This week, Jules and I sit down and discuss the shootings in America,

boys and men, remote work, and independent politics. All of that this week on Forward.

Welcome back. It's Andrew and Jules. You thought that I had disappeared, but I am here.

Jules and I were just having a conversation about reading books. I'm developing quite a book

collection. I don't know if you all have noticed, but I interview authors a lot and I buy their books

and I buy a hard copy of the book. So it turns out that boys and girls read fiction. But then after

you get to adulthood, apparently men consume much less fiction. We kind of switch to nonfiction.

Yeah. Whereas women still love you read both fiction and nonfiction. So I guess this means

that women have broader reading tastes. But I was reflecting on the fact that when I was young,

I used to read science fiction and fantasy novels like Candy. I just would inhale them.

And then now I read tons and tons of nonfiction. So I was just talking to Zach. Who's also here?

We could get Zach in as a third. A third. Remember the tripod on Zach was like, yeah,

that track that's his experience too. So I don't know what that says about men and women, but

apparently are reading taste diverges at a certain point. I think it's like, for example,

science fiction, yeah, everyone kind of taps into that when they're younger. It's more so. And then

men kind of tap out of that genre as they grow older. And I think it's more so like these things

are very maybe imaginative and maybe like romanticizing different things of life. And I think girls,

especially like in their adulthood, still tend to flock to that. And then guys, yeah, end up going to

like you're saying nonfiction route of kind of just hard facts and kind of lose that imaginative

and create crazy. Yeah, look at this create. Really good. These are imaginations. It's like one of

these like dystopian novels. I took a pop culture in the US class in college. And we were assigned

romance novels. They said our box of romance novels had grab one. And so I read it. And it was great.

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