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 you're listening to The Nerdat Book Club. It's just like normal book club, except you don't have to leave your house, which has become even more of a thing

than it was, what, like even a month ago, right? I am here with Heather Haverleski who writes the

Ask Polly Advice column for New York Magazine. Her memoir is also literally called disaster preparedness. Hey, Heather. Hi, Greta.

So how are your preparations? I'm so prepared. I have not been that prepared. I've been,

I was a little bit prepared. I was prepared to feel dread. You have a lot of cheez-its, I hear, right?

I have a great surfeit of cheez-its, yes, a surplus. And I also have some soups, canned soups,

and a great deal of ramen. I talked to a friend of mine who had her brother-in-law literally

had a palette of ramen in mid-March. Whoa. Do you know how much that is? That's like

three by three square foot. Yeah. Tall, like as big as a human of ramen. Wow. I think he's probably a little bit tired of ramen now, but still, it's impressive. Okay. So we might continue to talk about snacks, but mostly we are here to talk about the Glass Hotel.

It's me and Heather this time.

But guess what?

We're also going to hear from a whole bunch of you.

I just finished reading The Glass Hotel.

And it is what a story.

The thing that's so interesting to me about this book right now, and especially because of the pandemic we're in,

is that in the book, as events are unfolding, we get this really interesting glimpse into

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