Book Club: ‘You Never Forget Your First’

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Are you ready for a fresh look at George Washington and his many foul diseases? You've come to the right place!

Nerdette host Greta Johnsen joins Lulu Miller, co-creator of NPR's Invisibilia podcast and author of Why Fish Don't Exist, to break down Alexis Coe’s new biography of George Washington, You Never Forget Your First. We also eat hoecakes and consider bloodletting.

Plus, get ready for next month’s book club pick: The City We Became, a new fantasy novel by Hugo Award-winning author N.K. Jemisin.

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0:12.6	slash events.
0:14.6	Do you think we should encourage all of the book club
0:17.2	listeners this month to listen to this podcast
0:19.8	while in their closets also?
0:22.7	Yeah, up into the closet have the true radio
0:25.6	in isolation experience.
0:27.8	From W.B.
0:32.2	E. Chicago, I'm Greta Johnson, and you are listening to The
0:35.2	Nerd at Book Club. It's just like a normal book club, except we're all talking
0:38.8	about the same book while sitting on the floors of our closets. I assume are you sitting on the floor?
0:43.4	I am sitting on the floor. Could you hear that in my... No, but I just am and was projecting.
0:48.0	Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I am here with Lulu Miller whose work you've probably heard either on the NPR show
0:54.3	Invisibility or on Radio Lab or maybe this American life.
0:57.6	She also just happened to write an amazing book that just came out recently. It's called Why Fish Don't exist.
1:04.6	Lulu, hey! Hello, the long time nerdette fan you left out of my biography.
1:10.6	But seriously man
1:12.7	Man's very kind of you to say you got in this space early and gave us a place to like for our hearts to fill
1:19.2	I still think about my favorite I think is the Caitlin Moran
1:23.2	Anyway, but that one like quietly changed my life where she was like pop culture
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