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Ep 585 - The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan

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The Emotional Importance of Technology

Egan is interested in the emotional reasons why we engage with technology this way. She's not here to scold us, Egan, I don't think at all. And it's a series of stories of people learning this one lesson about what a fiction rather than perfect recollection of reality. The end of this book is this like little story about a character we've spent no time with and he hit a baseball real good.

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