Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back.

Mom!

Up the stairs for something.

Ugh, back down, no idea what I went up for.

Mom, what's for dinner?

Chop, sizzle, done.

Hello, fresh, can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier.

So its phones down, forks up.

Hello Fresh. Bring back dinner time.

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Welcome to the Quillette podcast. I'm your host, Iona Italia. In this week's edition of the podcast,

I talk to writer, journalist, and cultural commentator Phoebe Maltz Bovi. Phoebe is the co-host of two podcasts. The Canadian Jewish

News podcast, Bonjour Hi, with Rabbi Avi Feingold, and Feminine Chaos with Cat Rosenfield.

She is the author of The Perils of Privilege, Why Injustice Can't Be Solved by Accusing Others of

Advantage, 2017.

Today, we'll be discussing her new book, The Last Straight Woman, Undesiring Men,

forthcoming on the 19th of May. Let's start here.

When did you first get the idea for this book and why? What was the germ of your thought about it?

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