Feb 28, 2022
I can't even with how much fun this guest is. Can't. Even. Margit Sperling leads food tours in Madrid! And she's hilarious! And she reads books. I'm not saying she's the coolest person alive, but I'm not not saying it.
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Host: Julie Strauss
Guest: Margit Sperling
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
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
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Discussed in our Patreon Exclusive Clip
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
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