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Wonder Woman is an archetype, what she represents.

It is a woman who is not a victim

and will not be a victim.

I'm Greta Johnson.

I'm Trisha Bobita.

And from W.B. Easy in Chicago, this is Nerd Act.

This week on the show, author Lev Grossman.

I wonder if I succeeded too well.

She's like a nine-year-old nerd flashed off.

It's kind of amazing.

And we get to know Wonder Woman with a comic historian.

There's a lot of bondage, a lot of sexual stuff between the lines that critics of the book

noticed and brought to D.C.'s attention.

And Mearson said, well, I'm not going to change it. And they decided to let him do it because it was selling like crazy. And that gave him a certain amount of power over the book. All that plus your nerd confessions on this week's nerdette. Lev Grossman's new book, The Magicians Land, is the third book in his The Magicians series. The books are sort of like Harry Potter for grownups, even though Harry Potter is also for

grownups.

Lev also writes about books and tech for time.

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