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This Is Uncomfortable

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This Is Uncomfortable

Marketplace

News, Business

4.83.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Hey y’all! We’re working on a new season coming at you this August, but over the summer we’re trying something new: The Uncomfortable Book Club! Every other week our newsletter will showcase a book that made us think differently about life and how money messes with it. All the details are in this episode, and when you sign up before June 15 at Marketplace.org/bookclub, you’ll be entered to win some merch from the show. Happy reading!

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0:00.0

Hey everyone it's it's

0:02.4

it's itima so the team and I are hard at work on a new season of this is

0:05.9

uncomfortable our 10th season that's coming out in August but before then we're

0:11.0

trying out something new that we're really excited about.

0:13.7

All summer, we're digging into more stories about life and how money messes with it

0:18.1

with our first ever uncomfortable book club. Every other week, our newsletter will showcase a different book

0:24.2

that'll make you rethink your relationship to things like money, class, and work

0:28.2

and will include an exclusive author interview. Sign up at Marketplace.org

0:33.8

slash Book Club to get our highly curated, super uncomfortable selection

0:38.1

straight to your inbox. It's kind of like the summer reading challenges your

0:41.7

library would do, except for we're not throwing

0:44.0

a pizza party, but we do have prizes.

0:46.6

And no matter what genre you like to read, we have a book for everyone to love.

0:50.7

We've got page turning sci-fi and Naomi Alderman's The Future, smart money tips from

0:55.8

Finance for the People by Paco de Lillon. We dig into Hillary Likter's absurd

1:00.4

workplace comedy temporary. We look back to the classic A Passage to India

1:05.3

by EM Forster. We explore food inequality and how the other half eats by

1:10.1

Priya Fielding Singh and we delve into all this could be different, a queer immigrant

1:15.0

coming of age story from Sarah Thunghum Matthews.

1:18.6

We'll go deep with all those authors in our newsletter and pull some curated episodes from our back catalog to go with each conversation.

1:25.6

And as always, we end each newsletter with great recommendations on what our team is watching,

1:30.1

reading, cooking, and listening to. So join our summer book club for free at marketplace.org

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