Reading Writers

Reading Writers
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Reading Writers

Writers Charlotte Shane and Jo Livingstone talk about what they’ve been reading and special guests join to enthuse about a significant or provocative book of their choice. Theme song by Jo Livingstone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. A Natural Affinity: Shon Faye on Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch

    12月12日

    A Natural Affinity: Shon Faye on Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch

    Charlotte and Jo enthuse briefly but ardently about friend of the pod’s Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection and Helen Humphreys’ Followed By The Lark before the powerhouse Shon Faye joins for a rollicking take on Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch. Shon Faye is an advice columnist for Vogue dot com and the author of two books The Transgender Issue published by Verso in 2022 and the forthcoming Love in Exile a memoir to be published by FSG in May 2025. Send questions, requests, recommendations, and your own thoughts about any of the books discussed today to readingwriterspod at gmail dot com.  Charlotte’s most recent book is An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work. Learn more at charoshane.com Jo co-edits The Stopgap and their writing lives at jolivingstone.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 小時 13 分鐘
  2. Inheriting the Inescapable: Lovia Gyarkye on Marie NDiaye’s Ladivine

    12月6日

    Inheriting the Inescapable: Lovia Gyarkye on Marie NDiaye’s Ladivine

    Jo discovers one of the most fascinating books of all time with Extraterrestrial Languages by Daniel Oberhaus, while Charlotte issues her verdict on whether Lional Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin lives up to its good reputation. Beloved critic Lovia Gyarkye then joins to assess the complex, beguiling mother-daughter dynamics at work in Marie NDiaye’s Ladivine. Lovia Gyarkye is a critic at The Hollywood Reporter based in New York.  Send questions, requests, recommendations, and your own thoughts about any of the books discussed today to readingwriterspod at gmail dot com.  Charlotte’s most recent book is An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work. Learn more at charoshane.com Jo co-edits The Stopgap and their writing lives at jolivingstone.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 小時 15 分鐘
  3. Illegible Logic: CharJo on Paula Hawkins and Jacqueline Harpman

    11月27日

    Illegible Logic: CharJo on Paula Hawkins and Jacqueline Harpman

    In another host-only bonus episode, Jo reviews Paula Hawkins’ art mystery novel, The Blue Hour, and Charlotte rhapsodizes about Jacqueline Harpman’s bizarre science fiction masterpiece I Who Have Never Known Men. Other titles discussed: Karen Slaughter’s Will Trent series, Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train, The Woman in Black by Susan Hill, and The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. Send questions, requests, recommendations, and your own thoughts about any of the books discussed today to readingwriterspod at gmail dot com.  Charlotte’s most recent book is An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work. Learn more at charoshane.com Jo co-edits The Stopgap and their writing lives at jolivingstone.co Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    46 分鐘
  4. Bring A Pen: Emma Robinson on Dianne Brill’s Boobs, Boys, and High Heels

    11月13日

    Bring A Pen: Emma Robinson on Dianne Brill’s Boobs, Boys, and High Heels

    Jo is refreshed by Trouble in the Cotswalds by Rebecca Tope but Charlotte quickly ruins their peace by connecting the sex in Heather Lewis’s violent novel Notice with Miranda July’s NBA-shortlisted All Fours. The effervescent Emma Robinson joins to share her love for Dianne Brill’s Boobs, Boys, and High Heels, which inspires further reflection on 90s era beauty books and instruction manuals. Other books mentioned in this episode: Steven Saylor’s Murder on the Appian Way, Rachel Cusk’s Aftermath, Gemma Hartley’s Fed Up, Shelia Heti’s Motherhood, Bobbi Brown’s Teenage Beauty, Amanda Brooks’ Internet Escort’s Handbook, and Sydney Barrow’s Mayflower Madam and Just Between Us Girls. Charlotte’s review of All Fours and Gemma Hartley’s Fed Up, both in Bookforum.  Inspired at once by radical philosophers and tulips, Emma Cager Robinson is looking for beauty. As a mechanism for change and source of inspiration, Emma uses beauty as the driving force behind her activism. With a focus on Consciousness Raising and creating “Insurgents,” Emma uses media of all forms to shift the way we interrogate culture and the systems we interact with on a daily basis. A Texan at heart, she’s especially impassioned about spreading this energy through the South; as a means of completing ancestral business, and working in a long line of women committed to making the world suck less for their families and communities. Send questions, requests, recommendations, and your own thoughts about any of the books discussed today to readingwriterspod at gmail dot com.  Charlotte’s most recent book is An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work. Learn more at charoshane.com Jo co-edits The Stopgap and their writing lives at jolivingstone.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 小時 7 分鐘
  5. Just Open the Door and Go: Marlowe Granados on Margaret Drabble’s The Millstone

    11月6日

    Just Open the Door and Go: Marlowe Granados on Margaret Drabble’s The Millstone

    Jo opens their mind to further basketball books after reading Hanif Abdurraqib’s There’s Always This Year, while Charlotte (11:30) revisits a YA novel from her youth, Bette Green’s Summer of My German Soldier. Glamorous Marlowe Granados then joins (24:30) to expound on great novels of mid-century women, namely Margaret Drabble’s The Millstone.  Other books discussed in this episode: Mary McCarthy's The Group and Rona Jaffe's The Best of Everything Marlowe Granados is the author of Happy Hour, a novel the New Yorker called an "effervescent debut." In 2021, it was shortlisted for the Amazon First Novel award and received starred reviews from Publisher's Weekly and Kirkus Review. It is considered a RAVE on Literary Hub’s BookMarks, a website that aggregates reviews from major publications. She writes a substack called "From the Desk of Marlowe Granados" and is currently at work on her second novel. After spending time in New York and London, she now lives in Toronto.  Send questions, requests, recommendations, and your own thoughts about any of the books discussed today to readingwriterspod at gmail dot com.  Charlotte’s most recent book is An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work. Learn more at charoshane.com Jo co-edits The Stopgap and their writing lives at jolivingstone.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 小時 1 分鐘
  6. A Stranger Comes to Town: Matt Korvette on Joan Samson’s The Auctioneer

    10月30日

    A Stranger Comes to Town: Matt Korvette on Joan Samson’s The Auctioneer

    Charlotte is haunted by the lack of violence in Swedish dystopias (Kallocain by Karin Boye and Amatka by Karin Tidbeck) while Jo (17:00) delves into the controlled and uncontrolled horror of medical history in Human Medical Experimentation, ed. Francis R. Frankenberg. Pissed Jeans’ thoughtful frontman Matt Korvette joins (27:00) to share his trenchant take on menace and neighborly predation in Joan Samson’s The Auctioneer.  Other books discussed in this episode: Emmanuel Carrère's V13: Chronicle of a Trial, J.D. Daniels' The Correspondence, and Robert C O'Brien's Z for Zachariah Matt Korvette is a writer, critic, lyricist and performer, best known as the vocalist of Pissed Jeans. He resides in Philadelphia, PA. Send questions, requests, recommendations, and your own thoughts about any of the books discussed today to readingwriterspod at gmail dot com.  Charlotte’s most recent book is An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work. Learn more at charoshane.com Jo co-edits The Stopgap and their writing lives at jolivingstone.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 小時 2 分鐘
  7. Disposing of the Bodies: CharJo on J.M. Coetzee

    10月23日

    Disposing of the Bodies: CharJo on J.M. Coetzee

    In this special bonus episode, Jo and Charlotte talk about J.M. Coetzee, starting with Disgrace and moving to white South African literature, the legacy of colonialism in fiction, animal rights and Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals, as well as Athol Fugard’s plays, James Percy FitzPatrick’s Jock of the Bushveld, Sunaura Taylor’s Beasts of Burden, Marjorie Spiegel’s The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery, Tina Post’s Deadpan, Eyal Press’ Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America, and much more. Send questions, requests, recommendations, and your own thoughts about any of the books discussed today to readingwriterspod at gmail dot com.  Charlotte’s most recent book is An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work. Learn more at charoshane.com Jo co-edits The Stopgap and their writing lives at jolivingstone.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    44 分鐘
  8. Sobbing on the Floor: Sarah Miller on Elizabeth Jane Howard's The Cazalet Chronicles

    10月16日

    Sobbing on the Floor: Sarah Miller on Elizabeth Jane Howard's The Cazalet Chronicles

    Charlotte and Jo discuss the mortifying ordeal of being (visually) perceived and other trials of embodiment as explored in Lucy Grealy’s Autobiography of a Face and Judith Moore’s Fat Girl: A True Story. The REAL and spectacular Sarah Miller then joins to give her wholehearted endorsement to Elizabeth Jane Howard’s The Cazalet Chronicles.  Sarah Miller has written for the New York Times, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, and the Paris Review, covering topics ranging from climate change to American Imperialism to how ugly her unrenovated bathroom is. She works part time at a wine store in Grass Valley California and loves red and blue heelers. Her Substack is called The Real Sarah Miller.  Send questions, requests, recommendations, and your own thoughts about any of the books discussed today to readingwriterspod at gmail dot com.  Charlotte’s most recent book is An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work. Learn more at charoshane.com Jo co-edits The Stopgap and their writing lives at jolivingstone.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 小時 2 分鐘
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Writers Charlotte Shane and Jo Livingstone talk about what they’ve been reading and special guests join to enthuse about a significant or provocative book of their choice. Theme song by Jo Livingstone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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