Welcome back, listeners, to the bookcase. This is a notable edition of the bookcase.

Yes, yes, it is. And I wish we had come up with our own little ditty to celebrate before we got on the air. But we didn't. But it's been 100 episodes, 100 episodes.

There, that was as close as that was what I came up with on the moment's notice.

But we are really excited to-

She's a great ad liver.

When we started, we had no idea that this would be so fulfilling for us.

And we hope for those of you who listen. We have had an embarrassment

of riches of authors. We have had, I think, as I keep saying, a masterclass in writing. And that is

particularly true today. We have, for our 100th edition of the bookcase with Kate and Charlie,

we have a rock star in the writing world.

We do.

We have one of those brains that it's almost intimidating to put on the other end of the call.

Well, the guy went to Yale.

Let's not build him up too much.

Let's take him down a few pecks.

Amor Tolls, who is the rock star writer of gentlemen in Moscow, Rules of Civility,

The Lincoln Highway, is out with a new book called Table for Two, which is short, you know,

I don't want to say it's just short stories.

It's short stories plus a novella, which the novella is a sequel to Rules of Civility. So if you're a fan of Rules of

Civility, and I certainly was, you're not going to want to miss this book. Essentially, I think

he sort of burst on the scene with Rules of Civility, which is his first book, but a gentleman

in Moscow, I think, really put him on the map. And when I picked it up and thought, this is a book that takes, the whole book takes place inside a hotel, but it was compelling.

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