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I'm Jesse Thorne, live on tape from My House in Los Angeles.

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I'm Jesse Thorne.

My guest on the program, Nick Hornby, is an acclaimed novelist whose many books include,

we're talking about high fidelity.

We're looking at about a boy.

We're talking about a slam, about a skateboarding team.

We're talking about a long way down, about a group of people who are committing suicide.

We're talking about, most recently, the book, Juliet Naked, which follows three characters.

An aging singer-songwriter who's willfully excluded himself from the music business for 20 years or so.

His biggest fan and the leader of his internet fan community and his biggest fan's wife,

who's a little bit perplexed by the whole thing.

He's also the screenwriter behind the just-released film and education, which follows a teenage girl in the early 1960s in England,

as she dates a much older and apparently much more sophisticated gentleman.

Nick Hornby, it's great to have you back on the Sound of Young America.

It's lovely to be here. You've been reading up on me.

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