Good to see you again, bookcasers, Kate and Charlie, the bookcase with Kate and Charlie,

as we insinuate ourselves once again into your living room, your car radio, your workout, your

Peloton.

I don't know where you hear us, but we are always grateful that you do.

Maybe you're just picking us up in the fillings of your teeth.

Like, who knows how you're receiving the bookcase today?

But any way that you're listening to us, we welcome you.

I don't know of anybody who's told us that they

get us on their electric razor or on their toothbrush. But who knows? You know, wherever you can get it,

we're happy to have you have you listening in. If you do get it that way, we may or may not

look forward to your letters about that. At any rate, if I was responsible for last week's book about reality TV,

the nonfiction book, Q, The Sun, I feel like my father is responsible for this week's book.

He read it months ago. I only read it relatively recently, but he read it months ago,

and he's been so excited about it ever since. I'm going to let him do the initial intro.

Well, we were very

fortunate that the publisher sent it to us a couple of months ago, and it's written by Jody Picoult,

who has written more than 30 novels, a well-known novelist. I have many times enjoyed her books,

and so getting a new one excited me, and I loved the pitch for the book on the back. And it's about this. The name of the book,

as I say, by any other name. That's the name of the book. And the principal protagonist in it is a real

character. Amelia Bassano, her name was, she lived around 1600, around Shakespeare's time.

And Jody is wading into the argument, which has existed for years, around Shakespeare's time. And Jody is wading in to the argument which has existed

for years that Shakespeare couldn't have written all of his plays by himself, A, that he just wasn't

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