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,

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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 it is in front of a live audience at the Atheneum Theater in Chicago.

Hi, everyone. That is a very good crowd.

I am so excited for tonight's event.

Here on stage with me is the Amor Tolls.

He is the author of The Lincoln Highway and a gentleman in Moscow,

which is one of my all-time favorite books.

And it was also recently made

into a TV series on Paramount Plus. His most recent book is, as we can see right here,

Table for Two. It is a collection of six different short stories. And there is a novella,

which is based on characters from his first novel, Rules of Civility. That is all I am going to say for now, since we want to keep this as spoiler-free as possible this evening.

But I just want to let y'all know as well that we did collect questions from you in the audience ahead of time,

so I'm really excited to kind of sprinkle those through the conversation.

Amor, welcome to Nourette.

Thank you. It's going to be here.

And thank you for doing this tonight.

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