Summary: Marjorie Hillis' surprise bestseller Live Alone and Like It was a sensation when it was published in 1936. Determined to shift the narrative around singleness and encourage women to make active choices about their lives, Hillis used the insights gained in her decades as an editor for Vogue to empower single women to enjoy their single years instead of viewing them as an embarrassment. Her innovative ideas about relationships, female empowerment, friendship and career are still relevant today, and her witty, irresistible writing made her books mandatory reads for everyone in the 30s, men and women, married and single alike. (There's even a photo of FDR reading her book on vacation!) Discover how one woman's common-sense ideas about what singleness could look like took a country by storm, and how history's changing narrative turned her story into something she never could have expected.<br> <br> <br> Our guest is Joanna Scutts, author of The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It.
