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We have Vanessa Diaz, our managing editor. She's going to be here with us more regularly because y'all have really enjoyed our deep dives into literary history. We've talked about Edgar Allan Poe. We have talked about Agatha Christie. I don't know what we're

talking about today, but Vanessa is going to take us on a journey. Vanessa, welcome back. Thank you. It's been really great to do this. I'm glad we're getting some nice responses to me just coming on and mean, like, hi, can I join the party? I mean, if we know anything about the book nerds, It's that they like a deep dive.

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We like a rabbit hole and we like some literary gossip. I think it's underrated. I agree. Cool. I can't wait to hit y'all with our next topic, which I don't know how much y'all, well, I know how you, I guess, because I listen to the show, but like how much you preview the like stuff you're going to talk about on zero to well read but because i'm going to be

kool-aid manning into an episode of that in the nearest future, that inspired today's topic tangentially, which is to talk about magical realism, just because I still see so much confusion about what that is, what it isn't, who gets the call their work, magical realism, how it came to be, folks that don't know it was a whole literary movement. So we're going to talk about that today. Exciting. Cool. So I like to always do this at the top of the shows. But what is, well, you can answer one of two questions because we're obviously going to do a definition of magical realism. But what do you know about magical realism or even just like the history

of Latin American literature, which is obviously a huge question, but you know, answer how you will.

I'm going to cede this to Jeff and throw him on the you used to teach literary classes.

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