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Music Hello, and welcome back to Big Mood Little Mood. I'm your host, Danny Lavery, and with me in the studio

this week is Felicia Reich, a nonfiction comedy writer of personal essays and cultural commentary

who lives in Brooklyn with her collection of books, decorative pillows, and concert posters.

Felicia, welcome to the show. Hi, Danny. Thank you so much for having me. It's

lovely to see you again. I'm so glad to be seeing you again, too, and I am curious. Do you have

any, like, recommendations for either good places to get decorative pillows or, like, how many

decorative pillows is too many? If you have a thought on, like, quantity.? So first question first, a little antique store

in Cold Spring in upstate New York or the Hudson area. I know people get sensitive about that.

So I would say like beacon, cold spring, you're in good company when it comes to decorative pillows.

Mine in particular is one of a set of four of the many seasons, the Muka paintings of fall,

spring, summer, winter, I have fall because I am a November baby.

And then in terms of how many, the limit does not exist.

So you're telling me you could walk into someone's house and truly every surface was covered

in decorative pillows and you wouldn't for a moment think this is a little bit too much.

I think that they would need to be tasteful.

I think that they would need to tell a story with their pillows and, you know, maybe

keep some special ones aside for seasons, a particular guest perhaps.

But yeah, otherwise you're fine.

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