Who is Hillary without Bill?

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🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Novelist Curtis Sittenfeld imagines another life for Hillary Rodham –– one without Bill Clinton. And, what we’re missing when we’re missing human touch.

Some readers are calling Curtis Sittenfeld’s new book a work of ‘Pantsuit Nation fanfiction.’ She doesn’t mind at all.

Skin-to-skin contact is often suggested for newborns. But we all need touch.

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0:38.4	Hey.
0:38.9	This is Post Reports.
0:40.4	I'm Martine Powers.
0:44.1	It's Friday, May 22nd.
0:48.8	Today, anomalous imagines Hillary Rodham's life without Bill Clinton.
0:54.3	And the power of touch.
1:01.7	I heard someone describe this book as
1:04.0	Pantseutian fanfiction.
1:08.2	How accurate do you think that is?
1:10.2	I'm delighted by that description, so yeah, I think that that is pretty accurate.
1:16.0	So I am Curtis Sittenfeld, and I just wrote a novel called Rodham.
1:24.0	And it's a sort of reimagining of the life of Hillary Rodham if she had not married Bill Clinton back in the 70s.
1:36.2	Curtis Sittenfeld is the best-selling author of several novels including Prepp and eligible and American wife,
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