Hello friends and welcome to Talk Nurdy. I'm your host Kara Santa Maria and I am

really excited about the episode I've got for you today. But first, a little bit of business.

I really want to thank all of you who continue to support Talk Nurdy in the many ways that you do.

First, thanks so much for listening.

It really means a lot to me and thanks so much to those of you who

take the time to rate and review the show on iTunes and Stitcher. Also a really big

thank you to those of you who have purchased Talk Nurdy Swag from my online store at care Santa Maria.com.

Keep sending me those pictures of the t-shirts and stickers that you have stuck everywhere

and I'm going to keep posting them on Twitter.

And last, thanks so much to you guys who have gone to my website and who have made donations.

All of this stuff helps me keep producing brand new episodes of TalkNurdy all by myself every week and delivering them to you 100% free of charge.

This week I want to specifically thank, let me see, Jason Sone Greenberg from New York City,

and also Robert Finlay from Salt Lake City, Utah

for your generous donations.

You guys are the absolute best. You keep this train on the

tracks. All right guys without any further ado I would like to introduce my incredible

guests today. Her name is Sarah Benincasa and she is a wonderful comedian and

author of two books. Agora Fabulous Dispatches from my bedroom and most

recently she wrote great a Gatsby inspired young adult novel

about lesbian love and drama. Thank you so much for joining me Sarah. I'm so excited to be here. I'm so excited you are here.

Sarah and I just had breakfast. This is becoming a common theme on the podcast. I'm like,

so and so and I just ate a bunch of food and it was fun. It was great I had second breakfast. Oh yeah I had

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