfway across the room this week.

Behind the Curtain Episode 5: He's an Egg That's Already Hard-Boiled

Why we're pushing back against our producer, and what Luke Skywalker has to do with it.

3am Book Club: Sunday Finds Her People on a Greek Island. They Are Not Who She Expected.

Sunday finds a room over a taverna with a sunset view, a daughter she didn't know she needed, and Mimi at the end of a phone at exactly the right moment.

The Machine Said: "The Not-Knowing Doesn't Feel Neutral to Me."

I was asking AI to help me with hashtags. It ended up saying something I haven't stopped thinking about.

The 3am Book Club and the Woman Who Calls Sunday's Sandals "Fun"

Hydros is everything. Katerina Entwhistle is something else entirely. A new chapter in Sunday's midlife adventure begins in a small apartment above a stranger's house.

Behind the Curtain, Episode 4: Fuck Off, Rocket Boy

What Elon Musk gets wrong and what Christopher Nolan gets right about historical accuracy in the Odyssey, and, yes, I've got something to say about it.

It's 3am Book Club time again!

Proving midlife crises are no fucking walk in the park, Sunday Reilly barely escapes a lynching, and finds herself in adventure sandals as she flees her Greek island paradise.

Sam Neill Wrote My Son a Note: 'It's a Struggle. But Persist.'

What I learned about the real Sam Neill while writing his TV series and book about Captain Cook, and why the world is poorer without him

It's 3am Bookclub time!

If you thought Sunday Reilly had reached rock bottom, think again. Her Greek island paradise is about to go to hell in a handbasket.