The Case For Phone Calls and Low-key Hangs With Friends: Jo Piazza

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Episode #61: Award-winning journalist, best-selling author, and podcast creator, Jo Piazza, joins me to answer the question---Is texting ruining the art of friendship communication? Together we make the case for old-school phone calls and low-key hangs.
We referenced two of Jo's Substack pieces:

• In Praise of the Low-keyHang
• I Don't Want to Text Anymore

Meet Jo Piazza

JJo Piazza is a bestselling author, podcast creator, and award-winning journalist. She is the bestselling author of many critically acclaimed novels and nonfiction books including We Are Not Like Them, Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win, The Knockoff, and How to Be Married. A former editor, columnist, and travel writer with Yahoo, Current TV, and the Daily News (New York), her work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Glamour, Elle, Time, Marie Claire, The Daily Beast, and Slate. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in economics and communication, a master’s in journalism from Columbia University, and a master’s in religious studies from New York University. Her latest podcasts are Under the Influence, She Wants More, and Wilder. Her latest co-authored novel with Christine Pride is You Were Always Mine.

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1. The Case For Phone Calls and Low-key Hangs With Friends: Jo Piazza (00:00:00)

2. Texting vs. Calling in Friendship Communication (00:00:07)

3. Texting and Friendship Intimacy (00:08:45)

4. The Art of Communication (00:15:03)