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Ask Me Another

Literary Favorites

Ask Me Another

NPR

Leisure, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Why read books when you can play games about them? Join us as we revisit our favorite literary-themed games. Plus, a novel interview with author and actress Lauren Weedman. It's a real page turner!

Transcript

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MPR-NW-NYC, this is Ask Me Another.

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I'm Jonathan Colton and I'm here with your host, O'Fear Eisenberg.

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Thank you, Jonathan.

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This week we're dedicating your favorite hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia to the

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power of literature.

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That's right.

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Why read books when you can just listen to us talk about them?

0:49.4

It's much easier.

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It's kind of like an audiobook, except it's audio about books.

0:54.0

We're going to be revisiting some of our favorite games about the written word and we're going

0:57.8

to be interviewing actress and author Lauren Weedman.

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She's going to be talking about her most recent book, Miss Fortune, Fresh Perspectives

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on Having It All from Someone Who Is Not OK.

1:08.8

Jonathan, how are you?

1:10.7

On a scale of 1 to 10.

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One to 10?

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