We’re going to make this goodbye short and sweet: Vox Quick Hits is ending. 

All of us from the Vox Culture Desk and the team at The Goods want to thank you for following our work and tuning in to Tell Me More, Ask a Book Critic, The Best Money I Ever Spent and What to Watch. You can still keep up with us on vox.com.

Vox Quick Hits was made by...

Hosts:

• Constance Grady
• Meredith Haggerty
• Rebecca Jennings
• Alanna Okun
• Emily Stewart
• Emily VanDerWerff
• Alissa Wilkinson

Producers: Sofi Lalonde and Schuyler Swenson

Senior Producer: Taylor Maycan

Engineers: Paul Robert Mounsey

Editors: Julia Rubin and Jen Trolio

Executive Producer: Liz Kelly Nelson

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Everything you should have watched this summer as recommended — for the final time — by Vox's film critic Alissa Wilkinson (@alissamarie) and critic at large Emily VanDerWerff (@emilyvdw). Thanks for listening to What to Watch. If you enjoyed the show, please rate Vox Quick Hits ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.

Hosts: Alissa Wilkinson (@alissamarie) and Emily VanDerWerff (@emilyvdw)

Producer: Taylor Maycan (@taylormaycan)

Engineer: Melissa Pons (Hemlock Creek Productions)

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Writer Gray Chapman tells us why a dinner of oysters, caviar, and champagne the night before she gave birth was the best $298 she ever spent. 

Link to essay: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22456529/best-money-birth-c-section-oysters-cocktail 

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• - Engineer: Paul Robert Mounsey

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For our very last episode, a listener asked for books with disabled protagonists. Specifically, characters whose disability is not their defining trait. Ask a Book Critic will continue in text form, so don’t stop sending your requests! Check out vox.com/ask-a-book-critic. Thank you for listening! 

Constance recommends: 

• The Cormoran Strike books by Robert Galbraith
• Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
• The Wolf Hall trilogy by Hilary Mantel
• Seamstress by Frances de Pontes Peebles

If you’re looking for a book recommendation, you can email [email protected] — and be sure to use the subject line “Ask a Book Critic.” 

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Writer Mae Rice goes to Starbucks every day. She tells us why she has no plans to stop.

Link to essay: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/4/9/18296792/starbucks-habit-millennials-money 

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• Producers: Sofi LaLonde (@sofilalonde)
• Engineer: Cristian Ayala

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HBO’s hit series The White Lotus takes the darkly comedic mind of creator Mike White and turns it loose on an elite resort in Hawaii. It’s a very funny, very engrossing look at the global mega-rich, with phenomenal performances up and down the cast list. And you can watch all six episodes right now.

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Episode by: 

• - Hosts: Alissa Wilkinson (@alissamarie) and Emily VanDerWerff (@emilyvdw)
• - Producer: Taylor Maycan (@taylormaycan)
• - Engineer: Melissa Pons (Hemlock Creek Productions)

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A listener asks for help with getting out of a reading rut. A voracious reader as a child, they now need some help falling in love with reading again. Vox Book Critic Constance Grady recommends big, grab-you-by-the-throat books to help us all rediscover our love of reading. Plus, hear some of Constance’s conversation with Tamsyn Muir from their Vox Book Club Zoom event.

Constance recommends:

• The Carry On series by Rainbow Rowell
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
• The Shadow and Bone series by Leigh Bardugo
• Sorcery and Cecilia: Or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Caroline Stevermer and Patricia Wrede
• Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth of the Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir

If you’re looking for a book recommendation, you can email [email protected] –  Be sure to use the subject line “Ask a Book Critic.” 

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Three movies and a TV show perfect for back-to-school season. 

Alissa’s picks:

• ‘Legally Blonde’ 
• ‘Approaching the Elephant’

Emily’s picks: 

• ‘Community’ 
• ‘To Have and To Be’

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• - Producer: Taylor Maycan (@taylormaycan)

- Engineer: Paul Robert Mounsey

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Writer Doree Shafrir explains why she and her husband spent $3,000 on dog training for their unruly yet deeply loved dog, Beau. 

Link to essay: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/7/9/20677946/doree-shafrir-dog-training-best-money

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CODA is a heartwarming coming-of-age story about a teen, her dreams, and her deaf family. In theaters now and streaming on Apple TV+.

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A listener asked for books that are mysterious, intriguing, and may or may not involve a murder. More specifically, books like The Secret History. Vox book critic Constance Grady gives four recommendations this week, including an entire genre. Plus, hear part of last year’s Vox Book Club Zoom event about The Secret History with writer Nicole Cliffe.

Constance recommends: 

• If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio
• The Likeness by Tana French
• Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
• Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

If you’re looking for a book recommendation, you can email [email protected] — and be sure to use the subject line “Ask a Book Critic.” 

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