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4.6 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The year is at its end. And in 2018’s honor, Greta talked to four people who’ve made some amazing things about their favorite thing of the year.

Make sense? It’s kind of like a miniature phone tree but for books, music, and TV. Or like a binder’s worth of homework dumped on you hours before the end of the semester. (You're welcome!)

Here are our guest professors:

Celeste Ng, author of the 2017 novel Little Fires Everywhere
Curtis Sittenfeld, author of a 2018 collection of short stories titled You Think It, I’ll Say It
Dessa, a singer, rapper, and writer responsible for both an album called Chime and a memoir called My Own Devices in 2018
Jenny Han, author of To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, which became a smash-hit Netflix movie

To make things as easy for you over-achievers as possible, you can find a list of all their recommendations here.

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still
0:06.1	watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,
0:12.7	soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,
0:18.0	Stories Without End from WBEZ Chicago.
0:25.7	Join me as I share how the genre began, their social impact, and why these stories endure.
0:28.3	Listen wherever you get your podcast.
0:35.3	From WBEZ Chicago, this is NERDET.
0:36.2	I'm Greta Johnson.
0:39.1	And usually, NERDET is a show where we talk to your favorite or soon-to-be favorite people. And this week, we are doing something slightly different.
0:44.4	It is almost the end of 2018. Most of us are probably pretty ready to say good riddance.
0:51.2	But of course, there have been some bright bright spots too. So we thought for our
0:54.3	last episode of the year, I would talk to some of the people who made some of my favorite
0:58.7	things this year about what their favorite thing of 2018 was. You will hear from three awesome
1:05.7	authors, Curtis Sittenfeld, Celeste Ng, and Jenny Hahn. And we will also talk to Dessa, who's a rapper,
1:13.2	and she wrote a really great memoir this year. And she is just super cool. So we have a lot of
1:18.9	really great recommendations for you in this episode. We've got two TV shows, one book and one
1:23.7	piece of pop music analysis. So with that said, let's get started.
1:33.2	First up is Celeste Ng.
1:35.4	Her newest book is called Little Fires Everywhere.
1:38.0	And it was one of my favorite books of 2018, though I did read 75.
1:42.4	So it's very difficult to choose favorites. But her favorite thing is a little show called The Good Place, which is this incredibly delightful TV show, and I don't know how I managed to sleep on it. But it's sort of like really sweet, but also really funny and edgy. And it doesn't,
2:03.1	you know, all those things coexist together. And it's also really smart. Where am I? Who are you
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