Today, we're setting up Gurki Basra. Gurki is a thought leader with an MBA from UT Austin and currently enrolled in Pepperdine’s psychology masters program. She has worked in the fashion and retail industry, having worked at Barneys New York, Neiman Marcus, and numerous other companies as a jewelry buyer. She writes the newsletter Happily Ever Single, and was a reluctant TV reality star for Netflix’s first dating reality show, Dating Around. She recently loved and enjoyed Lori Gottleib’s Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman. She loves hiking and sleeping in on Saturdays, and is a total summer person. Her on the spot ted talk would be about how going on a reality TV show showed her how complicated humans are, and she thinks everyone should watch Insecure. Gurki, welcome!

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Book picks

Ghosts by Dolly Alderton

Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper Jones

Seek You by Kristen Radtke

How to Be a Person in the World by Heather Havrilesky

August Blue by Deborah Levy

Big Swiss by Jen Beagin