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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October 21, 2020Ep. 98 | Say Hello and If I Had Your Face
To close out October’s theme, Kendra and Sumaiyya discuss Say Hello by Carly Findlay and If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha.
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Books Mentioned
Say Hello by Carly Findlay
If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
Further Reading
Winter in Sokcho by Elise Shua Dusapin, Translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins
Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism edited by Nikki Khanna
Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture by Emma Dabiri
Modesty: A Fashion Paradox by Hafsa Lodhi
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

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October 14, 2020Interview with Cinelle Barnes
Kendra talks to Cinelle Barnes, the editor of A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of Color on the New South, which is out now from Hub City Press.
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Books Mentioned
A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-one Writers of Color on the New South edited by Cinelle Barnes
Cinelle Recommends
Jesmyn Ward
Karen Good Marable
Crystal Wilkinson
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
The Bitter Southerner
Scalawag

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October 07, 2020Ep. 97 | Beauty Privilege
Kendra, Sumaiyya, and Joce talk about books around October’s theme, Beauty Privilege!
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Things Mentioned
2020 Booker Shortlist Announced
JCB Longlist
National Book Award Longlists
National Book Foundation 5 Under 35
Books Mentioned
My Past is a Foreign Country by Zeba Talkhani
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc
If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
Say Hello by Carly Findlay
Miss Meteor by Tehlor Kay Mejia and Anna-Marie McLemore
One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
Currently Reading
The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland

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September 30, 2020Interview with Julianne Clancy, Assistant Director of Marketing with Knopf
Kendra talks to Julianne Clancy, an Assistant Marketing Director with Knopf! Julianne gives listeners a behind-the-scenes look at book marketing and answers listeners’ FAQs!
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Knopf Doubleday’s Website
Guest Bio
Julianne Clancy is an Assistant Director of Marketing with Knopf, Pantheon, and Schocken. Prior to working with Knopf, she held positions within the marketing, copywriting, and production departments of Berkley, NAL, and Penguin Young Readers, as well as working as a freelance copywriter for numerous other publishers. Outside of her publishing career, Julianne is an amateur chef, Tar Heel alum, Nintendo aficionado, distance runner, wife, mother, kitty-mom, and certified Master of Horror, having received her M.Phil in Popular Literature from Trinity College Dublin, with a thesis on Satanic horror. She is a contributor in the recently published From Bayou to Abyss: Examining John Constantine, Hellblazer, from the Sequart Organization.
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September 23, 2020Interview with Vicki Laveau-Harvie
Kendra talks to Vicki Laveau-Harvie about her memoir, The Erratics, which is out now from Knopf.
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Books Mentioned
The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie
Vicki Recommends
A Plea for Eros by Siri Hustvedt
The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt
Between You and Me by Mary Norris
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

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September 16, 2020Ep. 96 | About Us and Growing Up African in Australia
To close out September, Kendra and Jaclyndiscuss About Us and Growing Up African in Australia edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke.
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Things Mentioned
Patreon Episode
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Books Mentioned
Growing Up African in Australia edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke
About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times edited Peter Catapano and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Further Reading
New Australian Fiction 2020 edited by Rebecca Starford
Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy edited by Kelly Jensen
Collisions: Fictions of the Future edited by Leah Jing McIntosh, Cher Tan, Adalya Nash Hussein and Hassan Abul (forthcoming November 2020)
LGBTQ Poetry and Fiction from Appalachia edited by Jeff Mann and Julia Watts

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September 09, 2020Interview with Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
Kendra talks to Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle about her debut novel, Even As We Breathe, which is out now from University of Kentucky Press.
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Books Mentioned
Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
Morgan Recommends
Crooked Hallelujah by Kelly Jo Ford
The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
When These Mountains Burn by David Joy
F*ckface and Other Stories by Leah Hampton

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September 02, 2020Ep. 95 | Anthologies
For September’s theme, Kendra, Jaclyn, and special guest Dani Roulette recommend anthologies!
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Things Mentioned
2020 Booker Longlist Announced
International Booker Prize Winner Announced
Nakkiah Lui has launched a publishing imprint called JOAN with Allen and Unwin
Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction Shortlist Announced
Teela Reid (co-founder of @blackfulla_bookclub on IG) won the Daisy Utemorrah Award for her manuscript Our Matriarchs Matter
Past Coverage
A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home edited by Nicole Chung and Mensah Demary
Interview with Nicole Chung
Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism edited by Nikki Khanna
Ep. 87 | API Heritage Month: Nonfiction
Black Marks on the White Page edited by Witi Ihimaera and Tina Makereti
Ep. 73 | Indigenous Women Writers from Around the World
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia edited by Dr. Anita Heiss
Ep. 74 | An American Sunrise and Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
It’s Not About the Burqa edited by Miriam Khan
Ep. 63 | Ramadan Reading
Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World edited by Zahra Hankir
Ep. 76.5 | Honorable Mentions
Books Mentioned
Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power Today edited by Allison Whittaker
Video of Author Readings
What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence edited by Michele Filgate
Growing Up African in Australia edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke
About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times edited Peter Catapano and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
This Place: 150 Years Retold
Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water edited by Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair and Warren Cariou
Currently Reading
A Measure of Belonging: Writers of Color on the New American South ed by Cinelle Barnes
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib

About Our Guest
Danielle Roulette is Anishinaabeg from Dog Creek First Nation. She is a literary blogger and an aspiring writer living on the shores of Lake Winnipeg.
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August 26, 2020Ep. 94 | Breasts and Eggs and The Memory Police
To close out August, Kendra and Sachi discuss The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa and Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami.
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Things Mentioned
Women in Translation Month
The Translators Aloud Project
Q&A with Deborah Smith
Interview with Tina Kover
Books Mentioned
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, Translated by Stephen Snyder
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami, Translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd
Further Reading
Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami, Translated by Allison Markin Powell
The Court Dancer by Kyung-sook Shin, Translated by Anton Hur
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, Translated by Megan Backus
Human Acts by Han Kang, Translated by Deborah Smith

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August 19, 2020Ep. 93.5 | Weekend of Words Live Show with the Shuffle Collective
As a special episode, here is a live show that Kendra and Jaclyn recorded at the Weekend of Words virtual book festival this spring. The episode is only lightly edited to give listeners the feel of really being there as the episode was recorded. A special thanks to the Shuffle Collective who hosted this event.
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Weekend of Words Live Show
Learn more about the Shuffle Collective
Things Mentioned
List of This Year’s Author Interviews
Caribbean Heritage Month Episode
Books Mentioned
A Burning by Megha Majumdar
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deep Anappara
Conjure Women by Afia Atakora
The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah
Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi Abraham
Saltwater by Jessica Andrews
The Yield by Tara June June
When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy

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