Hey, listeners, Rebecca here, and I have a recommendation to share with you today.

Origin Stories is a fantastic new podcast hosted by veteran journalist Matt Share about how the

creative works you love got made. On each episode, Matt speaks with the creator behind a book,

movie, TV series, podcast, documentary, magazine article, you name it, about how they do their

work. And it gets deep.

Y'all know we believe in doing the homework here at Zero to Well Red, and Matt has obviously

always read the book or seen the film or listened to the show, whatever he is talking about.

That is much rarer than it should be in this day of podcast interviews. And I really appreciate it. He knows

what he is talking about when he sits down with these folks. The conversations are intimate,

interesting, they're always insightful. And we're excited to share his interview with Stephanie Fu

about her stunning memoir of What My Bones Know with you today. Listen, enjoy, then head on over to origin stories and

subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. In front-loading this and in making the diagnosis

front and center, you're kind of doing a version structurally or storytelling of what a lot of

TV shows do where you flash forward to something that we're going to be building

towards and then you rewind and move forward. There's an event that happens. You get a fragmentary

glimpse of it and then you rewind and let people get to that point. Why it works so well here

is that you are almost telling people how it all fits

together. And the reason why we all do it from White Lotus to my book is to set up stakes,

because nobody's going to be invested in the story unless you have stakes. And I didn't,

another thing was that I've read so many trauma memoirs where it feels kind of trauma-pourney.

It's just horrible thing after horrible thing happening.

And I wanted to make it clear that this was different.

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