PJ Vogt

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Before we start this week, a quick announcement.

Next month, June 16th in Brooklyn, I'm going to be part of a Night of Readings.

It's part of this reading series called Friends with Words, hosted by writer and director Susanna Fogel.

The theme of the night is writers reading risky work that they feel scared to read on stage.

I will be there.

Alongside This American Life's Ira Glass, Emilia Clarke from Game of Thrones, fiction writer Kristen Rupenian.

It is a stacked lineup.

There's even more people.

I think it's going to be a special night.

The venue is Roulette in Brooklyn, June 16th.

Tickets are 25 bucks.

There will be a link in our show notes.

One night only.

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