This week on Getting Literate, Katie and Julia travel back (but also forward?) to the Grecian Pantheon with Rachel Smythe’s Lore Olympus! The girls discuss the thin line between bimbo and baby, translating something from internet to page, and the many ways that graphic novels lend themselves to powerful story telling. Katie thinks we need to collectively learn how to write bimbos with depth, and Julia dives into how much better equipped graphic novels are for handling violence ethically. PLUS: Scholastic Book Fairs, Scott Pilgrim, and Mr Bean. As always, there's definitely spoilers, so proceed with caution. Also, a content warning for some discussions of sexual assault. 

Violence, Politics, and the Graphic Novel  that Julia mentions

The tweet from glamdemon2004 (Serena Shahidi) that Katie mentions

This week's book was Lore Olympus, by Rachel Smythe. More info at https://linktr.ee/loreolympusofficial

Intro and outro music by Julia M.

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