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On today’s Complicated Conversation we welcome back Lauren Nossett, who is once again investigating the darkest corners of academic life in her latest thriller, The Professor. 

A follow-up to her debut, The Resemblance, we chat with Lauren about where we find her protagonist, Marlitt Kaplan, now and the journey she goes on in this novel. We also talk about how her thrillers SAY something – about truth, about the darker struggles of what it is like to be a college student, and about the price of ambition as a college professor.  Buy it now!

<p>On today’s Complicated Conversation we welcome back Lauren Nossett, who is once again investigating the darkest corners of academic life in her latest thriller, The Professor. </p>
<p>A follow-up to her debut, The Resemblance, we chat with Lauren about where we find her protagonist, Marlitt Kaplan, now and the journey she goes on in this novel. We also talk about how her thrillers SAY something – about truth, about the darker struggles of what it is like to be a college student, and about the price of ambition as a college professor.  Buy it now!</p>

In Pop Fiction Women we deep-dive into the complicated women of books, movies and TV shows, along with the women that bring them to life behind the scenes. Think Fleabag and Phoebe Waller Bridge, Normal People and Sally Rooney, and so much more.

In each episode you can expect us to:

* Break down the protagonist as we ask what makes her complicated?
* Identify the best scenes, which can mean sweetest, funniest, or most badass. Anything we love.
* Recount the cringiest scenes. The ones that make you squirm. Sometimes it’s self-sabotage, sometimes it’s growth, but it’s always part of the process of becoming our complicated selves.
* Play arm-chair therapist in What’s Your Damage, Heather? An homage to the iconic line in Winona Rider’s Heathers, we discuss how these characters got to be the way they are.
* “What She Said” - the segment where we scour every essay and interview with the women behind the scenes and share some of our favorite first person quotes. Real life is as interesting as fiction here.
* Look into our crystal ball and ponder where these characters are six months later and five years later. Typically, Kate gets very real and Carinn gets buck wild.
* Provide a takeaway, aka that part in the podcast where we try to sound deep. We leave you with some parting wisdom, challenge each other with thought-provoking questions inspired by the work, and urge you to “stay complicated.”

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