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Episode #19: Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, by Mary McCarthy


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Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss MEMORIES OF A CATHOLIC GIRLHOOD by Mary McCarthy and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss A MERCY by Toni Morrison. We would love to have you read along with us, and listen in on our conversation coming to you in December.

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Books mentioned:

  • Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
  • Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
  • The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic
  • The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
  • Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy 1949-1975 by Mary McCarthy and Hannah Arendt
  • The Group by Mary McCarthy
  • The Company She Keeps by Mary McCarthy
  • The Stones of Florence by Mary McCarthy
  • Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion by Michelle Dean
  • Lojman by Ebru Ojen, translated by Aron Aji and Selin Gökçesu
  • The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Translated by Lara Vergnaud
  • The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing
  • Crook O'Lune by E.C.R. Lorac
  • Tone by Sofia Samatar and Kate Zambreno
  • The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut
  • Bats in the Belfry by E.C.R. Lorac
  • Gibbons, or One Bloody Thing After Another by James Morrison
  • A Mercy by Toni Morrison

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