A bounty of fall books
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This week, R. Eric Thomas, TV writer and author of Congratulations, The Best Is Over!, and Alex Abad-Santos, senior correspondent for Vox, joined us to reflect on the end of the writers’ strike and the 20th anniversary of the pumpkin spice latte.
Then, we revel in the best new books coming out this fall! We called up some of our favorite readers and writers to find out what they’re most excited to read.
Here are the titles in order of when they were mentioned in the episode. For links and full descriptions, head to our website!
‘The Woman in Me’ by Britney Spears
‘Same Bed Different Dreams’ by Ed Park
‘How to Be Multiple: The Philosophy of Twins’ by Helena de Bres
‘Iron Flame’ by Rebecca Yarros
‘Rouge’ by Mona Awad
‘Organ Meats’ by K-Ming Chang
‘A Haunting on the Hill’ by Elizabeth Hand
‘Edith Holler’ By Edward Carey
‘The Reformatory’ by By Tananarive Due
‘The Vaster Wilds’ by Lauren Groff (Nerdette Book Club pick!)
‘Land of Milk and Honey’ by C Pam Zhang (Nerdette Book Club pick!)
‘Roaming’ by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki
‘Vampires of El Norte’ by Isabel Cañas
‘The Iliad’ translated by Emily Wilson
‘The Vulnerables’ by Sigrid Nunez
‘Family Lore’ by Elizabeth Acevedo
‘North Woods’ by Daniel Mason
‘The Unsettled’ by Ayana Mathis
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| 0:28.3 | from wb easy chicago this is nerdette i'm greta john We did it. We made it to another weekend. Coming up, some of our favorite readers are going to give you one million recommendations for what to read this fall. Okay, it's not a million, but it's like at least a dozen, which is pretty exciting. But first, it's our chance to sit back and unwind from the week that was with us this week. |
| 0:55.1 | We have Alex Abad Santos, senior correspondent at Vox. |
| 0:59.2 | Alex, hello. |
| 1:00.4 | Hey, thanks for having me. |
| 1:02.2 | Thanks for coming on. |
| 1:02.9 | Also here is our Eric Thomas, who wrote the essay collection. |
| 1:05.8 | Congratulations. |
| 1:06.7 | The best is over. |
| 1:08.2 | Eric, hello. |
| 1:09.4 | Hello. |
| 1:10.4 | Okay, so let's start with the writer strike. After 146 days, |
| 1:15.2 | the Writers Guild of America says it's come to an agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture |
| 1:18.8 | and Television Producers. Eric, you've written for TV. You are in the Guild, right? Yeah, I am. |
| 1:24.3 | I am technically back to work, although currently without a gig, but I'm very excited to be off of strike. Yeah. |
| 1:32.7 | So, yeah, I can't imagine how difficult that that time period must have been. It sounds like, I mean, it must have just been such a frustrating process. |
| 1:40.8 | Yeah, I mean, not only to sort of not have any idea when things were going to begin again |
| 1:45.9 | and not have any idea how to move forward. You know, a lot of my, a lot of people I know, |
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