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Nerdette
Nerdette is a interview show that helps you unwind with fun conversations, inspiring ideas, and delightful recommendations.
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640 episodesGoodbye for now!
As y’all probably know, we’re calling this the “goodbye for now” episode of Nerdette because it’s our last episode while we’re employees at WBEZ. So,...
Nerdette Book Club: More with Amor Towles, LIVE!
May’s Book Club selection is the fabulous short story collection ‘Table for Two’ by Amor Towles. It was amazing to get to talk to Amor in front of a L...
All the books to read this summer!!!
This week, we ask voracious reader Liberty Hardy to rave about the best books coming out this summer. Liberty is the host of the Book Riot podcast ‘Al...
A kitchen therapy session with Tamar Adler
This week, cookbook author and leftovers lover Tamar Adler joins us to answer YOUR questions on cooking, hosting and eating. Tamar is the author of 'T...
Nerdette Book Club LIVE with Amor Towles!
This week, we are bringing you a special LIVE edition of Nerdette Book Club!!! The great Amor Towles, author of 'A Gentleman in Moscow' and 'The Linco...
A joyfully defiant summer playlist
This week, we’re sharing some of the best new music out this summer! Our friend Kristen Kurtis is the assistant music director and Morning Show host a...
Nerdette Book Club discusses ‘Beautyland’
Our April Book Club pick is Marie-Helene Bertino’s second novel 'Beautyland.' It tells the story of Adina, a girl born in Philadelphia in 1977, just a...
CORGIS ARE DELIGHTFUL
This week, we are taking some time to reflect on the past *11 years* of Nerdette by listening to two of our all-time favorite interviews. First, Greta...
Tortured poets and airlines for dogs
This week, senior Reset producer Meha Ahmad and journalist Araceli Gómez-Aldana join us to unpack the week. We get into friendship breakups over Taylo...
Is mayo a burden or a delight? WE FIND OUT.
This week, our friends Dan Pashman, host of 'The Sporkful' podcast and author of the new cookbook 'Anything’s Pastable,' and Helen Rosner, staff write...
Killer gams FTW
We are unpacking the week that was with Amory Sivertson, host of the WBUR podcasts Beyond All Repair and Endless Thread, and Kristina Lopez, producer...
Nerdette Book Club: Marie-Helene Bertino on ‘Beautyland’
Our April selection is Marie-Helene Bertino’s gorgeous and entrancing novel 'Beautyland.' It’s about Adina, who realizes she is actually an alien disg...
Bonus: The Culture Study Podcast
We're on Spring Break this week so we're bringing you a podcast that we think you'll love from our friends at The Culture Study Podcast. Get ready for...
Nerdette Book Club discusses ‘Martyr!’
Our March book club pick is Kaveh Akbar’s debut novel ‘Martyr!’ It’s about Cyrus, who was born in Iran and moved to the midwest as a child after his m...
Burden or Delight: Sourdough edition
This week, two of our favorite guests, City Cast Chicago host Jacoby Cochran and Not Sorry Productions faculty member Margaret Willison, stop by to pl...
The aggressively delightful Noel Fielding
This week, senior correspondent at Vox Alex Abad-Santos and Bridget Todd, host of the podcasts ‘City Cast DC’ and ‘There Are No Girls on the Internet,...
Xochitl Gonzalez on art, belonging and nostalgia
We unpack the week with Ronald Young Jr., host of ‘Weight For It,’ and Arionne Nettles, head of Northwestern’s audio journalism program and author of...
Nerdette Book Club: Kaveh Akbar on ‘Martyr!’
Nerdette Book Club’s March selection is ‘Martyr!,’ the first novel from poet Kaveh Akbar. Our team chose it because it is vibrant, incisive and the pe...
We have some questions for Rebecca Makkai
This week, we are diving into the world of boarding school, wrongful conviction and true crime podcasts. Yes, we are talking about the book I Have Som...
Nerdette Book Club: ‘Come and Get It,’ discussed!
Nerdette Book Club is keeping things moving in 2024 with Kiley Reid’s sophomore novel, ‘Come and Get It.’ It’s a juicy, messy novel that takes place o...
Here’s to mucking about!
This week, comedian and Fake the Nation host Negin Farsad and Ted Talks Daily host Elise Hu join us to discuss a week’s worth of litigious news. We le...
Kelly Link’s uncanny novel is “a love letter to romance”
This week, Niala Boodhoo, host and editor of the Axios podcast 1 big thing, and Aubrey Gordon, subject of the upcoming documentary 'Your Fat Friend' a...
The Tortured Nerdettes Department
This week, Rhaina Cohen, author of 'The Other Significant Others,' and The Stacks host Traci Thomas stop by to talk about the sports game happening th...
Nerdette Book Club: Kiley Reid on 'Come and Get It'
Our February selection is Come and Get It by Kiley Reid! Reid’s debut novel, ‘Such a Fun Age,’ was a salacious, fizzy novel about the messy power dyna...
Snacky and tired? Us too.
This week, we are beating the winter blahs and leaning into coziness. First, we talk to City Cast Chicago host Jacoby Cochran and WBEZ’s Araceli Gómez...
Nerdette Book Club: ‘Jonathan Abernathy You are Kind,’ discussed!
Nerdette Book Club is off to an excellent start with our first selection of 2024, ‘Jonathan Abernathy You are Kind’ by Molly McGhee! It’s a deeply str...
12 books to read in 2024
This week, co-hosts of the Just Between Us podcast, Gabe Dunn and Allison Raskin, stop in to play Burden or Delight. This week’s topics: double dippin...
Silent Book Club: An introvert’s dream
This week, we are distracting ourselves from the freezing cold weather with a game of Burden or Delight. Our panelists are Adora Namigadde, WBEZ metro...
New year, new Stanley tumbler
We’re back with our first pop culture panel of 2024! In that spirit, we are talking all about New Year's resolutions and the myth of fresh starts. Our...
Special Episode - Missing Pages
This week we're sharing an episode we think you'll enjoy. It's from the podcast Missing Pages and it is the first part of their two-part series on boo...
Nerdette Book Club: Molly McGhee on ‘Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind’
Nerdette Book Club is kicking off a new year of reading with Molly McGhee’s debut novel Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind. Our protagonist, Jonathan Abe...
The best TV shows of 2023
Despite two historic writers’ and actors’ strikes, there was a lot of TV to watch this year. We turned to two TV critics to weigh in on their favorite...
The best podcasts of 2023
To find the best podcasts of the year, we talked to two veritable experts in the form: Leah-Simone Bowen, host of ‘Podcast Playlist’ from the CBC, and...
The best books of 2023
We are reflecting on a year of reading by tallying up the books that we just can’t stop thinking about. Two professional readers – Miwa Messer, host o...
The best cookbooks of 2023
It’s that time of year where we sit back, relax and reflect on some of the best stuff that came out this year!
First up, we asked...
Special Episode - Text Me Back
This week, we're sharing a podcast from our public radio friends KUOW in Seattle. It's called "Text Me Back" and it's all about friendship and making...
Yes, you are an activist
This week, we are asking the important questions about 2024. Like, what plant will we fall in love with? And what body part will be in style? Those ar...
Nerdette Book Club: ‘Land of Milk and Honey,’ discussed!
Nerdette Book Club is back to discuss our November selection, ‘Land of Milk and Honey’ by C Pam Zhang! It’s a novel about survival, privilege, and see...
A sinister summer at ‘Saltburn’
Academy Award winning writer, actor, and director Emerald Fennell tells us about her intoxicating new movie ‘Saltburn,’ which is out this week. It’s a...
Give thanks, eat veggies
Thanksgiving is almost upon us, so it’s time to get cooking! First, we ask chef Tanya Holland to share some fun, fresh ideas for the big meal. Tanya i...