Burden or delight?
Is a million pennies a burden or a delight? Plus, we explore the practice of body neutrality.
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A decade of delight
Nerdette is 10 years old!!! We’re celebrating!
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Listen — 32:16Nerdette Book Club: Shannon Chakraborty on ‘The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi’
A retired pirate is called back to her old life on the high seas.
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Listen — 24:04The naked truth about hot dogs
Get ready to never look at a hot dog in the same way again, thanks to Jamie Loftus!
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Listen — 30:20Nerdette Book Club: ‘Take What You Need,’ discussed!
Our May selection is all about relationships, art, and ambiguity.
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Listen — 35:07Everything’s garbage. Sam Irby makes it better.
We talk to Sam Irby about her latest essay collection, ‘Quietly Hostile.’
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Listen — 35:59K-Beauty is all the rage
NPR’s Elise Hu tells us about her new book on South Korea’s booming beauty industry.
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Listen — 34:02Trans visibility with Tre’vell Anderson
The entertainment journalist’s new book is a “raucous education” on trans representation on screen.
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Listen — 28:18Pulitzer Prize winner Hernan Diaz on ‘Trust’
The author of the Nerdette Book Club pick ‘Trust’ won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction this week.
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Listen — 23:26Your summer books preview
Four voracious readers bully each other (in the friendliest way possible!) into reading the most anticipated books of the summer.
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