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Host: Julie Strauss
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Guest: Margit Sperling
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Discussed in this episode:
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
This American Life
Santaland Diaries (Essay read by David Sedaris on This American Life)
You can read all of David Sedaris’ Christmas themed essays in his book Holidays on Ice
Calypso by David Sedaris
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

Discussed in our Patreon Exclusive Clip
Ruta’l Quesu y la Sidra
Stewed cockscomb
My Octopus Teacher
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

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