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 WB.EZ Chicago, I'm Greta Johnson, and this is The Nerdette Book Club.

Our selection this month is

Amor Toll's new short story collection table for two. And we are doing things a little different

this month because we had the great pleasure of doing a live event with Amor last month. And there

was so much good stuff that we want to play more of that interview in today's episode.

Before we jump in, though, I do want to make sure that you all know that this is our

penultimate episode, our second to last episode as a production at WBEZ.

We are looking for a new home for the show, but until we figure that out, we will have

one more

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