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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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

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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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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.

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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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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.