Julia and Victoria imagine new stories for the future.

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Show Notes:

You’ve Got Mail (film)

Harry & Meghan (docu series on Netflix)

Indigo by RM (album)

SOS by SZA (album)

Heaven’s Gate (podcast)

Julia and Victoria talk inevitability and unreliable narrators in The Story of the Lost Child and celebrate finishing Elena Ferrante’s iconic Neapolitan series. They try and fail to solve the unsolvable ending.

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Mentioned in this episode:

The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante

In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante

The Lying Life of Adults on Netflix

The Dave Chang Show (podcast)

10 Things I Hate About You

Recommendations:

Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Gilead by Marilyn Robinson

Housekeeping by Marilyn Robinson

Currently Obsessed:

Forgive Me by BoA

The Allusionist podcast

Should I Quit podcast

It’s finally happening. We are going to finish our discussion of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series! To catch you up on the conversations about books 1-3, we’ll be re-releasing those episodes over the next few weeks. Stay tuned for the discussion of book 4, and our wrap up of the entire series coming your way NEXT WEEK!

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Link to original show notes.

Grab a copy of Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante and support the show!

It’s finally happening. We are going to finish our discussion of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series! To catch you up on the conversations about books 1-3, we’ll be re-releasing those episodes over the next few weeks. Stay tuned for the discussion of book 4, and our wrap up of the entire series coming your way in a couple of weeks.

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Link to original show notes.

Grab a copy of The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante and support the show!

It’s finally happening. We are going to finish our discussion of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series! To catch you up on the conversations about books 1-3, we’ll be re-releasing those episodes over the next few weeks. Stay tuned for the discussion of book 4, and our wrap up of the entire series coming your way next month.

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Grab a copy of My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante and support the show!

Julia and Victoria acknowledge that they do not always know what is going on while diving headfirst into the incredible debut poetry collection from Ocean Vuong: Night Sky With Exit Wounds.

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Mentioned in This Episode:

Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

War baby: the amazing story of Ocean Vuong, former refugee and prize-winning poet (The Guardian)

Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

Only Murders in the Building 

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Schindler’s List (Movie)

Recommendations:

Crush by Richard Siken

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

Currently Obsessed:

League of Their Own (TV Show)

Interview With The Vampire (TV Show)

Paper Girls (TV Show)

Being Funny in a Foreign Language by The 1975

Spelling the Tea: The Vampire Tea Room Magical Mysteries by Erin Johnson

Lord Byron’s Letters of the Future

Julia and Victoria needed to scream about how much they loved crying over the romantic, angsty sci-fi novella This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, so now it is an episode.

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Mentioned in this Episode:

Wingspan Board Game

The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone

The bird meme from Amal’s Twitter: (original comic by @FalseKnees

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Doctor Who

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

“Blue-da-ba-dee” by Eiffel 65

Recommendations:

Good Omens by Neil Gaimen and Terry Pratchett

Julia’s “Becoming Blue” playlist

Travel Light by Naomi Mitcheson

Currently Obsessed:

League of Their Own on Amazon Prime

Hold the Girl by Rina Sawayama

Julia and Victoria explore the Dark Ages with writer, historian, and former professor Rebecca Stott. They discuss Rebecca’s new book Dark Earth: about two sisters who run away to a ruined Roman city in 6th century Britain. They talk genre, archaeology, breaking boundaries, and Julia gets very excited about swords.

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Follow Rebecca Stott:

Website: https://www.rebeccastott.co.uk/ 

Twitter: @RebeccaStott64

Listen to her radio broadcasts for BBC Radio Four’s A Point of View

Mentioned in this Episode:

The Secret Island by Enid Blyton

“In the Waiting Room” by Elizabeth Bishop

Recommendations:

Cwen by Bryce Gibby

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

A Tale For the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

Circe by Madeline Miller

Currently Obsessed:

Elephant’s Breath paint by Farrow and Ball

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Only Murders In the Building on Hulu

Marchita by Silvana Estrada

Julia and Victoria talk with author Evan James Sheldon about his new book of gloriously weird flash fiction, Children and Their Cages, and his creative process. Julia learns that flash fiction is not, in fact, a story written very fast.

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Mentioned in this Episode

Follow Evan James Sheldon’s writing on evanjamessheldon.com and Twitter @EvanJamesSheld1. Check out his latest book Children & Their Cages available online at Barnes & Noble.

The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan

“On Writing and the Business of Writing” by Carmen Maria Machado

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

"Fairy Tale is Form, Form is Fairy Tale" by Kate Bernheimer

“For Everyone Who's Still Fucked Up Over That Story About The Girl With The Ribbon Around Her Neck” by Lauren Yapalater (Buzzfeed)

Recommendations:

The Complete Stories of Leonore Carrington by Leonora Carrington, introduction by   Kathryn Davis

“The Husband Stitch” by Carmen Maria Machado

A Luminous Republic by Andrés Barba 

The Iliac Crest by Christina Riviera Garza

The Summer Book by Tov Jansson

Sin Eaters:Stories by Caleb Tankersley

Friday Black by Nana Kwameh Adjei-Brenyah

Currently Obsessed:

Charco Press

Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber

The Making Of by Brecht Evans

Julia finds herself of an age somewhere between Jane Eyre and Miss Marple, and she’s asking herself: Does she have money and/or prospects? Remains to be seen.