Heather Radke is an essayist, journalist, and contributing editor and reporter at Radiolab, the Peabody Award­-winning program from WNYC. She has written for publications including The Believer, Longreads, and The Paris Review, and she teaches at Columbia University’s creative writing MFA Program. Before becoming a writer, Heather worked as a curator at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in Chicago.

Book recommendations:

• The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
• Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper Jones
• Let’s Talk About Love by Carl Wilson

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