Novel Gazing Podcast https://bookriot.com/listen/ en-US 2022 Book Riot Novel Gazing is a biweekly podcast dedicated to news, recommendations, and general goings-on from the world of literary fiction. https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/2cd6b9a6-9992-11ec-a975-6785096bf99c/image/image.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress Novel Gazing Podcast https://bookriot.com/listen/ no episodic Book Riot Novel Gazing is a biweekly podcast dedicated to news, recommendations, and general goings-on from the world of literary fiction. Riot New Media Group Inc. podcast+novelgazing@bookriot.com Literary Comics https://omny.fm/shows/novel-gazing/literary-comics Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What are some great literary comics? And, what are you reading now? This episode is sponsored by THE LIGHTEST OBJECT IN THE UNIVERSE by Kimi Eisele, now in paperback from Algonquin Books; Dark August by Harper Publishing; and Hey YA, Book Riot’s own podcast about all things young adult lit. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: Kelly Sue DeConnick on how the comic industry fosters sexual harassment and how to change the system. Black Writers’ Guild calls for sweeping change in UK publishing  Understanding Comics : The Invisible Art & Making Comics by Scott McCloud  How Pictures Work by Molly Bang  Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy : A Retelling of Little Women by Rey Terciero and Bre Indigo The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado, illustrated by Dani The Odyssey by Gareth Hinds Freedom Hospital : A Syrian Story by Hamid Sulaiman, trans Francesca Barrie Bingo Love by Tee Franklin Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi Bites of Terror by Cuddles and Rage   Here by Richard McGuire One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg Graphic novels for people who like literary fiction Bunny by Mona Awad Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi The Year Of The Runaways by Sanjeev Sahota YOU CAN FIND YOUR HOSTS HERE: Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter. Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer, and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 30 Jun 2020 10:00:00 -0000 Literary Comics full 13 Book Riot Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what are some great literary comics? Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What are some great literary comics? And, what are you reading now? This episode is sponsored by THE LIGHTEST OBJECT IN THE UNIVERSE by Kimi Eisele, now in paperback from Algonquin Books; Dark August by Harper Publishing; and Hey YA, Book Riot’s own podcast about all things young adult lit. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: Kelly Sue DeConnick on how the comic industry fosters sexual harassment and how to change the system. Black Writers’ Guild calls for sweeping change in UK publishing  Understanding Comics : The Invisible Art & Making Comics by Scott McCloud  How Pictures Work by Molly Bang  Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy : A Retelling of Little Women by Rey Terciero and Bre Indigo The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado, illustrated by Dani The Odyssey by Gareth Hinds Freedom Hospital : A Syrian Story by Hamid Sulaiman, trans Francesca Barrie Bingo Love by Tee Franklin Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi Bites of Terror by Cuddles and Rage   Here by Richard McGuire One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg Graphic novels for people who like literary fiction Bunny by Mona Awad Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi The Year Of The Runaways by Sanjeev Sahota YOU CAN FIND YOUR HOSTS HERE: Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter. Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer, and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What are some great literary comics? And, what are you reading now?

This episode is sponsored by THE LIGHTEST OBJECT IN THE UNIVERSE by Kimi Eisele, now in paperback from Algonquin Books; Dark August by Harper Publishing; and Hey YA, Book Riot’s own podcast about all things young adult lit.

Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.

BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED:

Kelly Sue DeConnick on how the comic industry fosters sexual harassment and how to change the system.

Black Writers’ Guild calls for sweeping change in UK publishing 

Understanding Comics : The Invisible Art & Making Comics by Scott McCloud 

How Pictures Work by Molly Bang 

Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy : A Retelling of Little Women by Rey Terciero and Bre Indigo

The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado, illustrated by Dani

The Odyssey by Gareth Hinds

Freedom Hospital : A Syrian Story by Hamid Sulaiman, trans Francesca Barrie

Bingo Love by Tee Franklin

Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi

Bites of Terror by Cuddles and Rage  

Here by Richard McGuire

One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg

Graphic novels for people who like literary fiction

Bunny by Mona Awad

Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi

The Year Of The Runaways by Sanjeev Sahota

YOU CAN FIND YOUR HOSTS HERE:

Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter.

Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer, and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

]]> 3049 no Literature in Translation, Part II https://omny.fm/shows/novel-gazing/literature-in-translation-part-ii Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What are some newly translated books? And, what are you reading now? This episode is sponsored by The Secret Women from Amistad Books, TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations, Book Riot’s personalized reading recommendation service, which now has gifting!, and the Books and Boba podcast. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: Book workers are striking today in a day of solidarity against racist violence and discrimination. A list of online Black owned bookstores to support. The LAMBDA awards are out! Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante which was the winner of the Trans category. Metonymy Press Fracture by Andrés Neuman, translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia Magnetized by Carlos Busqued translated by Samuel Rutter The Cage by Alberts Bels https://bookriot.com/2019/10/21/latvian-embassy-little-free-library/ Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Hadriana in All My Dreams by Renee Depestre, translated by Kaima L. Glover Celestial Bodies by Joka Alharthi, translated by Marilyn Booth Pillars of Salt by Fadia Faqir [edit: this book was not translated from its original Arabic into English, but rather published simultaneously in Arabic and English] Woman at Point Zero by Nawal el Saadawi 50 Must Read Books by women in translation The Garden of Monsters by  Lorenza Pieri, translated by Liesl Schillinger Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin YOU CAN FIND YOUR HOSTS HERE: Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter. Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer, and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 16 Jun 2020 10:00:00 -0000 Literature in Translation, Part II full 12 Book Riot Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what are some newly translated books? Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What are some newly translated books? And, what are you reading now? This episode is sponsored by The Secret Women from Amistad Books, TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations, Book Riot’s personalized reading recommendation service, which now has gifting!, and the Books and Boba podcast. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: Book workers are striking today in a day of solidarity against racist violence and discrimination. A list of online Black owned bookstores to support. The LAMBDA awards are out! Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante which was the winner of the Trans category. Metonymy Press Fracture by Andrés Neuman, translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia Magnetized by Carlos Busqued translated by Samuel Rutter The Cage by Alberts Bels https://bookriot.com/2019/10/21/latvian-embassy-little-free-library/ Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Hadriana in All My Dreams by Renee Depestre, translated by Kaima L. Glover Celestial Bodies by Joka Alharthi, translated by Marilyn Booth Pillars of Salt by Fadia Faqir [edit: this book was not translated from its original Arabic into English, but rather published simultaneously in Arabic and English] Woman at Point Zero by Nawal el Saadawi 50 Must Read Books by women in translation The Garden of Monsters by  Lorenza Pieri, translated by Liesl Schillinger Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin YOU CAN FIND YOUR HOSTS HERE: Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter. Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer, and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What are some newly translated books? And, what are you reading now?

This episode is sponsored by The Secret Women from Amistad Books, TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations, Book Riot’s personalized reading recommendation service, which now has gifting!, and the Books and Boba podcast.

Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.

BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED:

Book workers are striking today in a day of solidarity against racist violence and discrimination.

A list of online Black owned bookstores to support.

The LAMBDA awards are out!

Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante which was the winner of the Trans category.

Metonymy Press

Fracture by Andrés Neuman, translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia

Magnetized by Carlos Busqued translated by Samuel Rutter

The Cage by Alberts Bels

https://bookriot.com/2019/10/21/latvian-embassy-little-free-library/

Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Hadriana in All My Dreams by Renee Depestre, translated by Kaima L. Glover

Celestial Bodies by Joka Alharthi, translated by Marilyn Booth

Pillars of Salt by Fadia Faqir [edit: this book was not translated from its original Arabic into English, but rather published simultaneously in Arabic and English]

Woman at Point Zero by Nawal el Saadawi

50 Must Read Books by women in translation

The Garden of Monsters by  Lorenza Pieri, translated by Liesl Schillinger

Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin

YOU CAN FIND YOUR HOSTS HERE:

Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter.

Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer, and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

]]> 2817 no Interview with Screenwriter Sarah Gubbins about SHIRLEY https://omny.fm/shows/novel-gazing/interview-with-screenwriter-sarah-gubbins-about-sh Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What was it like to adapt Shirley Jackson to film? And, what are you reading now? This episode contains a really special interview with Sarah Gubbins, screenwriter of the new release film adaptation, Shirley.  This episode is sponsored by On LightHouses, The Yield, and Shelf Addiction. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: #FrightGirlSummer We Are All Fluxus Artists Now: Natilee Harren on Making the Most of Mundane Tasks “The First Lines of Emails I’ve Received While Quarantining” by Jessica Salfia Trailer of Shirley, adapted from Shirley: A Novel by Sarah Scarf Merrell Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett Gender Trouble by Judith Butler Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson YOU CAN FIND YOUR HOSTS HERE: Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter. Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer, and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 02 Jun 2020 10:00:00 -0000 Interview with Screenwriter Sarah Gubbins about SHIRLEY full 11 Book Riot Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what was it like to adapt Shirley Jackson to film? Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What was it like to adapt Shirley Jackson to film? And, what are you reading now? This episode contains a really special interview with Sarah Gubbins, screenwriter of the new release film adaptation, Shirley.  This episode is sponsored by On LightHouses, The Yield, and Shelf Addiction. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: #FrightGirlSummer We Are All Fluxus Artists Now: Natilee Harren on Making the Most of Mundane Tasks “The First Lines of Emails I’ve Received While Quarantining” by Jessica Salfia Trailer of Shirley, adapted from Shirley: A Novel by Sarah Scarf Merrell Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett Gender Trouble by Judith Butler Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson YOU CAN FIND YOUR HOSTS HERE: Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter. Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer, and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What was it like to adapt Shirley Jackson to film? And, what are you reading now?

This episode contains a really special interview with Sarah Gubbins, screenwriter of the new release film adaptation, Shirley. 

This episode is sponsored by On LightHouses, The Yield, and Shelf Addiction.

Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.

BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED:

#FrightGirlSummer

We Are All Fluxus Artists Now: Natilee Harren on Making the Most of Mundane Tasks

“The First Lines of Emails I’ve Received While Quarantining” by Jessica Salfia

Trailer of Shirley, adapted from Shirley: A Novel by Sarah Scarf Merrell

Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson

YOU CAN FIND YOUR HOSTS HERE:

Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter.

Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer, and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

]]> 2551 no Doorstoppers https://omny.fm/shows/novel-gazing/doorstoppers Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What are some of the best and worst doorstopper books? And, what are you reading now? This episode is sponsored by Lit Stitch: 25 Cross-Stitch Patterns for Book Lovers, made by Book Riot and Abrams, TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes, and The Reading Women podcast. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: The books that could flourish in this pandemic era from the BBC Where next for VIRTUAL LITERATURE?  “Black Box” by Jennifer Egan Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann The Swan Gondola by Timothy Schaffert The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy Les Miserables by Victor Hugo On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Moby Dick by Herman Melville Lord Of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi Must Read Big Books Long Books That Feel Short A Little Life by Hanya Yanigihara Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Black Leopard, Red Wolf Marlon James. Harlem Godfather: The Rap on My Husband, Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson Night And Day by Virginia Woolf “In the Orchard” by Virginia Woolf YOU CAN FIND YOUR HOSTS HERE: Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter. Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer, and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 19 May 2020 10:00:00 -0000 Doorstoppers full 10 Book Riot Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what are some of the best and worst doorstopper books? Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What are some of the best and worst doorstopper books? And, what are you reading now? This episode is sponsored by Lit Stitch: 25 Cross-Stitch Patterns for Book Lovers, made by Book Riot and Abrams, TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes, and The Reading Women podcast. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: The books that could flourish in this pandemic era from the BBC Where next for VIRTUAL LITERATURE?  “Black Box” by Jennifer Egan Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann The Swan Gondola by Timothy Schaffert The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy Les Miserables by Victor Hugo On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Moby Dick by Herman Melville Lord Of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi Must Read Big Books Long Books That Feel Short A Little Life by Hanya Yanigihara Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Black Leopard, Red Wolf Marlon James. Harlem Godfather: The Rap on My Husband, Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson Night And Day by Virginia Woolf “In the Orchard” by Virginia Woolf YOU CAN FIND YOUR HOSTS HERE: Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter. Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer, and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What are some of the best and worst doorstopper books? And, what are you reading now?

This episode is sponsored by Lit Stitch: 25 Cross-Stitch Patterns for Book Lovers, made by Book Riot and Abrams, TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes, and The Reading Women podcast.

Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.

BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED:

The books that could flourish in this pandemic era from the BBC

Where next for VIRTUAL LITERATURE? 

“Black Box” by Jennifer Egan

Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

The Swan Gondola by Timothy Schaffert

The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk

The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Lord Of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein

Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

Must Read Big Books

Long Books That Feel Short

A Little Life by Hanya Yanigihara

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Black Leopard, Red Wolf Marlon James.

Harlem Godfather: The Rap on My Husband, Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson

Night And Day by Virginia Woolf

“In the Orchard” by Virginia Woolf

YOU CAN FIND YOUR HOSTS HERE:

Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter.

Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer, and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

]]> 2749 no Crossover Hits https://omny.fm/shows/novel-gazing/crossover-hits Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What are some of the best crossover hits? And, what are you reading now? This episode is sponsored by Flatiron Books, publisher of The Paris Hours by Alex George, Libro.FM, and The Reading Women podcast. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: “Majority of authors ‘hear’ their characters speak, finds study” by Alison Flood The Comedy Women in Print Prize 2020 Longlist The Comedy Women in Print Twitter page Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide: A graphic guide to lesbian and queer history 1950-2020 by Kate Charlesworth To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith Life: An Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet Margot & Me by Juno Dawson The Read Harder Challenge 2020 Reading Log The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Holes by Louis Sachar Guenevere by Rosalind Miles Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by Anne Rice Eva Ibbotson A Little Love Song by Michelle Magorian The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg Geek Love by Katherine Dunn Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin The Madeline Treasury by Ludwig Bemmelmans YOU CAN FIND YOUR HOSTS HERE: Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter. Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer, and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 05 May 2020 10:00:00 -0000 Crossover Hits full 9 Book Riot Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what are some of the best crossover hits? Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What are some of the best crossover hits? And, what are you reading now? This episode is sponsored by Flatiron Books, publisher of The Paris Hours by Alex George, Libro.FM, and The Reading Women podcast. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: “Majority of authors ‘hear’ their characters speak, finds study” by Alison Flood The Comedy Women in Print Prize 2020 Longlist The Comedy Women in Print Twitter page Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide: A graphic guide to lesbian and queer history 1950-2020 by Kate Charlesworth To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith Life: An Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet Margot & Me by Juno Dawson The Read Harder Challenge 2020 Reading Log The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Holes by Louis Sachar Guenevere by Rosalind Miles Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by Anne Rice Eva Ibbotson A Little Love Song by Michelle Magorian The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg Geek Love by Katherine Dunn Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin The Madeline Treasury by Ludwig Bemmelmans YOU CAN FIND YOUR HOSTS HERE: Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter. Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer, and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What are some of the best crossover hits? And, what are you reading now?

This episode is sponsored by Flatiron Books, publisher of The Paris Hours by Alex George, Libro.FM, and The Reading Women podcast.

Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.

BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED:

“Majority of authors ‘hear’ their characters speak, finds study” by Alison Flood

The Comedy Women in Print Prize 2020 Longlist

The Comedy Women in Print Twitter page

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Sensible Footwear: A Girl’s Guide: A graphic guide to lesbian and queer history 1950-2020 by Kate Charlesworth

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith

Life: An Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet

Margot & Me by Juno Dawson

The Read Harder Challenge

2020 Reading Log

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Holes by Louis Sachar

Guenevere by Rosalind Miles

Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by Anne Rice

Eva Ibbotson

A Little Love Song by Michelle Magorian

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr

Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden

A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin

The Madeline Treasury by Ludwig Bemmelmans

YOU CAN FIND YOUR HOSTS HERE:

Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter.

Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer, and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer.

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]]> 3473 no What is the Truth? (Literary Nonfiction) https://omny.fm/shows/novel-gazing/what-is-the-truth-literary-nonfiction Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What are the best books of literary nonfiction? What IS literary nonfiction? And, what are you reading now? This episode is sponsored by Flatiron Books, publisher of The Paris Hours by Alex George and The Reading Women podcast. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: The 2020 International Booker Prize Shortlist is Mostly Women Again An interview by Juliet Jacques with McKenzie Wark on her new book Reverse Cowgirl Reverse Cowgirl by McKenzie Wark Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives by Julia Watson and Sidonie Smith Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir by Lauren Slater Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson Let Me Clear My Throat by Elena Passarello On Immunity: An Inocuation by Eula Biss The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Fun Home: A Family Tragicoic by Alison Bechdel. My Journey to Lhasa  by Alexandra David-Neel Verge by Lidia Yuknavitch If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson Annnnd The Sappho Bot of Twitter! YOU CAN FIND YOUR HOSTS HERE: Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter. Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer, and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 21 Apr 2020 10:00:00 -0000 What is the Truth? (Literary Nonfiction) full 8 Book Riot Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what is literary nonfiction? Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What are the best books of literary nonfiction? What IS literary nonfiction? And, what are you reading now? This episode is sponsored by Flatiron Books, publisher of The Paris Hours by Alex George and The Reading Women podcast. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: The 2020 International Booker Prize Shortlist is Mostly Women Again An interview by Juliet Jacques with McKenzie Wark on her new book Reverse Cowgirl Reverse Cowgirl by McKenzie Wark Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives by Julia Watson and Sidonie Smith Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir by Lauren Slater Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson Let Me Clear My Throat by Elena Passarello On Immunity: An Inocuation by Eula Biss The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Fun Home: A Family Tragicoic by Alison Bechdel. My Journey to Lhasa  by Alexandra David-Neel Verge by Lidia Yuknavitch If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson Annnnd The Sappho Bot of Twitter! YOU CAN FIND YOUR HOSTS HERE: Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter. Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer, and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mary Kay and Louise talk about important things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What are the best books of literary nonfiction? What IS literary nonfiction? And, what are you reading now?

This episode is sponsored by Flatiron Books, publisher of The Paris Hours by Alex George and The Reading Women podcast.

Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.

BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED:

The 2020 International Booker Prize Shortlist is Mostly Women Again

An interview by Juliet Jacques with McKenzie Wark on her new book Reverse Cowgirl

Reverse Cowgirl by McKenzie Wark

Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives by Julia Watson and Sidonie Smith

Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir by Lauren Slater

Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston

Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson

Let Me Clear My Throat by Elena Passarello

On Immunity: An Inocuation by Eula Biss

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Fun Home: A Family Tragicoic by Alison Bechdel.

My Journey to Lhasa  by Alexandra David-Neel

Verge by Lidia Yuknavitch

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson

Annnnd The Sappho Bot of Twitter!

YOU CAN FIND YOUR HOSTS HERE:

Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter.

Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer, and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer.

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]]> 3417 no Literary Fiction that Changed Our Lives https://omny.fm/shows/novel-gazing/literary-fiction-that-changed-our-lives Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What are the books of literary fiction that changed your life? And, what are you reading now? This episode is sponsored by Shelf Addiction podcast, Catapult, and The Malevolent Volume by Justin Phillip Reed, published by Coffee House Press. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: "Book sales surge as self-isolating readers stock up on ‘bucket list’ novels"  in The Guardian What our contagion fables are REALLY about in The New Yorker, by Jill Lepore The Color Purple by Alice Walker "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker Beloved and Paradise by Toni Morrison Roots by Alex Haley Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer In Cold Blood by Truman Capote A Void (La Disparation) by Georges Perec The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne She Came to Stay (L'Invitee) by Simone de Beauvoir Ducks Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo "The Mermaid in the Tree" by Timothy Schaffert, in My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me edited by Kate Bernheimer Wow, No Thank You and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby "Inventory" in Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier Unflattening by Nick Sousanis YOU CAN FIND YOUR HOSTS HERE: Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter. Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer, and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 07 Apr 2020 10:00:00 -0000 Literary Fiction that Changed Our Lives full 7 Book Riot Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, what are the books of literary fiction that changed your life? Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What are the books of literary fiction that changed your life? And, what are you reading now? This episode is sponsored by Shelf Addiction podcast, Catapult, and The Malevolent Volume by Justin Phillip Reed, published by Coffee House Press. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: "Book sales surge as self-isolating readers stock up on ‘bucket list’ novels"  in The Guardian What our contagion fables are REALLY about in The New Yorker, by Jill Lepore The Color Purple by Alice Walker "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker Beloved and Paradise by Toni Morrison Roots by Alex Haley Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer In Cold Blood by Truman Capote A Void (La Disparation) by Georges Perec The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne She Came to Stay (L'Invitee) by Simone de Beauvoir Ducks Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo "The Mermaid in the Tree" by Timothy Schaffert, in My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me edited by Kate Bernheimer Wow, No Thank You and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby "Inventory" in Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier Unflattening by Nick Sousanis YOU CAN FIND YOUR HOSTS HERE: Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter. Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer, and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What are the books of literary fiction that changed your life? And, what are you reading now?

This episode is sponsored by Shelf Addiction podcast, Catapult, and The Malevolent Volume by Justin Phillip Reed, published by Coffee House Press.

Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.

BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED:

"Book sales surge as self-isolating readers stock up on ‘bucket list’ novels"  in The Guardian

What our contagion fables are REALLY about in The New Yorker, by Jill Lepore

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker

Beloved and Paradise by Toni Morrison

Roots by Alex Haley

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

A Void (La Disparation) by Georges Perec

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne

She Came to Stay (L'Invitee) by Simone de Beauvoir

Ducks Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

"The Mermaid in the Tree" by Timothy Schaffert, in My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me edited by Kate Bernheimer

Wow, No Thank You and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

"Inventory" in Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier

Unflattening by Nick Sousanis

YOU CAN FIND YOUR HOSTS HERE:

Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter.

Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer, and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer.

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]]> 3979 no Literary Fiction Vs. Genre Fiction https://omny.fm/shows/novel-gazing/literary-fiction-vs-genre-fiction Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What's the difference between literary fiction and genre fiction? Is one "better" than the other? And, what are you reading? This episode is sponsored by The Winemaker's Wife, Libro FM, and TBR: Tailored Book Recommedations. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: "What It’s Like to Try to Promote a Book in the Middle of a Pandemic" by Amy Klein "The Case for Reading Fiction" by Christine Seifert Tillerman series by Cynthia Voigt Cormac McCarthy You can find your hosts here: Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter. Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 24 Mar 2020 10:00:00 -0000 Literary Fiction Vs. Genre Fiction full 6 Book Riot Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What's the difference between literary fiction and genre fiction? Is one "better" than the other? And, what are you reading? Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What's the difference between literary fiction and genre fiction? Is one "better" than the other? And, what are you reading? This episode is sponsored by The Winemaker's Wife, Libro FM, and TBR: Tailored Book Recommedations. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: "What It’s Like to Try to Promote a Book in the Middle of a Pandemic" by Amy Klein "The Case for Reading Fiction" by Christine Seifert Tillerman series by Cynthia Voigt Cormac McCarthy You can find your hosts here: Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter. Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? What's the difference between literary fiction and genre fiction? Is one "better" than the other? And, what are you reading?

This episode is sponsored by The Winemaker's Wife, Libro FM, and TBR: Tailored Book Recommedations.

Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.

BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED:

"What It’s Like to Try to Promote a Book in the Middle of a Pandemic" by Amy Klein

"The Case for Reading Fiction" by Christine Seifert

Tillerman series by Cynthia Voigt

Cormac McCarthy

You can find your hosts here:

Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter.

Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer.

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]]> 2601 no How do you find the books that you read? https://omny.fm/shows/novel-gazing/how-do-you-find-the-books-that-you-read Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? Where do you find the books that you read? How do you decide what to read next? And, what are you reading? This episode is sponsored by Libro FM, Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community, and TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: “On the Paradoxes of Toni Morrison’s Catholicism” by Nick Ripatrazone “The Hottest New Literary Genre is Doomer Lit” by Kate Knibbs The Road by Cormac McCarthy Women’s Prize Shortlist just announced Tailored Book Recommendations from Book Riot Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Carmen Maria Machado’s list of recommendations Tender by Sofia Samatar The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron Private Eye Magazine Kirkus Reviews Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg You can find your hosts here: Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter. Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:00:00 -0000 How do you find the books that you read? full 5 Book Riot Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? Where do you find the books that you read? How do you decide what to read next? And, what are you reading? Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? Where do you find the books that you read? How do you decide what to read next? And, what are you reading? This episode is sponsored by Libro FM, Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community, and TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: “On the Paradoxes of Toni Morrison’s Catholicism” by Nick Ripatrazone “The Hottest New Literary Genre is Doomer Lit” by Kate Knibbs The Road by Cormac McCarthy Women’s Prize Shortlist just announced Tailored Book Recommendations from Book Riot Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Carmen Maria Machado’s list of recommendations Tender by Sofia Samatar The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron Private Eye Magazine Kirkus Reviews Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg You can find your hosts here: Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter. Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? Where do you find the books that you read? How do you decide what to read next? And, what are you reading?

This episode is sponsored by Libro FM, Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community, and TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations.

Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.

BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED:

“On the Paradoxes of Toni Morrison’s Catholicism” by Nick Ripatrazone

“The Hottest New Literary Genre is Doomer Lit” by Kate Knibbs

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Women’s Prize Shortlist just announced

Tailored Book Recommendations from Book Riot

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Carmen Maria Machado’s list of recommendations

Tender by Sofia Samatar

The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

Private Eye Magazine

Kirkus Reviews

Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin

Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg

You can find your hosts here:

Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter.

Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer.

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]]> 2971 no Film Adaptations and Autumn de Wilde on EMMA https://omny.fm/shows/novel-gazing/film-adaptations-and-autumn-de-wilde-on-emma Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? How does Director Autumn de Wilde feel about her new film adaptation of Emma? And, what are you reading? This episode is sponsored by Get Booked: Handsell, Libro FM, and Book Marks, A customizable journal to record your reading life! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: “New Literary Prize Will Award Over $100,000 to a Female Novelist” by Concepción de León “The Barbellion Prize: A New Award for Disabled Writers” by Margaret Kingsbury Emma by Jane Austen Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones Animal Farm by Odyr “How the CIA brought Animal Farm to the screen” by Martin Chilton You can find your hosts here: Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter. Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 25 Feb 2020 11:00:00 -0000 Film Adaptations and Autumn de Wilde on EMMA full 4 Book Riot Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? How does Director Autumn de Wilde feel about her new film adaptation of Emma? And, what are you reading? Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? How does Director Autumn de Wilde feel about her new film adaptation of Emma? And, what are you reading? This episode is sponsored by Get Booked: Handsell, Libro FM, and Book Marks, A customizable journal to record your reading life! Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: “New Literary Prize Will Award Over $100,000 to a Female Novelist” by Concepción de León “The Barbellion Prize: A New Award for Disabled Writers” by Margaret Kingsbury Emma by Jane Austen Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones Animal Farm by Odyr “How the CIA brought Animal Farm to the screen” by Martin Chilton You can find your hosts here: Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter. Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, what’s going on in the literary world right now? How does Director Autumn de Wilde feel about her new film adaptation of Emma? And, what are you reading?

This episode is sponsored by Get Booked: Handsell, Libro FM, and Book Marks, A customizable journal to record your reading life!

Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.

BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED:

“New Literary Prize Will Award Over $100,000 to a Female Novelist” by Concepción de León

“The Barbellion Prize: A New Award for Disabled Writers” by Margaret Kingsbury

Emma by Jane Austen

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Animal Farm by Odyr

“How the CIA brought Animal Farm to the screen” by Martin Chilton

You can find your hosts here:

Louise @ www.didyoueverstoptothink.com and @chaletfan on Twitter.

Mary Kay @ www.marykaymcbrayer.com, Twitter at @mkmcbrayer and Instagram at @marykaymcbrayer.

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]]> 3393 no How to Read Literary Fiction that Doesn't Want You to Read It https://omny.fm/shows/novel-gazing/how-to-read-literary-fiction-that-doesnt-want-you Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, how to read books that are very difficult to get through. What’s going on in the literary world right now? And, what are you reading? This episode is sponsored by The Stationery Shop; b, Book, and Me; and Book Marks. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: “Hillary without Bill: Curtis Sittenfeld rewrites Clinton’s personal history” by Alison Flood “What the Great Russian Writers Didn’t Get About the Criminal Mind” by Varlam Shalamov Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Roots by Alex Haley Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Beowulf by Gareth Hinds The Cooper’s Wife is Missing: The Trials of Bridget Cleary by Joan Hoff & Marian Yeates Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo To get even more book news and recommendations, sign up for our New Books newsletter! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 11 Feb 2020 13:58:00 -0000 How to Read Literary Fiction that Doesn't Want You to Read It full 3 Book Riot Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, how to read books that are very difficult to get through. What’s going on in the literary world right now? And, what are you reading? Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, how to read books that are very difficult to get through. What’s going on in the literary world right now? And, what are you reading? This episode is sponsored by The Stationery Shop; b, Book, and Me; and Book Marks. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: “Hillary without Bill: Curtis Sittenfeld rewrites Clinton’s personal history” by Alison Flood “What the Great Russian Writers Didn’t Get About the Criminal Mind” by Varlam Shalamov Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Roots by Alex Haley Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Beowulf by Gareth Hinds The Cooper’s Wife is Missing: The Trials of Bridget Cleary by Joan Hoff & Marian Yeates Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo To get even more book news and recommendations, sign up for our New Books newsletter! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, how to read books that are very difficult to get through. What’s going on in the literary world right now? And, what are you reading?

This episode is sponsored by The Stationery Shop; b, Book, and Me; and Book Marks.

Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.

BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED:

“Hillary without Bill: Curtis Sittenfeld rewrites Clinton’s personal history” by Alison Flood

“What the Great Russian Writers Didn’t Get About the Criminal Mind” by Varlam Shalamov

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Roots by Alex Haley

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Beowulf by Gareth Hinds

The Cooper’s Wife is Missing: The Trials of Bridget Cleary by Joan Hoff & Marian Yeates

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

To get even more book news and recommendations, sign up for our New Books newsletter!

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]]> 2915 no Translated / To Be Translated Literary Fiction https://omny.fm/shows/novel-gazing/translated-to-be-translated-literary-fiction Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, what titles should be translated? What are some of our favorite literary fiction in translation? What’s going on in the literary world right now? And, what are you reading? This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders and Libro.fm. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: “A new Missouri bill proposes jailing librarians who provide children “age-inappropriate” books” by Corinne Segal “Lee Child: Thriller writer joins Booker judging panel“ Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo The Testaments by Margaret Atwood La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Håret til mamma by Gro Dahle, illustrated by Svein Nyhus “Why We Love Untranslatable Words” by David Shariatmadari Dien Cai Dau by Yusef Komunyakaa Aladdin: A New Translation edited by Paul Lemos Horta , translated by Yasmine Seale Magnetized: Conversations with a Serial Killer by Carlos Busqued, translated by Samuel Rutter Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, translated by Christine Donougher To get even more book news and recommendations, sign up for our New Books newsletter! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 28 Jan 2020 11:00:00 -0000 Translated / To Be Translated Literary Fiction full 2 Book Riot Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, what titles should be translated? What are some of our favorite literary fiction in translation? What’s going on in the literary world right now? And, what are you reading? Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, what titles should be translated? What are some of our favorite literary fiction in translation? What’s going on in the literary world right now? And, what are you reading? This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders and Libro.fm. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: “A new Missouri bill proposes jailing librarians who provide children “age-inappropriate” books” by Corinne Segal “Lee Child: Thriller writer joins Booker judging panel“ Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo The Testaments by Margaret Atwood La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Håret til mamma by Gro Dahle, illustrated by Svein Nyhus “Why We Love Untranslatable Words” by David Shariatmadari Dien Cai Dau by Yusef Komunyakaa Aladdin: A New Translation edited by Paul Lemos Horta , translated by Yasmine Seale Magnetized: Conversations with a Serial Killer by Carlos Busqued, translated by Samuel Rutter Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, translated by Christine Donougher To get even more book news and recommendations, sign up for our New Books newsletter! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, what titles should be translated? What are some of our favorite literary fiction in translation? What’s going on in the literary world right now? And, what are you reading?

This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders and Libro.fm.

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BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED:

“A new Missouri bill proposes jailing librarians who provide children “age-inappropriate” books” by Corinne Segal

“Lee Child: Thriller writer joins Booker judging panel“

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Håret til mamma by Gro Dahle, illustrated by Svein Nyhus

“Why We Love Untranslatable Words” by David Shariatmadari

Dien Cai Dau by Yusef Komunyakaa

Aladdin: A New Translation edited by Paul Lemos Horta , translated by Yasmine Seale

Magnetized: Conversations with a Serial Killer by Carlos Busqued, translated by Samuel Rutter

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, translated by Christine Donougher

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]]> 2466 no Is Harry Potter Literary Fiction? https://omny.fm/shows/novel-gazing/is-harry-potter-literary-fiction Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, is Harry Potter literary fiction? What’s going on in the literary world right now? And, what are you reading? This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders and Libro.fm. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: “Without Women The Novel Would Die” by Johanna Thomas-Corr. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte “It’s Time to Fall Back in Love With Zora Neale Hurston” by Jennifer Baker Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston Of Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston (featuring the short story/forward “Searching for Zora” by Alice Walker) The Color Purple by Alice Walker The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Daniel Mallory Ortberg JK Rowling Makes Transphobic Statement on Twitter Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling “You Can’t Be Serious about Harry Potter!” Peter Darling by Austin Chant An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Little: A Novel by Edward Carey To get even more book news and recommendations, sign up for our New Books newsletter! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 14 Jan 2020 11:00:00 -0000 Is Harry Potter Literary Fiction? full 1 Book Riot Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, is Harry Potter literary fiction? What’s going on in the literary world right now? And, what are you reading? Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, is Harry Potter literary fiction? What’s going on in the literary world right now? And, what are you reading? This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders and Libro.fm. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED: “Without Women The Novel Would Die” by Johanna Thomas-Corr. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte “It’s Time to Fall Back in Love With Zora Neale Hurston” by Jennifer Baker Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston Of Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston (featuring the short story/forward “Searching for Zora” by Alice Walker) The Color Purple by Alice Walker The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Daniel Mallory Ortberg JK Rowling Makes Transphobic Statement on Twitter Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling “You Can’t Be Serious about Harry Potter!” Peter Darling by Austin Chant An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Little: A Novel by Edward Carey To get even more book news and recommendations, sign up for our New Books newsletter! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, is Harry Potter literary fiction? What’s going on in the literary world right now? And, what are you reading?

This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders and Libro.fm.

Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.

BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED:

“Without Women The Novel Would Die” by Johanna Thomas-Corr.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

“It’s Time to Fall Back in Love With Zora Neale Hurston” by Jennifer Baker

Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston

Of Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston

Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston (featuring the short story/forward “Searching for Zora” by Alice Walker)

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Daniel Mallory Ortberg

JK Rowling Makes Transphobic Statement on Twitter

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

“You Can’t Be Serious about Harry Potter!”

Peter Darling by Austin Chant

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Little: A Novel by Edward Carey

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]]> 2373 no Defining Art In Two Minutes https://omny.fm/shows/novel-gazing/defining-art-in-two-minutes In this introduction to Novel Gazing, hosts Mary Kay and Louise discuss how to define literary fiction and offer up some bookish confessions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 12 Dec 2019 18:40:04 -0000 Defining Art In Two Minutes trailer Book Riot In this introduction to Novel Gazing, hosts Mary Kay and Louise discuss how to define literary fiction and offer up some bookish confessions. In this introduction to Novel Gazing, hosts Mary Kay and Louise discuss how to define literary fiction and offer up some bookish confessions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In this introduction to Novel Gazing, hosts Mary Kay and Louise discuss how to define literary fiction and offer up some bookish confessions.

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