Amanda Montell

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1,990 appearances 11 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 15 Sep

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Sounds Like A Cult · The Cult of Dark Tourism · 18 Aug 2026 podcast

Sheila, welcome to Sounds Like a Cult.

It is so delightful to have you here.

I mean, as morbid as the subject matter is, you are the perfect person to guest host this episode with me.

I wanted to kind of like introduce you to the cultes before we really dive in today.

So Sheila is one of my dear friends, also an author.

That's how we met.

Sheila is also a travel writer for publication.

Like The New York Times.

So you have seen so much Sheila's debut novel, The Goddess Effect, has some seriously culty themes.

And I think the foundation of our friendship was writing about modern-day cultishness in various forms.

And yes, that paved the way for a friendship.

We are, I guess, now also collaborators.

We commiserate about the writer life.

connect over the writer life.

I go over to Sheila's house she lives in my neighborhood.

She makes the meanest Negroni in Southern California.

I always say her house is my favorite bar.

And you have a new book out that relates to at least the cult of tourism.

Could you talk a little bit about your new book and maybe how it connects to today's subject.

So Sheila's books are absolute romps.

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