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Nerdette

Kelly Link’s uncanny novel is “a love letter to romance”

Nerdette

WBEZ

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4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Sometimes you're just need a quick overview of the news.

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Meantime it was chaos today at the Chicago City Council.

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Chicago cop with a controversial past is running for judge.

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so you know what's up in your neighborhood and across town.

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slash rundown.

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From W.B. E. Z. Chicago, this is Nurdette. I'm Greta Johnson. We did it. We made it to another weekend. Coming up, the

0:40.4

magical Kelly Link is going to tell us about her deeply strange and sweet new novel,

0:45.8

the book of love.

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I don't think of this book as a romance, but I do think of it as lot of letter to Romans.

0:53.0

But first, let's sit back and relax with two excellent humans with us this week is Niala Boodoo.

0:58.0

She's the host and editor of the Axios Podcast, One Big Thing.

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Niala, welcome back.

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Always the pleasure to be here. Also here is the

1:05.6

subject of the upcoming documentary Your Fat Friend and co-host of

1:08.7

maintenance phase Aubrey Gordon. Aubrey hello. Thank you so much for having me back. Okay, so I want to talk about an article that came out this week from The cut. I thought this one was so interesting. The headline is The Return Grift is over and it's all about how it's getting harder and harder to buy a bunch of stuff online and then return it.

1:27.1

There's an example in the story of someone who ordered like $200 worth of stuff from Urban Outfitters and ended up returning most of it and then like tried to buy

1:35.0

something from them a couple months later and found out that she was banned from

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shopping there. The story mentions a number of different brands including Asos

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