Novelist Celeste Ng on the Big Power of Little Things

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  From the New York Times, I'm Anna Martin.

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  This is Modern Love.

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  And today,

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  we're starting a special series in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Modern Love Column.

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  Longtime listeners will remember the early days of this podcast when we had actors read Modern Love essays.

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  And I want to be really clear, when I say actors, I mean like,

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  household name, red carpet walk-in actors.

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  So we're bringing that concept back with a bit of a twist.

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  For the rest of the season, you're going to hear actors read essays,

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  but you're also going to hear from musicians, writers, filmmakers,

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  relationship experts,

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  all kinds of creative and brilliant people who are thinking about love and making art about it.

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  Bringing us off today is writer Celeste Ing.

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  She's the author of three best-selling books you may have heard of them.

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  Everything I never told you, little fires everywhere, and most recently,

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  our missing hearts.

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  Now, I know that Celeste is acclaimed in the literary fiction world,

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  but the thing about her books is they're also absolutely engrossing.

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  I actually, this kind of embarrassing,

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