It's the Bryan Lair show on WNIC, good morning again everyone.

With us now the amazing Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, Jill Lapor.

You know we used to have a slogan that we used on the station that said, radio for the

perpetually curious.

While reading Jill Lapor's body of work is like reading into the mind of one of the most

perpetually curious writers I could imagine, which is one of the nicest things I could

say about someone.

You can tell by the range of essays in the new collection of 46 Jill Lapor pieces when

the last 10 years, most of them from New Yorker, a few of them previously unpublished, called

the Deadline essays.

They all informed the present in some way relating to the Obama Trump, Me Too, George Floyd,

Guantanamo, pandemic, artificial intelligence, climate altering, Barbie era in American history

that we've all been living through.

But by exploring events and people from history, ranging from Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein,

to Jane Franklin, sister of Ben, who perhaps should have had a place at the table when they

wrote the Constitution because maybe we'd be better off today.

She also does some personal essay writing, including about her late parents and a dying

friend.

She has her New Yorker work, Jill Lapor hosts the podcasts, the last archive, and the

one called Elon Musk.

Again, the book is called The Deadline.

Jill always inspiring to have you on the show.

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