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In this episode of Marginalia, KMUW's Beth Golay speaks with author C.J. Farley about his novel, "Who Knows You By Heart," which dives into the implications AI has on one woman who begins working at a Big Tech company

This week, we look at the (sometimes huge) differences between the technical, specialized definitions of words, and what they mean to everybody else.

On this week's episode, Beth Golay visits with Pulitzer Prize–winner Andrew Sean Greer about his new novel, "Villa Coco." Plus, we welcome David Enyeart, manager of Next Chapter Booksellers in St. Paul, Minnesota, to talk about genre fiction.

School's out, so we're celebrating all the new graduates by looking at the backgrounds of some graduation-related words.

This week on Marginalia, Beth Golay speaks with author Dave Eggers about his newest novel, "Contrapposto."

We return to one of our favorite (and sometimes most confusing) topics: rules of English that we know instinctively, but that we have no idea we know.

On this episode, Beth Golay speaks with author Claire Fuller about her novel, "Hunger & Thirst."

Today we make a lot of noise by exploring nonverbal vocalizations: all those sounds that aren't words, exactly, but that still carry a lot of meaning.

On this episode of Marginalia, Beth Golay visits with John Lanchester about his novel, "Look What You Made Me Do." Plus, Suzanne Perez reviews "Small Boat" by Vincent Delecroix.

To split infinitives or to not split them? (Ir)regardless, we'll dive into some everyday language arguments that get people all worked up.