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Thank you. description. Thanks and happy listening. Hello, this is Let's talk about Mitz baby, and I am your host, Live here with another amazing conversation episode.

Today's episode is with Emily Hauser, who is sort of everything in the classical world.

You may know her name from a number of novels from a few years back before the big craze, I would say.

But also she has some recent and upcoming nonfiction work and wow this book that we're talking about today slash just this conversation in general blew my mind wide open you can look forward

to many more conversations with Emily because we had such an incredible time

and oh my God this episode. And honestly, I couldn't think of a better title for the episode than

the book itself. So just, oh, enjoy. Enjoy.

Conversations, How Women Became Poets.

Gender History in Greek Literature with Emily Hauser. So you said a couple things off, Mike, that will lead me directly into how I'm so thrilled to have you here, which is talking about writing academically versus we didn't actually talk about it, but I'm going to bring it up the fiction writing.

Because I did not know that you were an academic.

I only had your fiction books on my shelf.

And then so when Michaela, like, told me about this, this book, how women became poets,

I, Michaela suggested this.

And I was like, oh, great.

She was like, can we get it for the show?

And I was like, yeah, we're both getting copies.

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