Author Tom Perrotta on The Leftovers and Lord of the Rings

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2014

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Tom Perrotta talks about his novel and new HBO show The Leftovers, why his nickname in high school was Frodo and what he learned from a summer working as a garbage collector. Plus a nerd confession about a Tinder match gone awry because of Game of Thrones.

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0:12.6	slash events.
0:14.6	I never missed a single meeting and I volunteer for every committee
0:18.4	as long as I could lead it.
0:20.9	She inspires me in ways that Linda never has. She even wants to read my novel.
0:27.0	But you haven't written your novel? That's the whole point.
0:30.0	I'm Greta Johnson. I'm Tricia Bobita and from W be easy in Chicago this is
0:35.0	Nurdette. This week on the show author Tom Perada. He is the beautiful brains
0:39.1	behind the HBO series The Leftovers. It's time again for the world to mourn the departed.
0:44.0	Disappearance of 2% of the world's population.
0:48.0	None of them are coming back.
0:50.0	It's an agnostic take on what might happen
0:52.0	if a whole lot of us suddenly disappeared.
0:55.0	We talked to Tom about his nerdy youth.
0:57.0	My nickname in high school was Frodo.
0:59.0	Then a nerd confession from our former intern Claire.
1:02.0	He said that he too enjoyed Game of Thrones. from our
1:03.7	former intern Claire. He said that he too enjoyed Game of Thrones, which I thought is a sign that I
1:06.2	should tell him everything I felt about the show. It's more of a cautionary tale
1:10.3	than a confession, but it's amazing. That's coming up on this week's Nurdette.
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