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Bianca Bosker is the author of Get the Picture, a mind-bending journey among the inspired artists and

obsessive art fiends who taught me how to see. Bianca is the New York Times best-selling author

of Cork Dork, and now more

recently get the picture. A contributing writer at The Atlantic, she has also written for publications

such as The New Yorker, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Her work has been

recognized with awards from the New York Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists,

and more, and has been included in the Best American Travel Writing.

Welcome, Bianca. Thank you so much for coming on. Momsdon have time to read books to discuss

get the picture, a mind-bending journey among the inspired artists and obsessive art fiends who taught me how to see. Congratulations.

Thank you. Thanks so much for having me. It's so nice to speak with you. It pleasure. And I'm so excited that we got to connect at the LA Times Festival of Books and made this happen. Awesome. They really put the festival in book festival, I would say, right? I mean, the food, the music. It just felt so celebratory. I loved it. I didn't want it to end. Yeah. I mean, I was a little tired. I have to be honest. But it was great. Well, your book is fabulous. I'm not surprised. It became an instant New York Times bestseller. Congratulations, though. That must have felt amazing, right? Thank you. Yeah. So, so exciting. It's like, you know, you just, I mean, the book was five years in the making. And, you know, I think every author obviously wants their book to find as many readers as possible. And so it was a dream come true.

It's amazing. Well, all the experiences that you write about and all the time spent, I mean, it's obvious. It's like people have to give you a hats off to spending your life, doing all these things, and then writing about it at the same time so the rest of us don't have to do it. Isn't that the thing? It's like we get to learn through you and live vicariously, and yet we don't have, we're not like in Miami or at an arc, you know, all the things that you do. So congratulations. It's exciting.

So tell listeners more about the book.

Yeah.

So I would say that my like short elevator pitch, which I have honed at dinner table parties,

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