Manuel Betancourt joins The Naughty Librarian "TNL" to offer invaluable advice, wisdom and musings on intimacy in our modern times. Film critic/culture writer for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire, GQ and more, Manuel Betancourt is the author of several books including: Hello Stranger (2025), The Male Gazed (2023), Judy at Carnegie Hall (2020), and the Cardboard Kingdom (2018).

ABOUT US: The Naughty Librarian “TNL”! Storytellers! A traveling podcast about books and music and their creators. Let’s go there! Join host Alexander Loudon and special guest co-hosts for an entertaining, inspiring, educating and thought-provoking unique twist at looking at the written and spoken word. In this podcast you get stories not told elsewhere from celebrities to everyday heroes - wordsmiths who are harnessing the word and telling stories in a darin ...