WBEZ 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, 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 Chicago Humanities.org.

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.

From WBEZ Chicago, I'm Greta Johnson,

and this is the Nerdette Book Club.

It's just like a regular book club, except you don't have to share your snacks. It is February, and our selection this month

is Come and Get It by Kylie Reid. It is about Millie, an R.A. at the University of Arkansas,

Agatha, a teacher at the school who's writing a book about young people and money, and Kennedy, Tyler,

and Peyton, three girls who share a dorm room next to Millie. This is your spoiler warning.

If you do not want to know what happens in this book and you haven't read it, you should go back

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