Hey Wave listeners, we're off this week for the holiday season, but don't worry we will be back in your feeds on January 5th.

We will have an amazing chat with author and fat activist Aubrey Gordon on her new book,

you just need to lose weight and 19 other myths about

fat people.

You won't want to miss it.

In the meantime, we wanted to bring you one of our favorite episodes from 2022, slate staff writer Heather Schwadell and Slate Books and Culture

columnist Laura Miller talk about how Jillian Flynn's Gone Girl changed the publishing world forever.

Happy holidays, we'll see you in 2023. Welcome to the waves, Slate's podcast about gender, feminism and framing your bad

husband for murder. Every episode you get a new pair of women to talk about the thing we can't get off our minds

and today you've got me Heather Spadel, a slate staff writer.

And me Laura Miller, Slate book's and culture columnist.

And today we're celebrating the 10-year anniversary of a little book called Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, and we're attempting

to reckon with all that it has wrought in the publishing industry and beyond.

I remember what a big deal Gone Girl was when it came out it was the book of that

summer I read it on the beach along with everyone else and probably I wanted to read

it in the first place because critics like you Laura were raving about it it got such amazing

reviews out of the gate and you've written a lot about Gong Girl and it's imitators

over the years yes Yes, I have.

I was really floored by Gone Girl when I first read it,

which was just before it was published.

It's such a clever, well-written, insightful thriller,

and it's set in the sort of post-recession late aots

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