Welcome to Episode 5! This episode is about a mish-mash of genres, so I brought on a hella knowledgable bookseller who can handsell anything to help me! Hannah Oliver Depp is a bookseller and the Merchandise Display Manager at Politics & Prose bookstore in Washington, DC. as well as a contributor to Book Riot and LitHub. She teaches classes at Politics & Prose on re-imaginings of archetypal characters, from King Arthur to Sherlock Holmes. Her job allows her to combine her two passions: psychoanalyzing dead white guys and putting diverse stories into their bewildered descendants hands. If you’re in the DC area come to the Read Harder book club at Upshur St Books where she and fellow rioters gather once a month to drink wine and talk all things bookish. She can be found everywhere online as @oliverdepp.

This episode is sponsored by Penguin Random House Audio and ROOM the movie.

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Books Discussed on the Show!

Dinner: A Love Story by Jenny Rosenstrach

Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl

Blood Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton

Make the Bread, Buy The Butter by Jennifer Reese

When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams

Diving Belles by Lucy Wood

Bossypants by Tina Fey

Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher

Assassination Vacation or Lafeyette in the Semi-United States by Sarah Vowell

Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows

The Illusion of Separateness by Simon Van Booy

A Train in Winter by Caroline Moorehead

Lovers at the Chamelion Club by Fancine Prose 

And the Show Went On by Alan Riding

Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

On Immunity by Eula Biss

Unspeakable by Meghan Daum

We Should All Be Feminist by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Informed Air by Muriel Spark

Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed

The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying by Carol Leifer

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott 

The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson

Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Oreo by Fran Ross

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