Anne Bogel

But also there's some more cerebral breakdowns of how she responds or doesn't to certain pieces.

The Marfa ghost lights are not artistic exactly, but was also a really fun textural detail.

But the art is not limited to Marfa.

We also go to LA and New York City and Japan.

Like there's so much fun there.

nerdy, creative, intellectual stuff in these pages because her husband's a scientist, she's an artist.

And the book really examines that whole interplay between science and art and a human desire to understand it.

And the things we do understand and also a question it poses is how much is beyond our understanding at all.

And that may sound really deep, but piece by piece with characters having conversations and thinking about the works in front of them, like the right reader could really fly through this.

How's this sounding to you?

I'm glad to hear it.

Okay, this next one is a little more of a stretch, but I think some of the literary story elements that aren't specifically about art have a lot in common with some of your favorites, including especially Heart the Lover.

In Heart the Lover, what we have is the protagonist, Jordan,

Looking back at a distance of many years and reflecting on what happened in her college years and how these relationships changed her life and also how she feels differently about them in her.

I think she's in her 40s than she ever knew to think of them when she was in her early 20s.

But the book I'm thinking of is Dear Monica Lewinsky by Julia Longbine.

It came out mid-April.

Is this one you're familiar with?

Okay.

The cover is really distinctive.