Speaker 1: Pushkin. Hey, Last Archive listeners, I want to tell you
Speaker 1: about a new series we're running in the Last Archive
Speaker 1: feed starting next week. Last year, Jill Lapour, the acclaim
Speaker 1: New York writer, American historian, and founding host of the show,
Speaker 1: published a book called The Deadline. It's a combination of
Speaker 1: year's worth of beautiful essays Jill's written on everything from
Speaker 1: the history of cryogenics to the Silicon Valley Gospel of Disruption.
Speaker 1: We made the audiobook version of The Deadline over here
Speaker 1: at Pushkin, and my colleague Sophie Crane, who's worked on
Speaker 1: The Last Archive with us since the beginning and who
Speaker 1: directed The Deadline, kept saying to me that while they
Speaker 1: were making it, it felt like a kind of grown
Speaker 1: up story hour at the library, just getting to listen
Speaker 1: to Jill read these lovely essays out loud. So we've
Speaker 1: decided to bring six of those essays to you, one
Speaker 1: per week, so you two can attend Jill Lapoor's Story
Speaker 1: Hour and more than that. At the end of each essay,
Speaker 1: I interviewed Jill about her craft as a writer and
Speaker 1: how she's thinking about the themes of these essays. Now
Speaker 1: we talk Frankenstein, we talk writing leads. We talk Barbie,
Speaker 1: we talk Doctor Who. This is a crazy origin story.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever told this before. You can
Speaker 1: listen to the Deadline next week, starting right here on
Speaker 1: the last archive