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Hello, Hannah here with another new podcast.

Loads more good stuff coming up later this week,

just like there was loads of good stuff last week.

And the week before, what can I say?

We like making good stuff. If you want to make sure you

don't miss any of it, all you have to do is follow us wherever it is, you get your podcasts.

So, on to today's interview in which I am talking to New York-based journalist and first-time

novelist Natalie Adler. Her book, Waiting on a Friend, is out today

and is set in New York in the early days of the AIDS crisis.

Interesting, right?

I chat to Natalie about what inspired her to write it,

The Lost Generation, Old, Affordable New York, and a lot more.

In fact, about halfway through, we got distracted and went off on one about Bruce Springsteen,

abortion rights in the US, and that absolute gem of a film Pride.

However, you will have to be a member of the Standard Issue supporters club to hear that bit.

So if you're not, get yourself over to Patreon to find out more.

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