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S12:Ep256 - The Husbands with Guest Holly Gramazio + National Poetry Month - 4/23/25


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You can find Holly Gramazio at her website https://www.hollygramazio.net/ or on IG at holly_gramazio

 

When we first heard the premise of Holly Gramazio’s novel The Husbands, we were intrigued. A woman’s husband goes up to the attic to retrieve something and down comes…a different husband. Wouldn’t we all sometimes like to exchange the husband we have for a better, newer, or just different model? Holly turned this idea into a novel that is both funny and thoughtfully considered. It may not, in fact, be such a great thing to have an endless supply of potential husbands so easy to exchange.  Her book has been optioned by Apple Plus for a limited series and I just saw that Juno Temple, the actress who played Keeley in the Ted Lasso series, is slated to play the starring role.

 

And because it is April, and April is National Poetry Month, we’re discussing books related to poets. Not everyone loves poetry, but these books aren’t actually poetry–so you can still partake of poetry month. They are historical fiction, memoirs, essays, and children’s books written by or inspired by poets. 

 

Books Mentioned in This Episode:

 

1- The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

 
2- Lakewood by Megan Giddings
 
3- I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour
 
4- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
 
 
5- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
 
 
6- The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay
 
 
7- Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line by Elizabeth Lovett
 
 
8- Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin
 
 
9-  A Five Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover  Chelsea @2_girls_bookin_it - The Endless Fall by Emmerson Hoyt
 
 
10- The Swan's Nest by Laura Mcneal
 
 
11- You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
 
 
12- Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethaway
 
 
13- Emily's House by Amy Belding Brown
 
 
14- Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome
 
 
15- Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
 
 
16- World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
 
 
17- The Poet's Dog by Patricia McLachlan
 

 

Media mentioned--

1- Severance (Apple+, 2022 - Present)

 

2- Reduced Shakespeare Company--https://www.reducedshakespeare.com

 

3- Saint X (Hulu, 2023)

 

 



 

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