What an eventful day this was. Thank you to everyone who showed support.

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Need weekend plans? Isthmus & #WiBookFest have you covered! Catch Japanese Breakfast TOMORROW (04/07) at 7pm! We’ll be at the Barrymore Theatre & doors open at 6pm 🎤📚

"It was quite a dramatic shift, but unexpectedly joyful, freeing, exhilarating experience to take on this lifelong dream of writing fiction and writing a novel....It was unexpectedly pleasurable." Susanna Hoffs #ThisBirdHasFlown Little, Brown and Co wpr.org/susanna-hoffs-…

"I thought, 'Oh, it's time, in this decade that we're in... and this time period that we're all living in, to maybe do a little gender flip here. And empower the ladies.'" Susanna Hoffs on covering The Rolling Stones' #UnderMyThumb on new album, #TheDeepEnd. wpr.org/susanna-hoffs-…

"Everything led me to this moment of feeling threatened in my own home that I was afraid even to call my home for the longest time. Because in the special, I joke that I am just renting, so it's not my home." Atsuko Okatsuka HBO Max #TheIntruder wpr.org/beta-atsuko-ok…

"And he (#PeterAsher) just shared that song with me and I just felt like I was floored by that song. I thought it was one of the most beautiful songs I'd ever heard." Susanna Hoffs on Holly Humberstone's #DeepEnd. wpr.org/susanna-hoffs-…

"For me, living in a rural town in the '90s, there was a kind of isolation that I think made you get weird if you wanted something that you couldn't have." #KevinWilson #NowIsNottheTimetoPanic Ecco wpr.org/beta-kevin-wil…

.Susanna Hoffs: "I say don't wait around for permission. Just dive in ... because if you wait for permission, you may never get it." #ThisBirdHasFlown Little, Brown and Co #TheDeepEnd wpr.org/susanna-hoffs-…

Congratulations to Atsuko Okatsuka for winning the #GracieAward (AWM Headquarters) for her very funny very smart HBO Max special, #TheIntruder. wpr.org/beta-atsuko-ok…

Thanks to Nicole Dewey for making our conversation with Susanna Hoffs happen! Such an honor to talk to Susanna about her excellent debut novel #ThisBirdHasFlown and her new album, #TheDeepEnd. wpr.org/susanna-hoffs-…

"You can do a lot without having papers. So I like to normalize it by saying undocumented folks are just Americans without papers. They're able to go to public school. They're your friends. They're your neighbors." Atsuko Okatsuka #TheIntruder HBO Max wpr.org/beta-atsuko-ok…

.Tig Notaro Congratulations on your excellent work directing Atsuko Okatsuka's HBO Max special, #TheIntruder. It's cool how Atsuko went from imitating your delivery in her early standup work to having you direct this fantastic special. #FullCircle wpr.org/beta-atsuko-ok…

With rumors of a second Fyre Festival circulating, refresh your memory on the foibles of Fyre Festival 1 wpr.org/dumpster-fyre-…

Thank you Jon Stewart Mr. Bob Odenkirk Patton Oswalt reggie watts Jim Gaffigan and FRED ARMISEN for letting me interview you for my book!

"I rolled the dice so that all the rolls that you see in the story are rolls that I actually made, and then I engineered the decisions and so on to fit the arc of the story I wanted to do." Penn Jillette #Random Akashic Books #relistenability wpr.org/master-magicia…

"I suppose if there's any unifying theme through the stories, often it's the relationships between family members and friends and ex-boyfriends." #LingMa #BlissMontage #relistenability Farrar,Straus&Giroux wpr.org/100-ex-boyfrie…

"It (SST Records ) became the coolest, most sought-after, most respected indie label in America. But as time went on, its practices became increasingly corporate." @JimVermin #CorporateRockSucks malachi hatchette #relistenability wpr.org/sst-records-wa…

"I think writing essays, especially when they are earnest, there's a vulnerability to it and I think that exposes you a little bit more. Whereas like with a joke, you can hide behind it." Jena Friedman #NotFunny drops today. @simonschusteer Audio interview and article drop Fri.