This is Seth Silver's.

Thank you for joining us for pant suit politics.

This is Sarah Stewart Holland.

And this is Beth Silver's.

Thank you for joining us for pant suit politics. Hello everyone. We're here with you on Friday, December 1st, a whole new month, the

official kickoff of Year End Reflection Time. As we do our work all year long, we read and watch and listen to a lot.

Sarah, I hate the word content, you know this about me, but I don't have a better word, so I'm just going to surrender and say that today

we're reflecting on the content that shaped us this year. We're going to talk about where and how we took

in news and opinion and just interesting analysis about the world, books, long reads, and outside of politics,

the cultural zeitgeisty things that gave us a lot of joy. Speaking of books that shaped us, one of mine this year was Jane Ferguson's

no ordinary assignment, which our fall book club read, and this week on our premium show,

more to say we're sharing my conversation with Jane about her career in life as a war reporter which sounds very heavy and it is

but Jane is warm and gracious and thoughtful and I think you will love this conversation.

Then on Thursday night, Elise and Beth Sean will be hosting a live book club night for premium

members on Crowdcast and we hope you've enjoyed the increased community engagement around

the book club this quarter.

We are really excited about our first book box of 2024.

We partner with Lisa of the Bookshelf, Irvington, to create a limited number of special

boxes with the books and a few little treats in them.

Sales for those boxes start for premium members.

The week after that, the week of December 11th, the boxes themselves won't be delivered

until January, but we wanted to get the sales out there for those

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