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the conversations.

Like, I loved my master's program and just like advanced study in English, like so much more

than I loved my intro classes because it was just like, we're all on the same page.

We're having these deep conversations.

And I think great conversations come out of people who are working from the same shared text. There is so much to be said for really sitting with

things that are complicated or sitting with things that are deep or hard or complex within the

company of other people. Welcome to the Stats, a podcast about books and the people who read them.

I'm your host, Tracy Thomas, and today I am so excited to welcome Temby Denton

Hearst to the show.

Temby is an author and journalist whose work explores beauty, culture, and storytelling.

She's a staff writer at New York

Magazine's The Strategist and the author of the novel Homebodies, a sharp and heartfelt story

about ambition, identity, and carving out a space for yourself. She also writes one of my

absolute favorite substacks extracurricular, where she shares her thoughts on books, culture,

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