In this final installment of the Finding the Throughline interview with James Beard Award-nominated journalist Hannah Selinger (whose book, Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly, will be released in 2025 and is available for pre-order now), we talk about what’s coming up next for her as well as what she’s been reading, watching, and eating, including:

- The badass Martha Stewart documentary

- “Health and Safety,” a memoir by Emily Witt, staff writer at “The New Yorker”

- Her invention of the term #Scandivol

- How “The Real Housewives” series rope you in

- Her best friend who gives her major writer’s envy

- Her goal to get off the hamster wheel of freelance

- Why she hopes her book “Cellar Rat” will piss people off

- The most pleasurable books she read this year

- An ode to French vanilla coffee creamer, McDonald’s french fries, and the Indigo Girls

Connect with Hannah at https://www.hannahselinger.net/ or on Instagram @druishamericanprincess.

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