Host
Olivia Ponton
Model and content creator who hosts Booked, Blonde & Busy, the rare creator-fronted podcast that treats a book as the main event rather than a publicity stop.
Hosts the show
Coverage
Booked, Blonde & Busy w/ Olivia Ponton·Culture
Caitlin Bea says she nearly became a Sims creator instead of a BookTok creator
The BookTok personality's pandemic fork in the road explains why her reading taste feels less like literary canon and more like hobby monetization with better lighting.
Booked, Blonde & Busy w/ Olivia Ponton·Culture
Rebecca Serle says In Five Years came from a psychic who predicted her future husband’s name and timing
The novelist’s fate-obsessed bestseller has a very on-brand origin story, though it works better as literary fuel than as evidence for the supernatural.
Booked, Blonde & Busy w/ Olivia Ponton·Culture
Candace Bushnell says a typical 90s New York night was 20 drinks, a couple grams of coke, and two packs of cigarettes
The Sex and the City author gives Gen Z the least cosmo-glossy version of the myth: the real New York was darker, meaner, smokier, and much more financially brutal than the HBO fantasy.