What is the Truth? (Literary Nonfiction)

04/21/20 • 58 min

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 Cars...

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 Cars...

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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.

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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

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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.

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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