I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still

watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,

soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,

Stories Without End from WBEZ Chicago. Join me as I share how the genre

began, their social impact, and why these stories endure. Listen wherever you get your podcast.

WB.EZ is supported by Chicago Humanities, presenting its spring festival on April 27th in Lakeview

with historians Heather Cox Richardson and Timothy Snyder,

Jonathan Blitzer on Immigration,

University of Chicago Professor Agnes Collard on Socrates,

and documentaries Unblocked Englewood by Chicago's Tanika Lewis Johnson,

and Beyond Closure on the 2013 Chicago Public School closures.

Tickets and more conversations on arts, culture, and current affairs at

chicagohumanities.org.

From WBEZ Chicago, I'm Greta Johnson, and this is the Nerdat Book Club.

It's just like a regular book club, except sometimes the author stops by. I'm Greta Johnson, and this is the Nerd Out Book Club. It's just like a regular

book club, except sometimes the author stops by. I am so excited to tell you about our September

pick. It is Angie Kim's second novel, Happiness Falls, which is by far one of my favorite books

from the year. It takes place during the social distancing days of the pandemic, but it is not

a quote unquote COVID novel. Instead, the fact that everyone is stuck at home is kind of just the

perfect equation for propelling the action of the story. It is told from the point of view of Mia,

who's home from college during lockdown, back under the same roof with her twin brother John

and their younger brother Eugene, who has autism and is nonverbal. And one day, Eugene comes home early

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