Linda Holmes, pop culture critic and author of ‘Evvie Drake Starts Over’

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Linda Holmes, pop culture critic and author of ‘Evvie Drake Starts Over’

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Linda Holmes is a pop culture critic and host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour. She just released her debut novel, Evvie Drake Starts Over. It’s about love and loss and the choices we make that sometimes require us to start from scratch. Linda joins the show to talk about her start in writing and how the game of baseball contains a great lesson on the importance of perseverance.