All right, everybody, welcome back. Here we go again. This is the Other People podcast. I'm Brad Listy. I'm the host of this show. And I appreciate you listening. Hope you're doing well, wherever you happen to be. I have a great conversation to share with you today.

Curtis Sittenfeld is my guest.

She has a new story collection out.

It is called Show Don't Tell.

It is available from Random House.

And this is the second time I've spoken with Curtis on the program,

but it has been more than a decade, almost 12 years, I believe, if I'm

doing the math correctly. Curtis first guessed it back in 2013 in episode 210. So a long time ago,

12 years. That's about the spacing. That's a healthy spacing. You talk to me and then you go through that and then

you wait 12 years and then you talk to me again. I understand that. Really fun to catch up with

Curtis Sittenfeld and to speak with her about her existence and her work and this new story collection of hers.

That conversation is coming up in just a couple of minutes.

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Blue Sky and in addition to that I've got something else in the works. I'm not going to tell you what it is, but I'm going to tease it right now just because I feel like it. I'm very excited about it. It's something I've wanted to do on this show for a long time, but I'm going to tease it right now just because I feel like it. I'm very excited about it.

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