A Dating Show Alum Who Still Believes In Love

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! The winning bookstore Greedy Reads in Baltimore, MD 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