Episode 477: Tara Westover

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Tara Westover is the author of Educated. “I used to be so fearful. ... I was afraid of losing my family. Then, after I had lost them, I was afraid that I made the wrong decision. Then I wrote the book and I was afraid that was the wrong decision. Everything made me frightened back then, and I just—I don't have that feeling now.” Show notes: @tarawestover tarawestover.com 00:00 Educated (Random House • 2018) 09:00 "I Am Not Proof of the American Dream" (New York Times • Feb 2022) 21:00 A Visit from the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan • Knopf • 2011) 35:00 Nobel Lecture (Kazuo Ishiguro • 2017) 36:00 The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel Van Der Kolk • Penguin • 2015) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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