All right, everybody. How are you out there? What's going on? This is the Other People program. I'm Brad Listy in Los Angeles. Thank you for tuning in. I certainly appreciate that. I am delighted to have Lee Stein back on the program.

She has a new poetry collection out on Soft Skull.

It is called What to Miss When.

This is Lee Stein's fourth time on the show.

She was here just last year, I believe,

celebrating the publication of her critically acclaimed satirical novel, Self-Care.

And I should note that I usually do not have repeat guests on the program in this quick of a turnaround.

Usually there's a bit more space between appearances. But Lee's

work is very contemporary. It's rooted in popular culture. And in particular, it is concerned

with our digital lives and what the internet is doing to us at the level of identity, at the level

of relationships, at the level of politics. And she wrote

this new poetry collection, What to Miss When, during the coronavirus pandemic. She was in quarantine.

She was sober. She didn't drink for a hundred days. You're going to hear us talk about that.

And she was writing poetry for the first time in a long time,

which was related to the fact that she was not drinking.

And I think it was too related to the fact that we were all in quarantine

and there was a global pandemic happening.

But I just felt that it would be useful to talk to Lee, knowing her, knowing what she is concerned

with as an artist and as a human being, I felt like it would be relatable and interesting.

And it certainly was that.

So I'm very excited to have Lee back on the show and to share today's conversation with you.

I think you're going to enjoy it.

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