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The Opportunist
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🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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In this episode of Oprah’s Book Club: Presented by Starbucks, Oprah and author Eric Puchner discuss his newest book "Dream State" - a novel New York Times bestselling author Elin Hildebrand calls “an absolute masterpiece.” Set in Montana, Oprah’s 111th book club pick is a page turner and emotional rollercoaster that spans 50 years in the lives of college friends starting in the early 1990s. As we witness this tight circle experience friendship, a love triangle, marriage, raising kids aging and death, the novel evokes powerful questions about what really matters in life.
For this conversation, Eric and Oprah are joined by a live audience enjoying Matcha Lattes in a Starbucks cafe in the iconic Empire State Building.
Eric talks about character development, his writing process and his thought-provoking depiction of friendship, marriage and parenting while taking questions from the audience of avid readers.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome Eric. |
| 0:07.6 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:09.1 | You were so stunned when I called. |
| 0:10.7 | I was incredibly stunned when you called. |
| 0:12.5 | In fact, my publicist had made me think that he was just calling to talk about something kind of boring. |
| 0:17.9 | Hello? |
| 0:18.6 | Hello. Is this Eric? |
| 0:20.4 | Yes, it is. |
| 0:21.4 | Eric, hi, it's Oprah Winfrey. |
| 0:23.8 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:25.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:26.2 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:27.3 | I teach at Johns Hopkins University, and I get terrible reception to my office, |
| 0:31.4 | so I was crouched in my car in this kind of ugly parking lot, |
| 0:34.9 | and then it was Oprah on the line. |
| 0:36.4 | It almost dropped the phone. |
| 0:37.3 | I was completely astonished. |
| 0:38.7 | Well, it's great to have you here. |
| 0:40.3 | I told you we were going to be in at Starbucks, books in conversation. |
| 0:43.7 | And you know what you said? |
| 0:44.7 | Oh, will I be a part of that? |
| 0:49.1 | That's the whole idea. |
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