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- Ep. 101 | 2020 Reading Women Award Winners!
Kendra, Sachi, Jaclyn, and Sumaiyya announce the winners of the 2020 Reading Women Award!
- Learn More about the 2021 Reading Women Challenge!
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Things Mentioned
- Find out more about the Reading Women Award!
- Nonfiction Shortlist Episode
- Fiction Shortlist Episode
Nonfiction Shortlist
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf Press)White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad (Catapult)The Dragons, the Giant, the Women by Wayétu Moore (Graywolf Press)Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami (Pantheon)Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong (One World)The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (One World)Fiction Shortlist
The Yield by Tara June Winch (Harper Via)The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (Riverhead)How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang (Riverhead)Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle (University of Kentucky Press)Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (Grove Press)Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa (Atria Books)CONTACT
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28 min - Interview with Meredith McCarroll
In this week’s episode, Kendra chats Meredith McCarroll, the author of Appalachian Reckoning, which is out now from West Virginia University Press.
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Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews!
Things Mentioned
- Interview with Elizabeth Catte
- Interview with Leah Hampton
- Interview with Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
- Black in Appalachia
- Appodlachia
- @ReadAppalachia on Instagram
Books Mentioned
- Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film by Meredith McCarroll
- Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll
Meredith Recommends
- F*ckface and other Stories by Leah Hampton
- Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
- When These Mountains Burn by David Joy
- What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte
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46 min - Introducing Little Stories Everywhere
While you wait for our next episode, we wanted to share Wondery’s newest podcast, Little Stories Everywhere, with you. Little Stories Everywhere is the perfect immersive experience to share by the fireplace with loved ones this holiday season.
Each week, hosts Virginia Madsen and Robbie Daymond will read a different children’s classic - some of the most magical stories ever told, now reimagined with enchanting sound design that is sure to captivate the whole family.
Listen now to a preview of "A Merry Christmas" by Louisa May Alcott from Little Stories Everywhere. While you’re listening, subscribe to Little Stories Everywhere on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or listen ad-free in the Wondery app, by going to http://wondery.fm/readingwomen_LSE.
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7 min - Interview with Leigh Bardugo
In this week’s episode, Kendra and Joce talk to Leigh Bardugo, the author of Ninth House, which is out now in paperback from Flatiron, and The Lives of Saints, which is out from Imprint.
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Lutz Get Down to Business
We are two cousins from opposite ends of the globe who have way too many opinions about figure skating! So we decided to record ourselves talking about anything and everything that has recently gone down in the skating world.
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Books Mentioned
- Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
- Lives of Saints by Leigh Bardugo
Author Bio
Leigh Bardugo is the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House and the creator of the Grishaverse (coming soon to Netflix) which spans the Shadow and Bone Trilogy, the Six of Crows Duology, The Language of Thorns, and the King of Scars duology. Her short stories can be found in multiple anthologies, including Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy. Leigh grew up in Southern California and graduated from Yale University. These days she lives and writes in Los Angeles.
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45 min - Ep. 100 | Reading Women Award | Fiction Shortlist
Kendra, Sachi, Jaclyn, and Sumaiyya announce the 2020 Reading Women Award Fiction Shortlist!
Thank you to The House of Chanel for sponsoring this episode. Find out more at inside.Chanel.com.
Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews!
Things Mentioned
- Reading Women Award Info Page
- Interview with Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
- Interview with C Pam Zhang
- Q&A with Tara June Winch
Books Mentioned
The Yield by Tara June Winch (Harper Via)The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (Riverhead)How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang (Riverhead)Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle (University of Kentucky Press)Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (Grove Press)Against the Lovelace World by Susan Abulhawa (Atria Books)CONTACT
Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected].
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36 min - Ep. 99 | Reading Women Award | Nonfiction Shortlist
Kendra, Sachi, Jaclyn, and Sumaiyya announce the 2020 Reading Women Award Nonfiction Shortlist!
Thank you to The House of Chanel for sponsoring this episode. Find out more at inside.Chanel.com.
Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews!
Things Mentioned
- Reading Women Award Info Page
- Interview with Wayétu Moore
- Sachi and Kendra’s Discussion of Minor Feelings
- Lupita’s Review of The Undocumented Americans
Books Mentioned
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf)White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad (Catapult)The Dragons, the Giant, the Women by Wayétu Moore (Graywolf Press)Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami (Pantheon)Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong (One World)The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (One World)CONTACT
Questions? Comments? Email us [email protected].
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35 min - Interview with Raven Leilani
In the final episode of our series of interviews in partnership with the Miami Book Fair, Kendra talks to Raven Leilani, the author of Luster, which is out now from FSG. Sign up for the Miami Book Fair!
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Books Mentioned- Luster by Raven Leilani
Angela Recommends
- These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card
- Lakewood by Megan Giddings
- Bestiary by K-ming Chang
- Bunny by Mona Awad
Author BioRaven Leilani's debut novel, Luster, is forthcoming from FSG August 2020. Her work has been published in Granta, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Yale Review, Conjunctions, The Cut, and New England Review, among other publications. She completed her MFA at NYU. Represented by Ellen Levine @ Trident. You can reach her at @RavenLeilani
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34 min - Interview with Naima Coster
In the second installment of our series of interviews in partnership with the Miami Book Fair, Kendra talks to Naima Coster, the author of Halsey Street, which is out now from Little A. Sign up for the Miami Book Fair!
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Books Mentioned- Halsey Street by Naima Coster
- What’s Mine is Yours by Naima Coster
Naima Recommends
- Want by Lynn Steger Strong
- The Mothers by Brit Bennett
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Author BioNaima Coster is the author of two novels. Her debut, Halsey Street, was a finalist for the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and longlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. It was recommended as a must-read by People, Essence, BitchMedia, Well-Read Black Girl, The Skimm, and the Brooklyn Public Library among others. Her forthcoming novel, What’s Mine and Yours, will be published in March 2021.
Naima’s stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Rumpus, Aster(ix), Kweli, The Paris Review Daily, The Cut, The Sunday Times, and elsewhere. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree for 2020.
Naima tweets as @zafatista and writes the newsletter, Bloom How You Must. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
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33 min - Interview with K-Ming Chang
To kick off a series of interviews in partnership with the Miami Book Fair, Kendra talks to K-Ming Chang, the author of Bestiary, which is out now from One World. Sign up for the Miami Book Fair!
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Books Mentioned
- Bestiary by K-Ming Chang
K-Ming Recommends
Ghost Forrest by Pik-Shuen Fung- The Black Cathedral by Marcial Gala, Translated by Anna Kiushner
- Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen by Marilyn Chin
- The White Book by Han King
Author Bio
K-Ming Chang / 張欣明 is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the debut novel BESTIARY (One World/Random House, 2020), which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her micro-chapbook BONE HOUSE, a queer retelling of Wuthering Heights, is forthcoming from Bull City Press’ INCH series in 2021, and she is currently working on a collection of short stories.
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40 min - Interview with Angela Chen
Kendra talks to Angela Chen, the author of Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex, which is out now from Beacon Press.
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Books Mentioned- Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen
Angela Recommends
The Invisible Orientation by Julie Sondra DeckerLoveless by Alice OsemanAsexual Erotics by Ela PrzybloAsexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives edited by Karli June Cerankowski and Megan MilksAuthor: Angela Chen Website | Twitter | Buy the Book
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