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Nerdette

Nerdette Book Club LIVE with Amor Towles!

Nerdette

WBEZ

Tv & Film, Self, Nerd, Books, Technology, Tv, Improvement, Culture, Wbez, Society & Culture, Pop, Nerdette, Nerds

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Nurdett is supported by the sympathizer podcast from HBO.

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Join host Philip Nguyen in conversation with the cast, crew,

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and author Viet Tan Wen,

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as they discuss the making of this historic HBO Original Limited series.

0:14.4

Stream new episodes of HBO's The Sympathizer

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Sundays exclusively on Max

0:20.1

and listen to The Sympathizer podcast wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:24.0

Think on your feet for our Fast and Curious 5K, a one-of-a-kind race hosted by W.B.

0:29.9

And the Chicago Sun Times on Saturday, July 27th at Humboldt Park.

0:34.5

More info and early bird registration at W.B.Z.org.

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slash events.

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From W be EZ Chicago, I'm Greta Johnson and this is the Nurdett Book Club.

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It's just like a regular book club except sometimes it is in front of a live audience

0:53.0

at the Athenaeam Theater in Chicago.

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Hi, everyone. That is a very good crowd. I am so excited for tonight's event here on stage with me is the Amortoles. He is the author of the Lincoln Highway and a

1:15.9

gentleman in Moscow, which is one of my all-time favorite books, and it was also

1:20.8

recently made into a TV series on Paramount Plus.

1:24.6

His most recent book is, as we can see right here,

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table for two.

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It is a collection of six different short stories.

1:32.0

And there is a noveovello which is based on

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characters from his first novel Rules of Civility. That is all I am going to say

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