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We chat with Lucy Tan about her debut novel What We Were Promised, which is out now from Little, Brown!

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What We Were Promised by Lucy Tan

Author Bio

Lucy Tan grew up in New Jersey and has spent much of her adult life in New York and Shanghai. She received her B.A. from New York University and her M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was awarded the 2016 August Derleth Prize. Her fiction has been published in journals such as Asia Literary Review and Ploughshares, where she was winner of the 2015 Emerging Writer's Contest. This is her first novel.

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All July, we're talking about books all about food! Grab a snack, sit down, and have a listen!

Things Mentioned

2018 Newbery Medal: Hello, Universe, written by Erin Entrada Kelly, published by Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins PublishersKamila Shamsie Wins Women's Prize for Fiction for her novel Home FireGolden Man Booker AwardWomen Writers Series, Curated by Kamila Shamsie and Penelope Livley

Books Mentioned

Soy Sauce for Beginners by Kirstin Chen (Amazon Publishing/New Harvest)Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble by Nora Ephron (Vintage)My Life in France by Julia Child (Knopf)Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee (Warner/Hachette)

Guest Picks

Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want by Ruby Tandoh (Serpent's Tail)Big Bones by Laura Dockrill (Hot Key Books)

Currently Reading

Florida by Lauren Groff (Riverhead)Visible Empire by Hannah Pittard (HMH)

About Our Guest

Lauren and the Books | Lauren runs a BookTube channel where she shares her favourites reads as well as making videos with a focus on cruelty free beauty, feminism and plus size fashion. She lives in Kent, in the UK, with her boyfriend David and their cat-daughter Minnie.

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Today we chat with Alice Bolin about her essay collection Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession. 

Books Mentioned

Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

Author Bio

Alice Bolin's nonfiction has appeared in many publications including ELLE, the Awl, theLA Review of Books, Salon, VICE's Broadly, The Paris Review Daily, and The New Yorker's Page-Turner blog. She is an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at the University of Memphis. For more from the author please visit www.alicebolin.com or @alicebolin on Twitter. 

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We discuss Educated by Tara Westover and The Idiot by Elif Batuman. AND we reveal next month's theme!

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Educated by Tara Westover, Narrated by Julia WhelanThe Idiot by Elif Batuman, Narrated by the Author 

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We were thrilled to chat with Gail Honeyman, author of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. Gail shares a little about the origin of the memorable title character and what it's been like publishing her debut novel.

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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Author Bio

Gail Honeyman is a graduate of the universities of Glasgow and Oxford. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine won the Costa First Novel Award and was short-listed for the Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize. This is Honeyman’s debut novel and she lives in Glasgow, Scotland.

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June is audiobook month, and here at Reading Women we're celebrating by featuring some of our favorite listens. AND we're premiering a brand new segment on the podcast!

Things Mentioned

Olga Tokarczuk and Translator Jennifer Croft Win the Man Booker International Prize for the novel FlightsDon't forget to check out Reading Women Month!

Books Mentioned

Back Talkby Danielle Lazarin, Narrated by Reba BuhrThe Book of Unknown Americansby Cristina Henriquez, Narrated by VariousEducated by Tara Westover, Narrated by Julia WhelanThe Idiotby Elif Batuman, Narrated by the Author

Guest Picks

American Fireby Monica Hesse, Narrated by Tanya EbyA Year of Living Danishlyby Helen Russel, Narrated by Lucy Price-Lewis

Currently Reading

Mr. Flood’s Last Resortby Jess KiddBelly Upby Rita Bullwinkel

About Our Guest

Jaclyn Masters is an Australian lawyer who recently relocated to Texas. She reviews books on her blog and YouTube channel, Six Minutes for Me.

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On June 1st, 2016, we published our first episode of Reading Women. Little did we know that two years later we would have reached our 70th episode, including author interviews and bonus content featuring everything from new releases to book recommendations.

Like last year, we're holding a month-long birthday celebration all about books by or about women! Join in by participating in our photo-a-day challenge, entering giveaways, and reading amazing women writers. AND for the first time, we're holding a Reading Women Readathon over on BookTube!

To learn more about how you can celebrate with us through the month of June, check out the Reading Women Month page.

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We have a chat with Meaghan O'Connell about her new memoir And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready. Meaghan discusses the romanticized expectations surrounding birth and early motherhood, the process of she coming to terms with the reality of her own birth experience, and how her feminism interacts with her new life as a mom.

And Now We Have Everything is out now from Little, Brown! Buy a copy using the link below or wherever books are sold!

Books Mentioned

And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready by Meaghan O'Connell

Author Bio

Meaghan O'Connell's writing has appeared in New YorkMagazine, Longreads, and The Billfold, where she was an editor. She lives in Portland, OR, with her husband and young son. 

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We talk about our discussion books for May, The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser and A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, AND we share a special announcement about next month's plans!

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• The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser (Catapult)
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Square Fish)

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We chat with Chibundu Onuzo about her novel Welcome to Lagos, which is out now from Catapult. 

• Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo
• The Spider King's Daughter by Chibundu Onuzo
• Everything Good Will Come by Sefi Atta
• The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso
• Longthroat Memoirs: Soup, Sex, and Nigerian Taste Buds by Yemisi Aribisala

Chibundu Onuzo was born in 1991 in Lagos, Nigeria. She studied history at King's College London and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in history at the same institution. Her short stories have been commissioned by BBC Radio, and she writes for The Guardian, with a special interest in Nigeria.

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