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From WB Easy Chicago, this is Nerdette. I'm Greta Johnson.

It's the Nerdette Book Club, which is just like a regular book club,

except you don't have to share your snacks.

It is the month of October, and our selection this month is Lauren Groff's novel, The Vaster Wilds.

It is about a girl in early American colonial history who runs away from her settlement

and has to figure out how to survive in the woods.

That's all I'm going to say for now, but we are about to have an extremely spoilery conversation.

So if you have not read the book and you do not want to know what happens,

go listen to our spoiler-free interview with Lauren Groff.

It is in the feed. If you have read the book or you're totally cool with spoilers either way,

we are so glad to have you, and I am also very excited to introduce you to this month's guests.

With us, we have a long-distance dog-sletter, Blair Braverman, the author of a couple of books,

including The novel Small Game, which is about a survivalist TV show that goes terribly wrong.

Blair, welcome to Nerdette.

Greta, I am so happy to be here.

I am so happy to have you also here is the delightful MJ Franklin and editor for the New York Times book review.

MJ, welcome back.

Thank you, thank you for having me again. It's always a delight to join.

Yay, okay, so we heard from a lot of listeners with this one, which I'm very excited about.

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