please welcome lexi freiman! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ welcome! ♪ ♪ lexi, welcome! >> thank you!i love this book. >> thank you. >> jordan: this book is so funny and searing. >> searing. >> jordan: do you like searing? >> i love searing. >> jordan: you love searing? >> all authors like searing. >> jordan: do you want a searing novel that gets into this shit? makes fun of a little bit of everything, reveals something about yourself -- it revealed nothing about me. i love this book. this book starts, it follows somebody who gets canceled. >> yes. >> jordan: and one of her first moves is she finds the writings of ayn rand. >> yes. >> jordan: and you describe her initial thoughts about ayn rand as -- the character says, the main character, anne, "always considered her the gateway drug for bad husbands to quit their jobs and start online stock trading." [laughs] >> yeah, yeah. true. >> jordan: [laughs] so what is compelling about ayn rand for you in a novel like this? >> i mean, to me, she was, you know, basically the worst person i could write a book about, which really appealed to me