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Hello, this is Hannah Rosen from Double X. Welcome to the Double X Audio Book Club. I'm here today with Emily Bazelon, who's my fellow editor at Double X and Margaret Talbot, our very good friend and podcast regular from The New Yorker.

Today the book we're going to discuss is Lori Moore's A Gate at the Stairs.

And if you haven't heard of the book, it means you haven't read a newspaper or magazine in the last week

because it's been unbelievable how much coverage this book has gotten for an American novel.

It's not the usual.

And I think that has to do with Lori Moore being incredibly beloved as a writer and also accessible because much of what she's famous for is her short stories.

This is also the first thing she's written in 11 years, the first novel

she's written in 15 years, which a lot of the press mentioned. And I'm going to mention this

is a giant spoiler alert. We're going to treat this as an actual book club, meaning we are expecting

you to have read the book. There's a lot of plot machinations in this book, you know, successful or not,

and we're going to talk about all of them. So just be warned. You should read the book before you

tune in. And for anyone who hasn't yet read a gate at the stairs, this is a perfect time to mention

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