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Nerdette Book Club: More with Amor Towles, LIVE!

Nerdette

WBEZ

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

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 22 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

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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.

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

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slash events.

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From W.B. E. Z. Chicago, I'm Greta Johnson, and this is the Nurdette Book Club.

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Our selection this month is Amortol's new short story collection, Table for Two, and we are doing things a little different this month because

0:56.4

we had the great pleasure of doing a live event with Amor last month, and there was so much good stuff that we want to play more of that

1:04.6

interview in today's episode. Before we jump in though I do want to make sure that

1:09.3

y'all know that this is our penultimate episode, our second to last episode as a production at W.B. E. Z.

1:17.4

We are looking for a new home for the show, but until we figure that out, we will have one more episode coming up on Tuesday, May 28th, which is also

1:26.2

Anna's and my last day at the station.

1:29.6

I am going to save the sappy stuff for next week, but let me just say for now that we have gotten a lot of really lovely voicemails from y'all about what Nurdett means to you, and that means very, very, very, very much to me.

1:42.0

We are going to play them in that Tuesday episode and I'm just

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extremely grateful for all of you all of the time. So I just want to say that.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Okay, back to book club business. As I said, this month's book is the

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