The Hi there. We're back this week. I'm in studio again. It's kind of weird because we do so many of these things with our earphones on. I'm looking

at my guest right now. I feel my ears, my little ear, their little ears free in the air,

and that's lovely. My guest this week is Catherine Schultz. She's a staff writer at the New Yorker

where she won the National Magazine Award and Pulitzer Prize, just those two, for the really big one about a future earthquake that will wreak havoc on the Pacific Northwest.

She's the author of two books, Being Wrong, Adventures in the Margin of Error, and Lost and Found, a memoir.

Well, let's leave it at a memoir, and we can talk about it. But it's found a memoir, well, let's leave it as a memoir and we can talk about it.

But it's really a memoir that tackles two of the hugest human questions, death and love, loss and discovery,

and does so in a way because simply the serendipity, if you want to call

it that, of your life brought those two things together like an asteroid in the Earth in a way,

well, that's really not the right analogy. And by the way, the great thing about this book

is its analogies. There are some gorgeous little moments of recognition,

which it really reads like a writer's book, and I admired it, you know, professionally as much

as anything, for its ability to write. I tried doing this thing myself a long time ago,

and I'm going to try and do it again,

if I actually ever get around to starting the book I have a contract for. But I recognize a master

at work when I see it, and that is what this book is, lost and found. Catherine's so great to see you.

It's so strange also to have just read, you know, this incredibly personal thing and then meet you.

It's just the thing about authors is that, you know, you don't expect to suddenly have them in front of you.

You have an idea of them in your head and you've been listening to their stories.

But welcome to the dishcast.

Thank you so much. It's

delightful to be here. Tell me about your father, because that, he, he was the big loss. And it's,

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