Even some of my mentors who are married and those who are not,

everyone agrees that love is wonderful and everyone's ambivalent about marriage.

This is death, sex, and money.

Oh, I like money. Yeah.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

Looks like your wife's leaving you, mister.

And need to talk about more.

No, he's dead.

Mr. Pote.

Dead.

Again.

I'm on a sale.

Tiari Jones was a successful novelist after her first three books.

But her fourth book, An American Marriage, is her first

bestseller. And she learned it was going to be a bestseller before the book even came out.

She was in Las Vegas on a fellowship. Okay, I was driving my car, and I got a call, and it was a

block call. So I said, hello, and she said, hi, this is Oprah. Just like that. And so I put on my

hazard lights and I pulled over. And she said that she had read my book and that she really loved it

and she wanted to use it for her book club. And while she's talking to me, all manner of panhandlers are soliciting me for money.

They're tapping on the window. I'm shoeing them away. I'm trying to make mean faces so they'll back off.

And Oprah is just talking. And I'm saying, yes, yes, ma'am. Yes, I would love that. Yes, thank you.

With Oprah's endorsement, Tiari's novel was on the New York Times bestseller list for eight weeks after it came out in February.

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