Nerdette Book Club: Xochitl Gonzalez on ‘Olga Dies Dreaming’

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Greta Johnsen

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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We are kicking off 2022 with Xochitl Gonzalez’s dazzling debut novel about political scandal, family bonds, gentrification and a whole lot more. Xochitl joins us for a spoiler-free chat about how her former career as a wedding planner inspired her to write this story. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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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.
0:21.2	From WBEZ Chicago, I'm Greta Johnson and this is the Nerd At Book Club.
0:25.7	It's just like a regular book club, except sometimes the author stops by.
0:29.2	It is a whole new year, and our book selection for January is Olga Dye's Dreaming by Sochil
0:34.0	Gonzalez.
0:35.0	It's about Olga, a wedding planner in Brooklyn.
0:37.6	She's super successful, she is great at dealing with super-entitled rich people, but she's
0:42.4	not really sure how she ended up doing what she's doing.
0:46.2	This book kind of has everything, it's got rich people drama and political scandal and
0:50.8	corrupt business schemes, and a mom on the run who's still somehow super naggy and a super
0:56.5	douchey white guy named Dick.
0:58.6	Sochil is here to tell us all about it.
1:00.4	Sochil, welcome to Nerd At.
1:02.0	Thank you so much, and I sort of love that summary.
1:05.2	I was like, I was like, I wasted a year with a bad elevator pitch and I could have been
1:10.3	saying that.
1:11.3	I don't know, I mean, I just thought it was like kind of the perfect balance of like
1:17.4	salacious but still substantive, you know what I mean?
1:20.2	Yeah, no, totally.
1:21.2	I appreciate it.
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