Kitty Obstruction
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Prudence is joined this week by Shruti Swamy, author of the short story collection A House Is a Body, and the recipient of two O. Henry awards. She lives in San Francisco.
Prudie and Swamy tackle letters about how to handle a roommate who insists on interrupting your dates by bringing her cat out to play with you, what to do about being excluded from friend’s social events because you’re single, how to decline a friend’s wedding due to pandemic concerns and not offend them, should you see the same therapist as your crush, what actions to take with a close friend who only talks about themselves.
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| 0:30.6 | Thank you Hello and welcome back to the Dear Prudence Show. |
| 0:44.6 | Once again, and as always, I am your host, Dear Prudence, also known as Daniel M. Lavery. |
| 0:49.1 | With me in the studio this week is Shruti Swami, the author of the short story collection, |
| 0:53.1 | A House is a Body, and the recipient of two O'Henry Awards. She lives in San Francisco. |
| 0:58.5 | Shruti, welcome to the show. Thank you, Danny. I'm so happy to be here. I'm so glad that you're here, and I was trying to fight this one, but I just can't. I can't not fight it. Do you ever feel tempted to take your two, Oh, Henry Awards and have them offer one another gifts that they can no longer receive because they sold the thing that would have enabled them to get the gift? |
| 1:23.3 | Well, no. If only they were physical, you know, they're not even, they don't exist in a physical form except for the books themselves. |
| 1:32.5 | Oh, I thought maybe there was like a plaque or something. I know. It would be really nice if they're bestowed upon me in that fashion. But they're just, they're more of a ephemeral and abstract feeling. It's more of a feeling than a award. I mean, that feels |
| 1:46.3 | apropos, too. I just, there's a handful of little phrases that I just say constantly, |
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