What do you poll dancing AI chatbots and diet culture all have in common?

These subjects have a home on Embodied the award-winning podcast I host from

North Carolina Public Radio W-U-N-C. My name is Anita Rao and you can consider me your personal guide to taking on the taboo.

Join me to explore important questions about our bodies and our society, where nothing is off limits.

So go ahead, listen to Embodied every Friday wherever you get your podcasts.

Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm Sam Fregoso Egan won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for her novel A Visit

from the Goon Squad. If you haven't read it, it contains 13 distinct but interconnected

stories which are tied together like a Robert Altman film.

Her latest is a kind of sibling novel to that book called The Candy House.

It's now available to your unconscious.

In the novel, this new fangled technology

allows one to access every memory they've ever had,

with the potential of gaining access to the memories of others.

As you'll hear, Egan and I unpacked this concept early on in our talk.

But we also expand the conversation with Egan's own memories, oscillating between her work on the page and her life outside of it.

As she says in this episode,

chronology is not an organizing principle of this new book.

And so, in keeping with the spirit of her writing, neither is this podcast.

Instead, we unpack her relationship to time,

to her younger self, to her early work,

and to her late brother, Graham,

for whom I must offer a warning.

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