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Welcome to GabBest Reads for the Month of February.

I'm Emily Bazlon, one of the hosts of Slate's political GabBest.

I am really excited to be here today with a wonderful novelist, Rebecca Mackay.

Hi, Rebecca.

Hi.

So glad that you were joining us for this book, which I think is going to be a big splash,

and I had such a good time reading.

So your book, your new book, is called, I Have Some Questions for You.

And we are going to talk about that in just a minute.

I want to briefly mention that you have written several previous novels, including The Great

Believers, which is just a wonderful book, and everybody should go read that book alongside.

I have some questions for you.

It's really just such a treasured, a read of mine on my bookshelf.

And you're also the artistic director of StoryStudio Chicago, which is a very cool sounding,

writer, training sort of project, right?

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