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Music Hello and welcome back to another episode of Big Mood, Little Mood with Danny Lavery.

With me in the studio this week is Kat Chow, a reporter and author of The Memoir Seeing Ghosts,

forthcoming from Grand Central Publishing on August 24, 2021.

Kat, welcome.

Thank you so much for being here.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited. I'm really excited to you, not least because I think I just realized as I was reading your bio,

I feel as though my last five or six guests have all just either published a memoir or are about

to come out with one. And I sort of like the idea that this is just like the summer of I talk with memoirists.

Yeah, it's hot memoir summer. I mean, that doesn't really have a good ring to it, but maybe

that's what it is now. I feel like I was so close to coming up with something about like memoir and

fall. And if I'm honest, I wasn't close at all. I was nowhere near making something work

that was autumnal. This is just one of those phases where lots of people get to write books about

themselves. And I think that's great. Yeah, I think that, you know, after a pandemic, there's

just a lot of interest. Well, not after. We're still in this pandemic. Let me not misspeak on that, but there's just a lot of interest. Well, not after. We're still in this pandemic. Let me not speak on that, but there's just a lot of room for deep introspection and maybe more time to write. I don't know. Depends on who you are. I just also think it's like a nice, it's a nice little update. It's like, my life so far. Oh, thank you. It's all written down. Now I can just take a look at it and see what you have to think about it. I am a big fan of it. I support it. And I'm really, really looking forward to talking to you a little bit more about your book later on in our conversation. Although before that, I'm very excited to try to get to advise some people who, I think the theme of today's

questions are something to do with what sort of attachment am I in the middle of?

Like, am I in a relationship that exists and needs to end?

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