Book Club: ‘Such A Fun Age’
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Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Nerdette Book Club! Where we read a book a month and chat about it with a rotating group of panelists. It’s just like a normal book club except no one shames you when you don't do the reading.
This episode is all about Kiley Reid’s excellent debut novel, Such a Fun Age. It’s an incisive look at race and class in modern America, (and it also happens to be really funny.) Join Nerdette host Greta Johnsen, New York magazine advice columnist Heather Havrilesky and The Morning AMp and Making Beyoncé host Jill Hopkins.
And hey! Next month, we’re reading Anna Wiener’s Uncanny Valley, a memoir about working in the bro-heavy tech industry. Read the book and send us your thoughts by recording your voice with your smartphone, then email the audio file to nerdettepodcast@gmail.com. And tune in for the conversation on Friday, Feb. 28!
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| 0:00.0 | This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events. |
| 0:05.0 | Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more. |
| 0:09.0 | Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org slash events. |
| 0:15.0 | Did you read the book Heather? |
| 0:17.0 | Damn straight I did. |
| 0:19.0 | You're damn straight I did. |
| 0:21.0 | From W beB. E. Z. Chicago, this is Nurdett. I'm Greta Johnson and you're listening |
| 0:26.9 | to the Nurdett Book Club. It's just like a normal book club except you don't |
| 0:30.6 | have to share the amazing treats you made. I am here with Heather |
| 0:33.7 | Havrulesci who writes the Ask Poly advice column for New York magazine, hey |
| 0:37.8 | Heather. Hi! Is it true that you read this book in the last like 24 hours? Yes I did. I started it yesterday |
| 0:45.3 | afternoon. There's nothing more invigorating than reading a book with a gun |
| 0:50.9 | pointed at your head. |
| 0:52.5 | You missed that deadline feeling, huh? |
| 0:55.7 | And we are joined by Jill Hopkins host of the Morning |
| 0:58.9 | AMP on W.B. E.E. |
| 1:00.1 | 's Sister Station Vocalo. |
| 1:01.7 | She also hosted a little podcast here at W. B. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. G. E. E. Oh my goodness. All right, so we're also going to hear from some of you. We got some great |
| 1:16.6 | listener voicemails that we'll listen to later on. So we are talking about the book |
| 1:21.0 | Such a fun age. This is a debut novel by Kylie Reed. |
| 1:24.5 | It came out on December 31st. |
| 1:27.0 | It was super buzzy. |
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