Reading Women

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Reading Women releases new episodes every Wednesday. Each month features two episodes on the same theme—one highlighting a range of titles and one discussing two titles more in depth—and two author in... more

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March 25, 2020 Interview with Emily St. John Mandel
Kendra talks to Emily St. John Mandel, the author of The Glass Hotel, which is out now from Knopf.
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March 18, 2020Ep. 84 | These Truths and The Warmth of Other Suns
To close out our month on Women in History, Kendra and Jaclyn discuss These Truths by Jill Lepore and The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson.
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Books Mentioned
These Truths by Jill Lepore
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The Knowledge Solution: Australia History: What Place Does History Have in a Post-Truth World? edited by Anna Clark
The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
She Came To Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
The ReVisioning History Series
A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski
A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen
An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
A Black Woman's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
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March 11, 2020Interview with Abi Daré
Kendra talks to Abi Daré, the author of The Girl with the Louding Voice, which is out now from Dutton.
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Books Mentioned
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
Abi Recommends
Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀̀
Our Q&A with Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀̀
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

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March 04, 2020Ep. 83 | Women in History!
For March’s theme, Kendra, Jaclyn, and Bree discuss book about women in history.
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Things Mentioned
The Stella Prize Longlist
“Romance Novels Are Feminist” TedTalk
Books Mentioned
Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia by Samia Khatun
These Truths by Jill Lepore
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman
Scandal Takes the Stage by Eva Leigh
Temporary Wife Temptation by Jayci Lee
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Blueberries by Ellena Savage
Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Colette Goldbach

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February 26, 2020Interview with Nicole Chung
Kendra talks to Nicole Chung, the Editor in Chief of Catapult Magazine and one of the co-editors of A Map Is Only One Story, which is out now from Catapult.
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Books Mentioned
Catapult Magazine
A Map Is Only One Story edited by Nicole Chung and Mensah Demary
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung

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February 19, 2020Ep. 82 | Afrofuturism and Parable of the Sower
To close out our month on Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism, Kendra, Sachi, and Bezi discuss Afrofuturism and Parable of the Sower.
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Things Mentioned
Afrofuturism Discussion Page for the Reading Women Challenge
Nnedi Okorafor’s TED Talk
Books Mentioned
Afrofuturism by Ytasha L. Womack
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

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February 12, 2020Interview with Kiley Reid
Kendra talks to Kiley Reid about her debut novel, Such a Fun Age, which is out now from Putnam.
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Books Mentioned
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Sarah Recommends
Long Bright River by Liz Moore
Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence by Rachel Sherman
The Nanny by Leila Slimani
Jillian by Halle Butler
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

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February 05, 2020Ep. 81 | Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism
For February’s theme, Kendra, Sachi, and new Reading Women contributor Bezi discuss Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism! Get 20% off of our book blind dates over in our store!
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Things Mentioned
'Binti' Adaptation From Michael Ellenberg in the Works at Hulu
‘Wild Seed’ Drama Series Based On Sci-Fi Book In Works At Amazon From Viola Davis & Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions
Nnedi Okorafor’s Definition of Africanfuturism
Q&A with Bethany C. Morrow
Books Mentioned
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
Afrofuturism by Ytasha L. Womack
The Chaos by Nalo Hopkinson
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
How Long ‘Til Back Future Month by N.K. Jemisin
Further Reading
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora edited by Sheree Thomas
MEM by Bethany C Morrow
Temper by Nicky Drayden

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January 29, 2020Interview with Tishani Doshi
Kendra talks to Tishani Doshi about her latest novel, Small Days and Nights, which is out now from W.W. Norton.
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Books Mentioned
Small Days and Nights by Tishani Doshi
Sarah Recommends
Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy

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January 22, 2020Ep. 80 | Most Anticipated Books of 2020 Pt. 1
Kendra and Joce talk about their most anticipated books for the first half of 2020.
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Books Mentioned
The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao (Atria, Jan. 21st)
The Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg (Hachette. Jan. 21st)
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong (One World, Feb. 24th)
Witches of Ash and Ruin by E Latimer (Freeform, March 3rd)
So We Can Glow by Leesa Cross-Smith (Grand Central Publishing, March 10th)
Conjure Women by Afia Atakora (Random House, March 17th)
Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby (Vintage, March 31st)
You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat (Catapult, June 9th)

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