Hello everyone and welcome to talk nerdy It's Monday October 10th and I'm your host

Kara Santa Maria. I'm really excited about this week's guest but before we join

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All right, this week, I am pleased to have a chat, a remote chat,

with an incredible writer named Maria Conocova.

She's the author of the new book, The Confidence Game.

And her previous book, Mastermind

How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes,

was a New York Times bestseller, won a bunch of awards,

it's been translated into 18 languages. Wow, that's really impressive. She's also written for pretty much every outlet you've ever read.

The New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times,

slate, Pacific Standard, the Boston Globe,

Scientific American, Scientific American Mind, and Wired.

Her real focus is the intersection of psychology and literature, which is a very cool specialty.

So without any further ado, here she is Maria Conakova.

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