Tara Westover is the author of Educated. “I used to be so fearful. ... I was afraid of losing my family. Then, after I had lost them, I was afraid that I made the wrong decision. Then I wrote the book and I was afraid that was the wrong decision. Everything made me frightened back then, and I just—I don't have that feeling now.” Show notes:

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00:00 Educated (Random House • 2018)

09:00 "I Am Not Proof of the American Dream" (New York Times • Feb 2022)

21:00 A Visit from the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan • Knopf • 2011)

35:00 Nobel Lecture (Kazuo Ishiguro • 2017)

36:00 The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel Van Der Kolk • Penguin • 2015)

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