I can't compete with you physically, and you're no match for my brains.

Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Yes. Morons.

I'm Greta Johnson. I'm Trisha Bobita.

And from WBeezy in Chicago, this is Nerdette.

This week we nerd out with author Eden LaPucky about books by everyone from Jennifer Egan to Edith Wharton.

She has the physical markers of the abuses of slavery, so she carries them on her body.

It's a really intense book.

That gives me goosebumps.

Other times I was just blown away by the very nature really intense book. That gives me goosebumps. Yeah. Other times,

I was just blown away by the very nature of the story. She just went there. And then we talk with

TLDR podcast hosts Alex Goldman and PJ Vote about being internet nerds. Alex is better at

understanding things. And I think I'm good at, what if we compare this to noodles? Like, what if the metaphor was

noodles? Noodles as metaphor, literary beach reads and your nerd confessions. That's all coming up on

Nerdette.

This is Nerdette. I'm Trisha Bobita. And I'm Greta Johnson. This week, we talk with Alex Goldman and PJ Vote, hosts and producers of the podcast, TLDR. But first, Eden Lapuckey. She just wrote this awesome novel called California, which I highly recommend. It came out in July. Not only is it a really great book in its own right, but it's also part of this small publishing company you may have

heard of called Hashet. So this is the debate between the big box store of the internet when it comes

to books Amazon and all the little guys. Haschette being the poster boy for the little guys in this

debate about who should be making money off books, how much they should cost. Exactly. Haschette did not agree to some pricing terms that Amazon had. And as a result, Amazon kind of pushed them out. And it's been this controversy. And a lot of different authors who are on the hashette label have jumped into the fray. Probably the loudest and most noteworthy of which is Stephen Colbert. So Eden's gotten the Colbert bump now.

It's time to give her a nerdet bump.

Are we a bump yet?

I don't think we're a bump for people yet, really.

But we really like it when they come on our show.

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