Penn Badgley & ‘Podcrushed’ Crew Joining Billboard Book Club to Discuss ‘Crushmore’ Essay Collection: How to Watch Live

The hosts of Podcrushed — actor Penn Badgley with Nava Kavelin and Sophie Ansari — are tackling a brand-new medium with this week’s release of Crushmore: Essays on Love, Loss, and Coming-of-Age. And at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT Thursday (Oct. 16), the trio will join Billboard Book Club for a livestream to chat all about the essay collection and sell signed copies.

For the latest installment of Billboard Book Club, the trio behind Podcrushed — a podcast launched in 2022 to explore the awkwardness and heartbreak that defines adolescence — will talk about their Crushmore book, which continues the journey to unpack the importance of middle school self-discovery. Guests on the Podcrushed podcast have included Ariana Grande, Jonas Brothers, Jenna Ortega, Drew Barrymore and Badgley’s Gossip Girl co-star Leighton Meester.

Powered by TalkShopLive, the Podcrushed live shoppable interview will air at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT on Thursday, where fans can order a copy of the book, including a version signed by Badgley, Kavelin and Ansari. The full conversation will be available for anyone to watch in the video player above or on Billboard socials.

Billboard Book Club first launched in April, with its kick-off interview with Spice Girls’ Geri Halliwell-Horner. The singer joined Billboard to talk about her book Rosie Frost: Ice on Fire, the sequel to New York Times bestseller Rosie Frost & the Falcon Queen. In June, Victoria Monét joined Billboard Book Club to chat about penning Everywhere You Are, an adorable illustrated children’s book about a moon who comforts a young star as they part ways at dawn. And just this week, Canadian singer/songwriter Jessie Reyez joined Billboard Book Club for a shoppable interview around her The People’s Purge poetry collection.

You can find all of Billboard‘s shoppable TalkShopLive interviews here, including past chats with Garth Brooks, Sabrina Carpenter, Shaboozey and more.