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This episode is sponsored by THE LIGHTEST OBJECT IN THE UNIVERSE by Kimi Eisele, now in paperback from Algonquin Books; Dark August by Harper Publishing; and Hey YA, Book Riot’s own podcast about all things young adult lit.
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BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED:
Black Writers’ Guild calls for sweeping change in UK publishing
Understanding Comics : The Invisible Art & Making Comics by Scott McCloud
How Pictures Work by Molly Bang
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy : A Retelling of Little Women by Rey Terciero and Bre Indigo
The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado, illustrated by Dani
Freedom Hospital : A Syrian Story by Hamid Sulaiman, trans Francesca Barrie
Bingo Love by Tee Franklin
Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
Bites of Terror by Cuddles and Rage
One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg
Graphic novels for people who like literary fiction
Bunny by Mona Awad
Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
The Year Of The Runaways by Sanjeev Sahota
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Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What are some newly translated books? And, what are you reading now?
This episode is sponsored by The Secret Women from Amistad Books, TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations, Book Riot’s personalized reading recommendation service, which now has gifting!, and the Books and Boba podcast.
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BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED:
Book workers are striking today in a day of solidarity against racist violence and discrimination.
A list of online Black owned bookstores to support.
Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante which was the winner of the Trans category.
Fracture by Andrés Neuman, translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia
Magnetized by Carlos Busqued translated by Samuel Rutter
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Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Hadriana in All My Dreams by Renee Depestre, translated by Kaima L. Glover
Celestial Bodies by Joka Alharthi, translated by Marilyn Booth
Pillars of Salt by Fadia Faqir [edit: this book was not translated from its original Arabic into English, but rather published simultaneously in Arabic and English]
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal el Saadawi
50 Must Read Books by women in translation
The Garden of Monsters by Lorenza Pieri, translated by Liesl Schillinger
Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin
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Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What was it like to adapt Shirley Jackson to film? And, what are you reading now?
This episode contains a really special interview with Sarah Gubbins, screenwriter of the new release film adaptation, Shirley.
This episode is sponsored by On LightHouses, The Yield, and Shelf Addiction.
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BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED:
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“The First Lines of Emails I’ve Received While Quarantining” by Jessica Salfia
Trailer of Shirley, adapted from Shirley: A Novel by Sarah Scarf Merrell
Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson
“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
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Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter.
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Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What are some of the best and worst doorstopper books? And, what are you reading now?
This episode is sponsored by Lit Stitch: 25 Cross-Stitch Patterns for Book Lovers, made by Book Riot and Abrams, TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes, and The Reading Women podcast.
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BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED:
The books that could flourish in this pandemic era from the BBC
Where next for VIRTUAL LITERATURE?
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
The Swan Gondola by Timothy Schaffert
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Lord Of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
A Little Life by Hanya Yanigihara
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Black Leopard, Red Wolf Marlon James.
Harlem Godfather: The Rap on My Husband, Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson
Night And Day by Virginia Woolf
“In the Orchard” by Virginia Woolf
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Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What are some of the best crossover hits? And, what are you reading now?
This episode is sponsored by Flatiron Books, publisher of The Paris Hours by Alex George, Libro.FM, and The Reading Women podcast.
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BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED:
“Majority of authors ‘hear’ their characters speak, finds study” by Alison Flood
The Comedy Women in Print Prize 2020 Longlist
The Comedy Women in Print Twitter page
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide: A graphic guide to lesbian and queer history 1950-2020 by Kate Charlesworth
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith
Life: An Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet
Margot & Me by Juno Dawson
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Holes by Louis Sachar
Guenevere by Rosalind Miles
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by Anne Rice
A Little Love Song by Michelle Magorian
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr
Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
The Madeline Treasury by Ludwig Bemmelmans
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Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What are the best books of literary nonfiction? What IS literary nonfiction? And, what are you reading now?
This episode is sponsored by Flatiron Books, publisher of The Paris Hours by Alex George and The Reading Women podcast.
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BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED:
The 2020 International Booker Prize Shortlist is Mostly Women Again
An interview by Juliet Jacques with McKenzie Wark on her new book Reverse Cowgirl
Reverse Cowgirl by McKenzie Wark
Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives by Julia Watson and Sidonie Smith
Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir by Lauren Slater
Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
Let Me Clear My Throat by Elena Passarello
On Immunity: An Inocuation by Eula Biss
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Fun Home: A Family Tragicoic by Alison Bechdel.
My Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-Neel
Verge by Lidia Yuknavitch
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson
Annnnd The Sappho Bot of Twitter!
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Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What are the books of literary fiction that changed your life? And, what are you reading now?
This episode is sponsored by Shelf Addiction podcast, Catapult, and The Malevolent Volume by Justin Phillip Reed, published by Coffee House Press.
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BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED:
"Book sales surge as self-isolating readers stock up on ‘bucket list’ novels" in The Guardian
What our contagion fables are REALLY about in The New Yorker, by Jill Lepore
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
Beloved and Paradise by Toni Morrison
Roots by Alex Haley
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
A Void (La Disparation) by Georges Perec
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne
She Came to Stay (L'Invitee) by Simone de Beauvoir
Ducks Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
"The Mermaid in the Tree" by Timothy Schaffert, in My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me edited by Kate Bernheimer
Wow, No Thank You and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
"Inventory" in Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
Unflattening by Nick Sousanis
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Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer, and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer.
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Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What's the difference between literary fiction and genre fiction? Is one "better" than the other? And, what are you reading?
This episode is sponsored by The Winemaker's Wife, Libro FM, and TBR: Tailored Book Recommedations.
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BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED:
"What It’s Like to Try to Promote a Book in the Middle of a Pandemic" by Amy Klein
"The Case for Reading Fiction" by Christine Seifert
Tillerman series by Cynthia Voigt
Cormac McCarthy
You can find your hosts here:
Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter.
Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer.
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Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? Where do you find the books that you read? How do you decide what to read next? And, what are you reading?
This episode is sponsored by Libro FM, Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community, and TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations.
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BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED:
“On the Paradoxes of Toni Morrison’s Catholicism” by Nick Ripatrazone
“The Hottest New Literary Genre is Doomer Lit” by Kate Knibbs
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Women’s Prize Shortlist just announced
Tailored Book Recommendations from Book Riot
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Carmen Maria Machado’s list of recommendations
Tender by Sofia Samatar
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
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Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin
Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg
You can find your hosts here:
Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter.
Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer.
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Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? How does Director Autumn de Wilde feel about her new film adaptation of Emma? And, what are you reading?
This episode is sponsored by Get Booked: Handsell, Libro FM, and Book Marks, A customizable journal to record your reading life!
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BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED:
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“The Barbellion Prize: A New Award for Disabled Writers” by Margaret Kingsbury
Emma by Jane Austen
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Animal Farm by Odyr
“How the CIA brought Animal Farm to the screen” by Martin Chilton
You can find your hosts here:
Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter.
Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer.
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