Tom Perotta on ‘Tracy Flick Can’t Win’

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Greta Johnsen

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The New York Times bestselling author reflects on his writing before and after the #MeToo movement.

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0:00.0	From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdad.
0:07.0	I'm Greta Johnson.
0:08.3	This is usually when we would tell you about this month's book club pick, but we are actually
0:13.0	taking the summer off from book club.
0:15.3	However, do not worry.
0:17.6	We still have a bunch of good bookish stuff for you, including this interview right now.
0:23.3	Today's guest is Tom Perotta.
0:25.2	He is the author of a number of novels, including The Leftovers, Mrs. Fletcher and Election.
0:31.2	His new book is a follow-up to election.
0:33.0	It's called Tracy Flick Can't Win, and it follows the tenacious and ambitious Tracy Flick,
0:38.6	whose life didn't turn out quite the way we may have expected.
0:42.2	She is the assistant principal at a New Jersey high school, and she is hoping to become
0:46.5	a principal.
0:48.4	That's where we'll leave it for now, Tom.
0:50.7	Welcome to Nerdad.
0:51.7	Oh, thanks so much for having me, Greta.
0:54.0	So your book election came out almost 25 years ago in 1998.
0:59.7	In some ways, the world obviously has changed a lot since then, but in others, it's super
1:05.7	similar.
1:06.7	Is that partly why you wanted to go back to Tracy's story?
1:09.3	Yeah, I mean, I think that I was actually really responding to the changes, maybe more
1:16.8	than the similarities.
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