You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better.

I'm author, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory O'Maro.

And I'm Bria Grant, filmmaker, and e-reader.

This week we're talking about co-writers

and interviewing authors, Maika and Maritza Muilit.

But first, I just finished a book, which is not a book I would normally read.

I'm doing a lot of research right now, so I'm going to talk a little bit about my research

book sometimes, but I read this book called The Ghost Map, The Story of London's

most terrifying epidemic, and how it changed science

cities and the modern world by Stephen Johnson. This sounds

terribly boring. I realize it is about a cholera outbreak in in London and it killed so many people

so quickly because you get cholera well first of all if you get color they're

like here have more of this water that you've been drinking which was the

thing giving them cholera or they're like don't have any water that will be

the thing that we shouldn't give you which is the only solution for

Colorado is clean water.

That's it.

And tons and tons of people died,

and they didn't know why.

And there were all these scientisty-type men

trying to figure out what was happening.

And when they were like, one one was like it's the bad

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