Nerdette Book Club: ‘Land of Milk and Honey,’ discussed!
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Greta Johnsen
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🗓️ 28 November 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Nerdette Book Club is back to discuss our November selection, ‘Land of Milk and Honey’ by C Pam Zhang! It’s a novel about survival, privilege, and seeking pleasure at the end of the world.
Our readers this month are Aliza Abarbanel, co-founder and co-editor of ‘Cake Zine,’ an independent print publication exploring society through sweets, and co-host of the podcast ‘This is TASTE,’ and Miriam Kramer, news editor at WPLN in Nashville.
We do get into spoilers in the conversation! If you’re not ready to find out what happens yet, listen to our spoiler-free conversation with author C Pam Zhang in the feed first.
P.S. We have an exciting announcement in the credits! Listen if you want to get started on your 2024 reading list!
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Recommendations:
‘The Menu’
‘The World Without Us’ by Alan Weisman
‘How Much of These Hills Is Gold’ by C Pam Zhang
‘Gold Fame Citrus’ by Claire Vaye Watkins
‘Breasts and Eggs’ by Mieko Kawakami
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| 0:00.0 | This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events. |
| 0:05.0 | Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more. |
| 0:09.0 | Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org |
| 0:12.6 | slash events. |
| 0:13.6 | From W be easy Chicago I'm Greta Johnson and this is the Nurdat Book Club. It's just like a regular book club |
| 0:24.7 | except you don't have to share your snacks. It is November and this month's selection is |
| 0:29.2 | See Pam Jean's Land of Milk and Honey. It is a book about a chef, a secretive research |
| 0:34.3 | facility in the Alps, and seeking pleasure at the end of the world. That is all I am |
| 0:39.6 | going to say for now, but this is a spoilery conversation. |
| 0:43.5 | Here is your spoiler warning. |
| 0:45.4 | That means if you have not read the book |
| 0:47.3 | and you do not want to know what happens, |
| 0:49.9 | go back and listen to our spoiler-free author interview |
| 0:52.3 | in the feed if you have read the book or |
| 0:54.8 | you just want to know what happens welcome we are glad to have you I am very excited to introduce |
| 0:58.8 | you to this month's guests with us we have Eliza a Barbinele she is a freelance writer and editor based guests. exploring society through sweets. |
| 1:12.8 | She also co-hosts the podcast. |
| 1:14.7 | This is Taste and Interviewed Pam for the show a couple months ago. |
| 1:18.2 | Eliza, welcome. |
| 1:19.6 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:20.8 | I love another excuse to get to talk about this book because all of my friends are sick of it. |
| 1:25.0 | Well, good, that's perfect. I'm very happy that we could oblige. |
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