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Describe your latest book.
My book is called
Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs. It’s a book about hot dogs, via a road trip I took across the country with my ex-boyfriend and pets during the summer of 2021. I hope you’ll think it’s funny and learn about hot dogs and become a socialist (me vibes) or a vegan (not me vibes) or both after reading it. It’s about the hot dog’s history, dating back to the primordial sausage, through the industrial labor and animal right’s nightmare that is the meatpacking industry past and present, and via the small businesses and people I encounter on our journey. Highlights include a thorough detour into one of my favorite topics of all time, women’s professional hot dog eating rivalries, and whether people are fucking on the Oscar Meyer wienermobile or not (they are). It’s also a reflection on a relationship and an eating disorder that objectively were not working, across a country that was aggressively ignoring the plague. I can’t believe they let me write it and I hope you enjoy it....