Nerdette Book Club: 'Notes on an Execution'

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Greta Johnsen

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Our book club dives into ‘Notes on an Execution’ by Danya Kukafka and contends with our cultural obsession with crime stories.

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0:00.0	You may not know this, but with WBEZ, you can check up on the news live anytime you want,
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0:13.3	The news is on WBEZ.
0:20.8	From WBEZ Chicago, I'm Greta Johnson and this is the Nerdet Book Club.
0:25.3	It's just like a regular book club, except you extremely do not have to actually read
0:29.1	the book if you don't want to.
0:31.1	This month's pick is Danya Kukofka's Notes on an Execution, which the author calls crime
0:36.0	fiction, which I think still has some strong thriller vibes to it, which I'm sure we'll
0:40.0	get into with this month's panel.
0:42.2	If you listen to Nerdet, you already know this dynamic duo.
0:45.6	We have MJ Franklin, an editor at the New York Times Books.
0:49.1	MJ, welcome.
0:50.1	Hello, hello.
0:51.1	Thank you for having me back.
0:52.4	Thanks for coming back.
0:53.4	We also have Tracy Thomas, who hosts the Stacks podcast.
0:56.2	Tracy, welcome back.
0:57.2	Yay, thank you for having me back too.
1:00.7	Okay, so this is time for the spoiler warning.
1:03.7	If you have not read this book and you don't want spoilers, this is not the episode for
1:07.4	you.
1:08.4	Go listen to the spoiler free author chat that is in the feed.
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