The Bookstore

In this episode Becca and Corinne discuss what bums them out about the Canon of Western Literature and how it could be improved. They shoot the Canon out of a cannon. I've been trying to make that joke in one way or another since we recorded this thing, and honestly, it's not even a good joke and I kind of regret it now. Also! An offer for a bad-sexy Valentine's Day postcard.

Next week we discuss Thi Bui's The Best We Could Do. Read it and listen!

In this episode Becca and Corinne discuss what bums them out about the Canon of Western Literature and how it could be improved. They shoot the Canon out of a cannon. I've been trying to make that joke in one way or another since we recorded this thing, and honestly, it's not even a good joke and I kind of regret it now. Also! An offer for a bad-sexy Valentine's Day postcard.

Next week we discuss Thi Bui's The Best We Could Do. Read it and listen!

Get prepared to hear us use our English degrees when we say "textual support" 1,000 times, friends. This week we discuss Louise Erdrich's misguided foray into the world of speculative fertility fiction with Future Home of the Living God. We gave it a go and did not get it! As always remember this is a book club like discussion, SPOILERS ABOUND.

Our next discussion will be about Thi Bui's 2017 graphic memoir The Best We Could Do. So go read it!

We love you and we're in love with you.

Get prepared to hear us use our English degrees when we say "textual support" 1,000 times, friends. This week we discuss Louise Erdrich's misguided foray into the world of speculative fertility fiction with Future Home of the Living God. We gave it a go and did not get it! As always remember this is a book club like discussion: SPOILERS ABOUND.

Our next discussion will be about Thi Bui's 2017 graphic memoir The Best We Could Do. So go read it!

We love you and we're in love with you.

Since scandals were so much fun, we thought we'd try our hand at talking literary feuds! It's sort of like an episode of Ryan Murphy's Feud, but in a podcast and about people who write books instead of a TV show about glamorous actresses.

Next week we will be discussing Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich.

Since scandals were so much fun, we thought we'd try our hand at talking literary feuds! It's sort of like an episode of Ryan Murphy's Feud, but in a podcast and about people who write books instead of a TV show about glamorous actresses.

Next week we will be discussing Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich.

Citing sources:

Seeing Mary Plain. The New York Times.

Cavett, Dick. Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and Me. The New Yorker.

Armistead, Claire. Richard Ford should swallow his pride over Colson Whitehead's bad review. The Guardian.

Massara, Kathleen. 10 Notorious Literary Spats. Flavorwire.

Happy New Year! We're kicking 2018 off by chatting about Jackie Collins' catty bonkbuster Hollywood Wives. Content Warning! This episode talks about sex. Like a lot, because we're talking about a book by Jackie Collins. And it's not even good sex.

Honestly it's everything we wanted, and maybe even a little more.

Our next book discussion is going to be about Louise Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God. You can find it at your local bookstore or library and read along with us!

Happy New Year! We're kicking 2018 off by chatting about Jackie Collins' catty bonkbuster Hollywood Wives. Content Warning! This episode talks about sex. Like a lot, because we're talking about a book by Jackie Collins. It's not hot sex, it's not even lukewarm sex, but we still talk about it.

Honestly it's everything we wanted, and maybe even a little more.

And Corinne makes several baseball metaphors that are not the ones you'd expect.

Our next book discussion is going to be about Louise Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God. You can find it at your local bookstore or library and read along with us!

Becca and Corinne talk about a being tourists in the country of New Zealand, about how some english words don't mean what you think and others mean a lot of things, and about the book Corinne went there to buy (j/k that would be an irresponisble financial decision), Witi Ihimaera's The Whale Rider.

Corinne pronounces almost all things wrong, consider this sentence this week's "Words is Hard."

Next week we're reading Hollywood Wives by Jackie Collins so don't freak out because it's kinda dirty.

Books mentioned:The Whale Rider, Witi Ihimaera;The Bone People, Keri Hulme; The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton; Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones; Wild Pork and Watercress, Barry Crump.

And an author from Australia: Shirley Hazard

And a movie: Hunt for the Wilderpeople

The music clip: Christmas in New Zealand by The Long Ryders

Becca and Corinne talk about a being tourists in the country of New Zealand, about how some english words don't mean what you think, and about the book Corinne went there to buy, Witi Ihimaera's The Whale Rider.

Also Corinne pronounces almost all things wrong, consider this sentence this week's Words is Hard.

Next week we're reading Hollywood Wives by Jackie Collins so don't freak out because it's kinda dirty.