12 episodes · 5h 0m
What The Job Is
A kitchen table in flat daylight. Two mugs, because two people sat down together. A pair of worn work gloves set to one side, and an open notebook with a pen laid across it.
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Almost every job is more interesting than the person doing it will let on.
Ruth Kerrick spent twenty-two years as a millwright before she did this. Now she sits down with somebody who does a job for a living and does not get up until she understands it — not the version that fits on a business card, but what the day is actually made of, what it costs, and the part nobody outside the work has ever thought about.
Her guests are the people at the center of the novels on this platform. She asks them about the work and never about the story, so an episode stands on its own whether you have read a word of them or not — and you may well finish one wanting the books.
She has done the reading. She is not there to be surprised. She is there to ask the question that gets the answer out.
She asks every guest the same last thing: what is the thing you know that you cannot prove?