I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still

watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,

soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,

Stories Without End from WB EZ Chicago.

Join me as I share how the genre began, their social impact, and why these stories endure.

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From WBEZ Chicago, I'm Greta Johnson, and this is the Nerdat Book Club.

It's just like a regular book club, except you don't have to leave your house or read the book in time or really participate

at all. This month's book is a moody Irish murder mystery called The Searcher. It's by Tana

French, and it's a fish out of water story about a retired American detective or police officer who moves to rural Western Ireland and can't shrug off his law enforcement past.

If you haven't read the book yet and you do not want spoilers, you should listen to my interview with Tana French, which is already in the feed and it is totally spoiler free.

If you haven't read the book and you want to know everything that happened, you are in the

right place.

Also, obviously, it would be cool.

If you have read the book, our panel this month is a pretty great one.

We have Sarah Vowel, who you might know from her great historical books or essay collections

or contributions to this American life or even as the voice of Violet

in the Incredibles Pixar movies. Sarah, hey.

Hello.

So I know you have some spoiler concerns and we're going to get to them. But first,

I would like to introduce our second panelist comedian Maeve Higgins, who wrote a memoir called

Maeve in America. She is often funnier than Peter Seigle on

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