Friendship
There’s nothing easy about friendship, though Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman surely make camaraderie seem as effortless as breathing. Between co-hosting the wildly popular podcast Call Your Girlfriend, which finds the two connecting from opposite coasts to being invoked as friendship experts in such publications as the Washington Post and the Guardian, Sow and Friedman have become interlinked both in public and outside of it. They met more than a decade ago in Washington, D.C., when both were in the tumult of transition—Friedman moving from California, where she’d been so comfortable in her environment but frustrated with her job, and Sow moving on from a job that felt unsatisfying—and the pair quickly bonded over a mutual love of Obsession and other bad movies and a shared interest in denim skirts. Since then, as Friedman has returned to California and Sow has found her professional footing in New York, they’ve forged what they call a big friendship—one that has changed them both, mad...