Maria Semple
speaker
519 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 26 Jun
Maria Semple’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's right.
Okay, so Adora is a single, divorced woman, the mother of a teenage daughter who lives in New York City.
Okay, so far, you.
Exactly, so far, me.
And she is a philosopher, and her job is to teach ethics to these tween...
twin boys of a old money New York family.
Right.
And she's figured out that the way to be happy is to rid herself of all desire, that desire is the source of suffering, which is a stoic thing.
It's a Buddhist thing.
It's something that, you know, you hear about a lot.
And so when we first meet Adora, she's really living
living the philosophy quite swimmingly you know of this quote from she's he who wants nothing is the richest man in the world i said paraphrasing seneca the less you want the happier you'll be exactly she's living out that philosophy she really is and so she's very contented with her life and it's all going quite well until she meets a handsome stranger at the ballet the
And then she maybe realizes that the desire has not entirely been snuffed out inside of her.
Well, thank you.
You know, that's a huge compliment.
And I will tell you that it really felt like an act of madness as I was writing this book, because I was like, I want to write all about philosophy.
I want to make this huge mystery thriller.
I knew there was this whole section about, you know, internalized misogyny and television writing that I wanted to get to.
And I had this big, crazy ending.
And plus, it's a romance.
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