Book Club: ‘You Never Forget Your First’

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🗓️ 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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0:34.6	Do you think we should encourage all of the book club listeners this month to listen to this podcast while in their closets also?
0:42.3	Yeah, hop into the closet, have the true radio in isolation experience.
0:54.2	From WB.E.Z Chicago, I'm Greta Johnson, and you are listening to The Nerdat Book Club. It's just like a normal book club, except we're all talking about the same book while sitting on the floors of our closets. I assume, are you sitting on the
0:58.7	floor? I am sitting on a floor. Could you hear that in my... No, but I just am and was projecting.
1:03.6	Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So I am here with Lulu Miller, whose work you've probably heard either on the
1:09.3	NPR show Invisibilia or on
1:11.0	Radio Lab or maybe This American Life. She also just happened to write an amazing book that just
1:17.1	came out recently. It's called Why Fish Don't Exist. Lulu, hey. Hello. The long time nerd app fan,
1:24.4	you left out of my biography. But seriously, man. That's very kind of you to say.
1:29.6	You got in this space early and gave us a place to like for our hearts to fill. I still think about
1:36.7	my favorite, I think is the Caitlin Moran interview. Anyway, but that one like quietly changed my life
1:41.8	where she was like, pop culture changes things faster than politics anyway
1:47.3	anyway so very happy to be here on the floor like a mile away for so close but so far so close and yet so
1:53.8	far at least we're both on the floor I like that um I do want to say quickly um sadly Sarah Vowell
1:58.6	who we had announced as a third panelist isn't going to be able to be with us after all.
2:03.1	She is fine, but we are going to be hearing from some of you, which I'm really excited about.
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