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From W be easy Chicago, this is Nurdette.

I'm Greta Johnson and usually Nurdette is a show where we talk to your favorite or soon to be

favorite people.

And this week we are doing something slightly different.

It is almost the end of 2018. Most of us are probably pretty ready to say good riddance, but of course

there have been some bright spots too. So we thought for our last episode of the

year I would talk to some of the people who made some of my favorite things this year about what their favorite thing of 2018 was.

You will hear from three awesome authors, Curtis Sitenfeld, Celesteing, and Jenny Hahn.

And we will also talk to Dessa, who's a rapper

and she wrote a really great memoir this year,

and she is just super cool.

So we have a lot of really great recommendations

for you in this episode.

We've got two TV shows, one book,

and one piece of pop music analysis.

So with that said, let's get started.

First up is Celesteing, her newest book is called Little Fires Everywhere,

and it was one of my favorite books of 2018,

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