Alison Stewart: This is all of it. I'm Alison Stewart live from the WNYC studios in Soho. Thank you for sharing part of your day with us. I'm really grateful that you are here on today's show. New York City Winter Jazzfest begins today and we'll bring you some of that music to the airwaves with a live in-studio performance from the jazz collective Freedom Riders. We'll also learn about the history and influence of Giant Step with its co-founder and CEO Maurice Bernstein and former Giant Step resident DJ Nickodemus. Plus, from Vinegar to Cabbage to Grandmacore, we'll preview some 2026 food trends. That's the plan. Let's get this started with what we are looking forward to reading this year.

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Alison Stewart: It's a new year, which means a whole 12 months full of exciting new books to read, including literary heavy hitters like Colson Whitehead, Elizabeth Strout to Chang-Rae Lee. It's a great time to set some reading goals for yourself. According to a YouGov poll released at the end of the year, 40% of Americans didn't read a single book in 2025. Now, that's the general public. You dear public radio listeners, you like to read a lot. Joining me now to share some anticipated reads for 2026 is Get Lit and All Of It producer Jordan Lauf. Plus we have an exciting book announcement we're going to share in just a bit. Hi, Jordan.

Jordan Lauf: Hello.

Alison Stewart: Listeners, get in on the action. What book are you excited to read this year, what are you reading and loving right now, and what reading goals have you set for 2026? Our phone lines are open 212-433-9692, 212-433-WNYC. Jordan, you have set reading goals for yourself for 2026. What are they?

Jordan Lauf: I have. I have three reading goals, actually. The first one is to read some more translated fiction. I really enjoy it. Every time I do, I find it transportative. I find it fascinating. I actually went to McNally Jackson the other day and bought a whole bunch of translated works that were on the New York Times top 100 list from last year, so I'm excited to dive into those.

My second goal is to read one biography of a Revolutionary War figure. It's the 250th anniversary. I haven't read a single biography of any of those presidents. It might be the year I conquer Hamilton. Maybe I should just do it. I don't know. Franklin is also maybe a possibility. Washington. We'll see. I still have to pick. Then my final goal is to read every single day, even if it's just two pages. I find that when I read right before bed, it's such a calming and relaxing way to go to sleep. Sometimes I'm scrolling on my phone too much and I want to stop that and make sure I read just a little bit every single day.

Alison Stewart: Those are good goals.

Jordan Lauf: Yes. Do you have any goals, Alison, for the year?

Alison Stewart: No.

Jordan Lauf: I love that. Not everything has to be goal-oriented.

Alison Stewart: Yes. It doesn't feel right for me to have goals this year for me personally, but one thing I am going to do, maybe this is a goal and a half, is I'm going to read whatever catches my eye at my local bookstore.

Jordan Lauf: Oh, I love that. That's a good goal.

Alison Stewart: Yes, I think that's important because I think that's important for our listeners that we have that same experience they do when they're roaming around their local bookstore. Like, “Oh, this catches my eye. I'll read this. I may not like it, but at least I'll try.”

Jordan Lauf: I also think local bookstores often have really good staff recommendations. I really like looking at what the staff recommends, and a lot of times it's aligned with stuff I've heard just through word of mouth. I always think that's a good way to find a new book is to see what the staff recommends. They usually know best.

Alison Stewart: All right. The list you put together, we should say it only reflects half of the year because there's so much coming out. How did you go get about putting this list together?

Jordan Lauf: Yes, so I wanted to focus on the first half of the year. In part because we don't know everything that's coming out in the fall yet. Sometimes things get announced as a surprise as we get into the year, and also because I want to focus on stuff people can pick up in the next couple months. I'm sure I'll come back at some point to talk about fall, a very busy season, but I really tried to look at the lists that are out there, a lit hub for anyone who's interested in looking at a big, comprehensive list. They do a really, really good one.

I also love to go to Kirkus Reviews and just see what they've starred upcoming. Kirkus is a really good resource. They pretty much review everything. Then I just look at authors I'm interested in. I do a little Google and see like, oh, my gosh, this person has a new book coming out. That's very exciting. I went through all that and then ranked them for myself in terms of what books I'm most excited to read this year.

Alison Stewart: On your list, you have a debut novel, but this isn't a newly published author. She wrote a memoir called Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls. Tell us about this book that she has written, this novel.

Jordan Lauf: Yes, it's a debut novel, but you're right, she's written a memoir before. It's called Whidbey. It is by T. Kira Madden. This is a novel about three different women who are each involved in the life of an abusive man. Two of them are women that he abused at some point during their lives, and one of them is his mother. That man is found murdered. It's about how the lives of these three women intersect in the course of the investigation. We find out if maybe someone, one of these three women might have been involved in his death or how that affected them. I'm always excited to read a promising debut novelist. I think that's really exciting. This one really caught my eye, and it should be out, I believe, in March.

Alison Stewart: It'll also be interesting because she already is a published author.

Jordan Lauf: Yes.

Alison Stewart: So she knows what she has to do in a novel.

Jordan Lauf: And that always helps.

Alison Stewart: Next on your list, a classic, George Saunders.

Jordan Lauf: Yes. Short story master George Saunders is back. It's his first novel since Lincoln in the Bardo. This new one is out January 27th, so coming out very soon. It is titled Vigil. I have good news for people who like to read something quickly. It is very short. They're calling it a novel. I might call it a novella since it's clocking in at 172 pages. It's a story that takes place at the deathbed of a very powerful oil company CEO as he reflects back on his life and his choices. He is joined by this woman/spirit named Doll, who has come down from the heavens to guide him to the afterlife. That's her job, but she might find that this job is particularly tricky.

What I think is really interesting is that both of George Saunders novels have dealt with the afterlife and death in some way. Lincoln in the Bardo was very much about this, and it seems like he's tackling similar themes in Vigil. I'm very excited to pick that one up.

Alison Stewart: I think he's going to be in the area performing at Symphony Space, I believe.

Jordan Lauf: I believe that he will be here on pub day, which is the 27th, the Tuesday. I think he'll be at Symphony Space. That sounds right.

Alison Stewart: Let's talk to Ronnie from Mountainside, New Jersey. Oh, this is on your list, but go for it anyway, Ronnie.

Ronnie: Ronnie, hi. I just want to say that Ann Patchett is one of my favorite authors and I saw that she's having a new book coming out in July. I went online to my local library, and they already have it on order and I'm the first one on hold.

Alison Stewart: Wow. I love that. What can you tell us about Ann Patchett's new book?

Jordan Lauf: Yes, you went ahead and stole one of my recommendations. I love it. This one is called Whistler. It will be out June 2nd and you might be the first one to get to read it if you're first on your library hold list. It's about a woman who is suddenly reunited with the man who was her stepfather when she was much younger, but he was only her stepfather for about a year before he and her mother got divorced. It's about their reconnection much later in life and going through their past relationship and what happened when that marriage dissolved and the events that led up to that.

Because it's Ann Patchett, it's sure to be emotional. I think she does such a great job at characterization and especially stories about families. I like that this will be an unconventional father, daughter, not really father, stepfather sort of portrait. It looks really good, and there's a beautiful portrait of a horse on the cover, and I have no idea yet how horses will be involved, but I'm excited to find out.

Alison Stewart: I love that she runs a bookstore, Parnassus.

Jordan Lauf: Yes.

Alison Stewart: It's amazing. And she's always shouting out other authors too.

Jordan Lauf: She does really good book recommendations on her Instagram and TikTok. I always like watching to see what she recommends.

Alison Stewart: Let's talk to Joan from Porchester. Hi Joan, thanks for making the time to call all of it.

Joan: Thanks so much. I think I'm your second person on hold, so that's really cool. Calling about a book that is going to be released this year called Black Messiah. It is a work of historical fiction about the 761st Tank Battalion, an all-Black tank battalion during World War II. It is a very compelling story that talks about the battalion and the racism and discrimination that the members of that battalion faced. They were also critical in rescuing and finding folks in a concentration camp and freeing the prisoners of a concentration camp during World War II.

I think it's the first by a writer named Steven A. Holmes, but again, it's a compelling story and it follows the life of not just the members of the battalion, but also the Jews who were being round up and sent to concentration camps. A truly compelling story.

Alison Stewart: Thanks for calling in. Let's talk to Ryan in Manhattan. Hey, Ryan.

Ryan: Hey, what's up? How's it going?

Alison Stewart: Going okay.

Ryan: I am here to talk about my best friend's first book ever. It actually comes out next week. It's called How to Be a Rich Old Lady. The author is Amanda Holden. She spent years developing online courses and financial literacy specifically focused on women, and so she now has brought all of that knowledge together. She's also wildly funny and hilarious, and so it's just like super accessible, like easy to understand and easy to action on long-term financial guidance and financial strategies so that she, we and everybody else can just be a rich old lady in our futures.

Alison Stewart: I love the title. [laughs]

Jordan Lauf: I love being being a rich old lady is sort of genderless. It's just anyone can be a rich old lady. May we all aspire to be a rich old lady.

Alison Stewart: My guest is All Of It and Get Lit producer Jordan Lauf. We're talking about her list of most anticipated books in 2026. Listeners, we want to hear from you. What book are you excited to read this year? What are your reading goals, if you have any? What are you reading right now? Give us a call at 212-433-9692, 212-433-WNYC. Next, you have a former Get Lit author, Xochitl Gonzalez. Her Instagram is amazing. She's important things to talk about. Let's just say that. What is she writing about this time?

Jordan Lauf: Yes, she's a riot. She's back with another Brooklyn set tale. Folks might know her as the author of Olga Dies Dreaming and Anita de Monte Laughs Last, which was a Get Lit selection a few years ago. Her new one is titled Last Night in Brooklyn. It's set in Fort Greene in 2007 in the midst of rapid gentrification of that neighborhood.

sIt follows one woman who becomes ensnared and caught between the lives of two different people who are her neighbors. One is this person called La Garza, who is an up and coming fashion designer who's hosting fabulous parties at her Fort Greene apartment. The other is the protagonist's cousin who's a banker who's just moved to the neighborhood and is part of this wave of changing the neighborhood. I think she's so great, in particular, in writing about class-

Alison Stewart: Absolutely.

Jordan Lauf: -and how wealth and the changes in population have really changed the face of Brooklyn since she's been there. She's a Brooklyn native, so I'm really excited for that one and I can't wait for it to come out.

Alison Stewart: Yes, she writes about that a lot in The Atlantic. She's really good at it. Emma Straub. Emma Straub. We love Emma Straub. She has a new book coming out.

Jordan Lauf: We love Emma Straub. Her new book is called American Fantasy. It is out April 7th. This one is, sounds so fun, it is set on a cruise ship and it's a cruise ship designed specifically for fans of a certain has-been boy band from the ‘90s.

Alison Stewart: It is such a smart plot.

Jordan Lauf: Yes, so everyone on the boat is obsessed with this boy band except our protagonist Annie who's there reluctantly with her sister. She's going through a divorce. She's not super happy to be there, but her sister's a huge fan. Soon she finds herself maybe striking up a little friendship with one of the boy band members who might just be looking for a connection of his own. We'll see what happens from there. I don't know. It sounds like a good movie to me. Let's get that made.

Alison Stewart: It does sound like a good movie. This is the point where we're gonna talk about our special announcement because Emma was also a Get Lit author.

Jordan Lauf: She was.

Alison Stewart: Jordan, you have something very exciting to tell our audience about. Go for it.

Jordan Lauf: Yes. I am thrilled to tell our audience that we are going to be launching the Get Lit with All Of It newsletter.

Alison Stewart: Wo-po-po-po.

Jordan Lauf: Woo-hoo. This is going to be a newsletter for book lovers of all stripes. I'm so excited to get to invite all of you to sign up. Just to tell you a little bit about what will be in the newsletter, first of all, it'll be your first place to get to know about our Get Lit events and our authors. If you're curious about next month's selection, you'll get an email in your inbox about that. You'll get all the information on the events, get ways to sign up for tickets, all of that great Get Lit updates and including hopefully some special content from each of our Get Lit authors.

We will also feature highlights from some of the best book conversations on our show just in case you missed them. We have so many great authors on the show and I know it can be hard to keep track of all of them. Now they will all be in one place. They'll land in your inbox. You'll get to hear those. We will also have recommendations. We love doing recommendations on the show and we just don't have time to do it every week or twice a month. This is gonna be a great place to spotlight what I'm reading, what Alison's reading, what people around WNYC are reading, and also hopefully what you guys are reading. There will be a sort of follower participation element.

It's really just gonna be a great one-stop shop for all of the book content we do here on the show, plus some extra recommendations and little goodies. We're going to start with it being twice a month. We'll see how that develops. If you want to go pre-register right now, you won't get the first email yet. It's not quite ready, but if you want to be one of the first people to sign up, all you have to do is give us your email address and you can find the link to sign up at wnyc.org/getlit where you usually find the tickets for Get Lit and all that good stuff. That's wnyc.org/getlit to sign up for the forthcoming Get Lit with All Of It newsletter.

Alison Stewart: We had a special effect ready to go.

Jordan Lauf: Oh, no. [laughs]

Alison Stewart: It was going to be a big announcement. We'll try it after the break.

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Jordan Lauf: Oh, whoo.

Alison Stewart: [laughs] We'll have more after a quick break.

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Alison Stewart: You're listening to All Of It on WNYC. I'm Alison Stewart. Joining me in studio is All Of It and Get Lit producer Jordan Lauf. We’re talking about her list of most anticipated books of 2026. Listeners, we want to hear from you. We know you like to read. What are you looking forward to reading this year? What are you reading right now? Do you have any goals set? Our number is 212-433-9692, 212-433-WNYC. We'll get to more calls in just a moment, but we have a new novel coming out in February. It's a sophomore effort to a novel that came out in 2018 and it was a huge, huge hit.

Jordan Lauf: Yes, this is the latest from Tayari Jones, who is the author of An American Marriage, which people are probably familiar with. It was a huge hit as you mentioned. Her latest is called Kin. It is out February 24th, and it follows two friends, both of whom have lost their mother in some way. They are not growing up with a mother and they're two women who end up on very different life paths. One finds herself going to Spelman College and ends up ingratiated in this world of wealthy, elite Black women who attended this school, and the other is struggling and has a much harder time of it. It's about their friendship and their lives throughout the course of their diverging paths. I just love books about friendship. I think particularly female friendship is ripe for analysis and great literature. I'm really excited to read the next one from her.

Alison Stewart: She gave me a great tip. Not a tip, but an observation about writing once that said, a lot of people say you have to write every day, you have to write a thousand words every day. By saying that, you're eliminating the nurses and the bus drivers who don't have time to write every day. She doesn't believe in that. She says if you have time to write, write, write on a napkin, write it on a post-it, but don’t just create a time to write because so many people can't afford to do that.

Jordan Lauf: Totally. I think about, that always reminds me of Haruki Murakami, who is now a huge Japanese star in the literary world, but was the owner of a bar and just started writing a little bit every night after he closed the bar down and then just became this huge literary star. You're right. When you think about writers only being people who are doing an MFA program or sitting alone in their office every day, you're right, ysou're leaving out a whole group of people with very interesting perspectives. I think that's really good advice.

Alison Stewart: Let's talk to Pat in Maplewood. Hey Pat, thanks for calling All Of It.

Pat: Hi, yes, I am very much looking forward to Dogs, Boys and Other Things I've Cried About by Isabel Klee. She works in the dog rescue world and she herself has fostered over 30 dogs. She tells the stories of these dogs and she brings them into her home and heals them and finds the help to find their forever homes. Her voice is so lovely and strong and life affirming. I'm really looking forward to this. I think we really need this sort of thing now.

Alison Stewart: Thank you so much for calling. Life affirming, I like that. Let's talk to Gladys from Long Island. Hi, Gladys. Thank you so much for taking the time to call All Of It.

Gladys: Yes, hello. Hello and thank you for taking my call. Well, my goal is actually to try to read at least 20 books this year. No gender here, but I would like to definitely at reading right now Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger. I know I probably chopped his name, but it's a great read. It's in a small book, but as an immigrant, as you can probably tell from my voice, is really, really a wakeup call that we are what keep this country moving. I thought it would be about something completely different, but really he try in this book, I guess, to give us a lesson how we all can be useful in many different scenarios of our people's lives. If I might add, I will, this March, I believe the paperback is coming out for Ali Velshi. Book is Small Acts of Courage. I read only the first chapter yet, but it's a wonderful read too.

Alison Stewart: Thank you so much for calling, Gladys. Carrie from Greenwich Village. Hey Carrie, thanks for calling All Of It.

Carrie: Thanks so much. I'd like to recommend Francis Spufford’s novel Nonesuch, which is coming out on March 10th. It's set during the London Blitz and is about a young woman who gets embroiled in some rather-- an iffy night, and then has to fight against time traveling Nazis.

Jordan Lauf: Oh.

Alison Stewart: Oh, that sounds exciting. Thank you so much for calling in. Let's talk about what else is on your list. Let's go over to Scotland.

Jordan Lauf: Yes, I love to travel to Scotland, and I especially love to travel to Scotland via the work of author Douglas Stuart, who I just learned used to be a fashion designer. I had no idea. People might know him as the acclaimed author of novels like Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo. They are all set in Scotland. They're all heartfelt and moving. His new one is called John of John. It is out May 5, and it tells the story of a Scottish man who returns to the small island off the coast of Scotland where he's from after a little bit of a failure to launch elsewhere. He ends up having to grapple with his father, returning to his father, who's a sheep farmer and a preacher, very religious, very different from this man, and is dedicated to trying to save his son. I think that Douglas Stuart is really good at making places feel immersive. You'll really get the sense of this tiny Scottish island just from reading the novel. His books are always so heartfelt and moving. I'm really excited for that one. John of John, out May 5th.

Alison Stewart: All right, I want to hear about Colson Whitehead's Harlem Trilogy. The third one is coming out this summer. I'm very excited.

Jordan Lauf: Yes, the third and final installment in the Harlem Trilogy from Colson Whitehead. It is called Cool Machine. It is coming out on July 21st, and we're still with our protagonist, the furniture dealer/fence, Ray Carney. Now we're in the ‘80s, which I'm very excited about. ‘80s in New York is gonna be really good. Ray thinks he's retired from the criminal life. He thinks he's done with all of that, but then his wife, his beloved wife, is denied a loan by the bank for her new travel agency that she wants to set up. Ray decides that he might do one last heist just to try to get her that money.

Alison Stewart: Oh, Ray.

Jordan Lauf: Oh, Ray. At what cost, Ray? Do you really still think that's a good idea after all this? What a fun trilogy this has been. I'm excited that it's coming to a conclusion. I know, I think Colson Whitehead in the last couple years has been really known for heavy, dark books. It's been so delightful to see him do some fun romps through Harlem. I'm excited to see what he'll work on once he's done with the trilogy.

Alison Stewart: We got a couple of texts here. This said, loved Cameron Crowe's memoir The Uncool. Perfect for music and pop culture fans. Looking forward to the All Of It summer reading challenge already.

Jordan Lauf: Ah.

Alison Stewart: You've changed the way I read. Love that.

Jordan Lauf: Oh, I love that.

Alison Stewart: This says I'm excited to read Antifascist Dad by Matthew Remski, which comes out in April. Remski hosts a great podcast by the same name and as a new dad trying to navigate parenthood at this time, I think it will help a lot. This one says, and the ancestors sing a sweeping multi-generational novel of sacrifice, survival and the unbreakable pull of home, set against the rapidly changing backdrop of post-cultural revolutionary China.

Jordan Lauf: Wow. That sounded like a professional description.

Alison Stewart: It does sound like a professional description. It's okay if it is. All right, what is your most anticipated novel of the year? The one that has Jordan excited.

Jordan Lauf: The novel that I am most excited about, mini little drumroll to myself is Land by Maggie O'Farrell. It is out June 2nd. Maggie O'Farrell is the author of Hamnet, which is very much having a moment right now with the film adaptation, which I thought was a very faithful and beautiful adaptation of the book, which was one of the best books I've ever read. That novel really blew me away.

I'm very excited for Land. This new one is set in Ireland just after the great famine, and it's about a father and son who are tasked with mapping the whole island of Ireland. They're almost done with the mission, but one day the father has an unsettling encounter that changes everything. What I liked about Hamnet is that that there were a little bit of mystical elements in it. The protagonist, Agnes has this sort of like mystical quality to her. I get the sense that there might be a little bit of mysticism in this new one.

Plus, Maggie O'Farrell has such a knack for making historical periods feel almost contemporary and real and like you're living in it. Sometimes historical characters can feel a little stodgy or far away. Her characters feel so human and so relatable. I'm really, really excited for that one. It is out June 2nd.

Alison Stewart: This text says I'm finally gonna catch up on last year with The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai and Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy. Being an artist and mother also, reading time is limited, but I love the work of my South Asian sister artists.

Jordan Lauf: Yes, big year for South Asian women writers. Last year there were a lot of them, including Megha Majumdar's novel A Guardian and a Thief, all very acclaimed books from last year. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is a long read, but it's worth it. There's a lot of good stuff in there.

Alison Stewart: All right, we're gonna go to nonfiction.

Jordan Lauf: Yes.

Alison Stewart: You know I love nonfiction.

Jordan Lauf: Yes.

Alison Stewart: This made me laugh when you wrote this down. It says Patrick Radden Keefe alert.

Jordan Lauf: Patrick Radden Keefe alert. There should be a special sound effect just for that. There's a new Patrick Radden Keefe coming out. Yes, there is a new Patrick Radden Keefe. He has worked on this new book called London Falling, a mysterious death in a gilded city and a family search for truth. That is out April 7th. This is the story he's been following for a while of a 19-year-old teenager who died after falling from a luxury apartment in London. His parents decide to investigate for themselves what might have happened and learn of this whole secret underworld life that he was living in London that they knew nothing about. Patrick Radden Keefe puts on his investigative journalist hat.

Alison Stewart: Always a good thing.

Jordan Lauf: Exactly, and goes for it. I just want to say that I visited a children's book camp for middle schoolers and high schoolers last summer. I asked the kids like, “Who would you recommend to come on a radio show?” The first little girl raised her hand and said, “I like this author called Patrick Radden Keefe.” I just could not believe my ears. The kids are all right. If they're reading Patrick Radden Keefe, I think they'll be okay.

Alison Stewart: What about a memoir?

Jordan Lauf: Yes, this one I'm really excited about, although it does sound very sad and moving. This is from Siri Hustvedt. It is called Ghost Stories, A Memoir. Siri is a novelist and author herself, but she is also the longtime partner of Paul Auster, who died a few years ago. This is a memoir about their life together and also an exploration of grief, because as many of our listeners may know, before Paul himself died, his son and granddaughter died in a very tragic incident. She talks about that in this memoir. This memoir also contains parts of his last unfinished work, which was a work addressed to his grandson. I think this promises to be very moving portrait of a marriage and grief and also hopefully a portrait of a great New York writer in Paul Auster.

Alison Stewart: You have something about history here, and I think it's really important because it's about Russian history.

Jordan Lauf: It is about Russian history. It is a new book coming out called A Kingdom and a Village, A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow. That's by Simon Morrison. It is out March 3rd. What interests me about this one is I really like looking at the history of one city as a way to understand the history of a place. It's obviously look at Russian history, but through this very specific lens of Moscow. Of course, considering, the war that is going on in Ukraine and other international events, I find it always helpful to understand how we got to a place. History is the best way to do that often. I'm really excited about that one.

Alison Stewart: That is called A Kingdom and a Village-

Jordan Lauf: A Kingdom and a Village.

Alison Stewart: -One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow.

Jordan Lauf: Yes.

Alison Stewart: All right. One piece of translated fiction. I think that's all we have time for.

Jordan Lauf: All right, all right. You know what? If I have to pick one, I'm going to go with my heart, and I'm gonna say I'm really excited for the new Jo Nesbo thriller that comes out in February. He is a Nordic crime writer. Our senior producer, Andrea Duncan-Mao loves that stuff. He is famous for his detective series with a detective named Harry, but this is a standalone mystery set in Minneapolis of all places. It's called Wolf Hour.

This features two timelines. In one, a police officer is trying to catch a man he suspects of being a serial killer in Minneapolis. Then years later, a Norwegian crime writer travels to Minneapolis to write a book about this case, but this case might not just be of journalistic interest to him, he might have something else to do with this case. It's both Nordic and local because it's in Minneapolis, and I think it's going to be really fun.

Alison Stewart: Before we go, once again, our very exciting announcement that we are going to be starting a Get lit with All Of It newsletter. Jordan, give them the details.

Jordan Lauf: Yes. It's a new newsletter. It's coming out soon. It'll be updates on our Get Lit events. It'll be book recommendations. It'll be thoughts about literary trends, what's going on right now, and also hopefully a participation element where you guys get to share your recommendations with us. The best way to sign up, to pre-sign up to make sure you get that first email in your inbox is to head to wnyc.org/getlit, that is wnyc.org/getlit. All you have to do is give us your email and we'll get you all signed up for the first installment.

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Jordan Lauf: Oh, and the crowd goes wild.

Alison Stewart: The crowd goes wild. Thanks, Jordan.

Jordan Lauf: Thank you.