Join us as we welcome Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Saul Austerlitz, Thea Glassman and Kirthana Ramisetti, the authors and co-founders of Ministry of Pop Culture. They will offer insights into how they turned their love of pop culture into careers, including how they come up with story ideas, behind-the-scenes stories of working as entertainment journalists and the writing process for their respective books.

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong is the author of nine books, including the New York Times bestseller Seinfeldia, When Women Invented Television, So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (And Why We’re Still So Obsessed with It), and the forthcoming Parks and Rec. She also writes and curates the Peabody Awards newsletter Peabody Finds.

Saul Austerlitz is the author of six books, includingKind of a Big Deal: How Anchorman Stayed Classy and Became the Most Iconic Comedy of the Twenty-First Century, which was selected byNew Yorkmagazine as the best comedy book of 2023, andGeneration Friends: An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era.

Thea Glassman is the author of the book Freaks, Gleeks and Dawson's Creek, a behind-the-scenes deep dive into the making of seven groundbreaking teen television shows. Her forthcoming book, Who's That Girl: The Definitive History of New Girl, will be released by Macmillan in 2026.

Kirthana Ramisetti is the author of novels that reflect her love of pop culture: Dava Shastri's Last Day, a Good Morning America Book Club selection optioned by Max, Advika and the Hollywood Wives and The Other Lata, selected as one of PEOPLE's Best Books of April 2025.