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i'm sitting here in los angeles in a chair fourth of july weekend i hope you enjoyed your

holiday my guest today is julia fiero Cutting Teeth, is now available from

St. Martin's Press. I should add that Julia is also the founder of the Sackett Street

Writers Workshop over there across the country in Brooklyn, New York. She's a fixture in the New York

City literary community, and it's a great pleasure

to have her here. She and I are going to be talking in just a moment. First, though, I do have some mail.

I want to read it to you. This one comes from a listener named Jim, who writes, Dear Brad, I just

went premium. It feels great. I devour the TNB Book Club selection every month and always listen to the podcast. I was listening

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a better person. I feel like I'm supporting the arts. Tell everyone. It'll make their day. Keep it up. Cheers. Jim. So I want to let you guys know that I did not write that myself. That's an actual letter from a very kind listener. Thank you, Jim. I appreciate it. And I hope I can convince everybody else to follow Jim's lead, sign up for premium. It's two bucks a month. That's all. And you can stream every single episode, all 300 of them, almost. Or, you know, if that's too much, there are actually other pricing plans. I offer three different pricing plans for premium. You can do two bucks a month or you can do

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