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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, reading and listening

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the Telemarketers docuseries, Celebrity Book Club and the novel Once More with Feeling.
Sam Lipman-Stern in the HBO docuseries <em>Telemarketers.</em>

This week Taylor Swift created a new wrinkle, Adam Driver talked solidarity, and a big book prize named its finalists.

Here's what the NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend.

Once More with Feeling by Elissa Sussman

Elissa Sussman wrote a romance that I really liked called and this new book, has some similar elements. It's about a woman who was a pop star when she was young. She was dating a

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