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I'm not sure what. It's a Sunday episode. It's a Sunday episode.

I have Lynn Steiger Strong on the program. She has a new novel out on the Henry Holt imprint. The novel is called want.

And it is excellent. I get a lot of books sent to me and I can't read them all.

Sometimes I'm getting five books a day at my door and it can become a little overwhelming.

I can find myself feeling like anxious with all these books. And so what I'll do is ultimately I box some of them up and I give them away

because I don't have enough room to shelve them all.

But I will sift through and sort out books that look like they might be

of interest to me and I'll keep them on hand and hope that I can find time to read them at some point.

And not too long ago, I was in my garage and I was sitting there and there was this big pile of books

looking at me. And on a whim, I just started to sift through it,

and I came upon Lynn Steger Strong's new novel. Again, it is called Want. And I looked at it,

and I opened it, and I started reading, and I blew through it. I think I did it in two sittings.

It's a superb book, and I think it's a timely book, too.

So after reading it, I immediately reached out to her,

and she agreed to talk with me, and she's on the program today.

I'm recording this on Friday, October 2nd, 2020.

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