BookSoap

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BookSoap is an audio drama parody about the efforts of a small group of Internet entrepreneurs, working in the late 1990s, to get more traffic to their web site, which features recorded interviews with the authors of new books. The show includes interviews with actors portraying real authors, such as Elizabeth Wurtzel (author of Prozac Nation) and Jeremy Rifkin (author of The Biotech Century), as well as imaginary authors of imaginary books, one of which purported to be an explanation of everything and one of which claimed to be the "inside story" of the making of the swimsuit issue of a well-known magazine.

There is also a special guest appearance by the late Timothy McVeigh who, in the story, is dating Ms. Wurtzel, who had (really) expressed a form of sympathy for him in her book Bitch.