Waiting on a Friend by Natalie Adler is a big-hearted, tender and hilarious story about love, ghosts, and community. Natalie joins us to talk about New York City, the 1980s, nostalgia, boundaries, hope and more with host Miwa Messer.

This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.

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Featured Books (Episode): Waiting on a Friend by Natalie Adler My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer Nineties and Beyond by Hugh Ryan Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics by Kim Phillips-Fein Beloved by Toni Morrison The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Black Book by Middleton A. Harris Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony Kushner Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS by David France The Book of Daniel by E. L. Doctorow