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

It's just like a regular book club, except sometimes the author stops by.

It is February and this month we are reading Gwen E. Kirby's short story collection,

Shit Cassandra Saw.

This is a glorious amalgamation of all sorts of different stories, the topics span,

centuries, and comments.

Yeah, feminism, violence, and bathroom retiling.

There are listless teenage girls and furious witches and obnoxious gentrifiers and baseball

games and lost luggage stores and lady pirates.

This book kind of has everything.

Gwen, I am so excited to talk to you.

Welcome to Nerd At.

Thank you. I'm so excited to be here.

So I cannot remember the last time I read a book with a swear word in the title.

How hard was that to make it?

You know, to my surprise, it was not hard at all.

So I, it was the title that I proposed for the collection to my agent.

And I assumed my agent would be like, no, we're not doing that.

Right.

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