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Sign up now to listen at slate.com slash mood. Hello and welcome back to Big Mood Little Mood.

I am your host, Danny M. Lavery, and with me in the studio this week is Wendy Lee,

an associate professor in the English department at New York University.

She studies and writes about the history of the novel and philosophies of emotions

and is currently working on a new book called Jane Austen and The End of Life.

Wendy, welcome to the show.

Thank you, Danny.

Welcome to your own podcast.

I am so looking forward to this.

We have been discussing this possibility for some time now, and I am just so, so eager to get a chance to collaborate on some emotional philosophies.

And I'm especially eager to hear a little bit about this new project that you're working on because

I confess I love this title very, very much.

Well, I am so excited to be here that I cleaned my entire apartment before talking to you

because it just felt like the right preparation. I was going to say, was it because you were

worried that I would see it? Or was it because I'm just so excited I need to put this energy into a

chore? I think it weirdly was both. I felt like you were coming over and also I had to do

something with my energy. But I've also been listening to Big Mood, Little Mood. And I'm really

honored to be here. It's such an important podcast and thing you're doing. And I told Delia,

my daughter, this morning, and she said, why are you on it? You give the worst advice. And I told Delia, my daughter, this morning, and she said, why are you on it? You give the worst

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