Eric Puchner: “Dream State” | Oprah’s Book Club

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4.6 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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BUY THE BOOK! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/744560/dream-state-by-eric-puchner Buy at Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/dream-state/id6504841280 Listen to the Audiobook on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4x3YoAvjZDfv7zEFg4CB8N?si=547a878fa812404f In this episode of Oprah’s Book Club: Presented by Starbucks, Oprah and author Eric Puchner discuss his newest book "Dream State" - a novel New York Times bestselling author Elin Hildebrand calls “an absolute masterpiece.” Set in Montana, Oprah’s 111th book club pick is a page turner and emotional rollercoaster that spans 50 years in the lives of college friends starting in the early 1990s. As we witness this tight circle experience friendship, a love triangle, marriage, raising kids aging and death, the novel evokes powerful questions about what really matters in life. For this conversation, Eric and Oprah are joined by a live audience enjoying Matcha Lattes in a Starbucks cafe in the iconic Empire State Building. Eric talks about character development, his writing process and his thought-provoking depiction of friendship, marriage and parenting while taking questions from the audience of avid readers. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@Oprah Follow Oprah Winfrey on Social: Instagram Facebook TikTok Listen to the full podcast: Spotify Apple Podcasts #oprahsbookclub Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome Eric.
0:07.6	Thank you so much.
0:09.1	You were so stunned when I called.
0:10.7	I was incredibly stunned when you called.
0:12.5	In fact, my publicist had made me think that he was just calling to talk about something kind of boring.
0:17.9	Hello?
0:18.6	Hello. Is this Eric?
0:20.4	Yes, it is.
0:21.4	Eric, hi, it's Oprah Winfrey.
0:23.8	Oh, my God.
0:25.3	Yeah.
0:26.2	Oh, my God.
0:27.3	I teach at Johns Hopkins University, and I get terrible reception to my office,
0:31.4	so I was crouched in my car in this kind of ugly parking lot,
0:34.9	and then it was Oprah on the line.
0:36.4	It almost dropped the phone.
0:37.3	I was completely astonished.
0:38.7	Well, it's great to have you here.
0:40.3	I told you we were going to be in at Starbucks, books in conversation.
0:43.7	And you know what you said?
0:44.7	Oh, will I be a part of that?
0:49.1	That's the whole idea.
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