Reading Women

We talk with Rebecca Traister about her latest book Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger. Rebecca Traister’s book All the Single Ladies won the 2016 Reading Women Award for nonfiction. Find the full version of the show notes for this episode on our website.

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Books Mentioned

Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger by Rebecca TraisterRebecca Recommends

Eloquent Rage: A Black feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger by Soraya Chemaly

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Author Bio

REBECCA TRAISTER is writer at large for New York magazine and a contributing editor at Elle. A National Magazine Award finalist, she has written about women in politics, media, and entertainment from a feminist perspective for The New Republic and Salon and has also contributed to The Nation, The New York Observer, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vogue, Glamour and Marie Claire. She is the author of All the Single Ladies and the award-winning Big Girls Don’t Cry. She lives in New York with her family.

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We are happy to announce the fiction and nonfiction winners of the 2018 Reading Women Award! You can find more info about the Reading Women Award here. You can find a full version of our show notes over on our website.

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Past Winners

2016

Shelter by Jung Yun (Interview with Jung Yun)

All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister

2017

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (Interview with Min Jin Lee)

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Winners!

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (Random House)

All the Names They Used for God by Anjali Sachdeva (Spiegel & Grau)

Interview with Anjali

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We are happy to announce our nonfiction shortlist for the 2018 Reading Women Award! The winners of both the fiction and nonfiction categories will be announced December 5th. You can find more info about the Reading Women Award here.

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Fiction Shortlist

Nonfiction Shortlist

All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung (Catapult)

Q&A with Nicole

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf)

Interview with Maggie

Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot (Counterpoint)

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (Random House)

Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Irvin Painter (Counterpoint)

Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir by Cinelle Barnes (Little A)

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We talk with Natalia Sylvester, author of the Everyone Knows You Go, which is out now from Little A! Find the full version of this episode's show notes over on our website.

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Books Mentioned

Everyone Knows You Go Home by Natalia SylvesterNatalia Recommends

I’m Not Missing by Carrie Fountain

The Caregiver by Samuel Park

Exclusively Yours by Nadine Gonzalez 

Everyday People: The Color of Life—A Short Story Anthology edited by Jennifer Baker

Author Bio

Born in Lima, Peru, Natalia Sylvester came to the US at age four and grew up in Florida and the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. She earned her BA in creative writing from the University of Miami, is a faculty member of the low-residency MFA program at Regis University, and works as a freelance writer in Austin. Her work has appeared in Bustle, Catapult, Electric Literature, Latina magazine, and the Austin American-Statesman. Natalia’s first novel, Chasing the Sun, was named the Best Debut Book of 2014 by Latinidad. Her latest novel, Everyone Knows You Go Home, won an International Latino Book Award and has been named one of the Best Books of 2018 by Real Simple magazine.

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We are happy to announce our fiction shortlist for the 2018 Reading Women Award! The nonfiction shortlist will be announced November 21st, and the winners will be announced December 4th. You can find more info about the Reading Women Award here.

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Fiction Shortlist

A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza (SJP for Hogarth)

If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim (William Morrow)

Interview with Crystal

Everyone Knows You Go Home by Natalia Sylvester (Little A)

Interview with Natalia

Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman (Small Beer Press)

Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Doubleday)

Interview with Ingrid

All the Names They Used for God by Anjali Sachdeva (Spiegel & Grau)

Interview with Anjali

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We’ve teamed up with Lauren and Alicia from the Deviant Women podcast to bring you a very special Halloween episode all about the queen of horror: Shirley Jackson. Lauren and Alicia tell us a little bit about Jackson’s background, we discuss Jackson’s short story “The Lottery,” and we chat about the new The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix.

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Books Mentioned

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Stayed in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

About

We are Alicia and Lauren, the hosts of Deviant Women. Every fortnight we discuss a different ‘deviant’ woman from history, fiction, mythology and the contemporary world: those who aren’t afraid to break the rules, to subvert the system, to explore, to seek and to challenge the status quo.

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We talk with Leesa Cross-Smith, author of the Whiskey & Ribbons, which is out now from Hub City Press! You can find the full show notes to this episode over on our website.

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Books Mentioned

Whiskey and Ribbons by Leesa Cross-Smith

Author Bio

Leesa Cross-Smith is a homemaker and the author of Whiskey & Ribbons (Hub City Press, 2018), Every Kiss A War (Mojave River Press, 2014), and the forthcoming So We Can Glow (Grand Central Publishing, 2020) and This Close To Okay (Grand Central Publishing, 2021). Her debut novel Whiskey & Ribbons was longlisted for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Every Kiss A War was a finalist for both the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction (2012) and the Iowa Short Fiction Award (2012). Her work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Oxford American, Best Small Fictions, and many others. Find more @ LeesaCrossSmith.com.

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For our month about memoirs, we discuss A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza and Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

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Books Mentioned

A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza 

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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We talk with Ingrid Rojas Contreras, author of the Fruit of the Drunken Tree, which is out now from Doubleday!

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Books Mentioned

Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Ingrid Recommends

Vida and Veins of the Ocean by Patricia Engel (Check our discussion episode about Veins of the Ocean here.)

The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon

A River of Stars by Vanessa Hua

If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim (Check our Interview with Crystal Hana Kim here.)

The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling

All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung

Author Bio

Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Guernica, and Huffington Post, among others. She has received fellowships and awards from The Missouri Review, Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, VONA, Hedgebrook, The Camargo Foundation, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. She is the book columnist for KQED Arts, the Bay Area's NPR affiliate.ram.

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For October, we're talking about books around theme of Fractured Fairytales!

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