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Reading Writers

Reading Writers
Love Story
Luster
The Little Friend
Raven Leilani
Race
Erich Segal
The Auctioneer
Colonialism
The Shipping News
Lucky Jim
Democratic Vistas
Stories Of the Sahara
1982 Janine
Christianity
New York
Totalitarianism
Donna Tartt
Annie Proulx
Walt Whitman
Western Sahara

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.

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Jo and Charlotte discuss secret gardens, indoor kids, and Peter Pan’s baby teeth before they’re joined by culture-shaping Annelise Ogaard, who introduces listeners to the lavish, creepy world of Gabrielle Wittkop’s fiction.

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Charlotte overcomes her resistance to novels about sexual abuse in order to read Kate Elizabeth Russell’s excellent My Dark Vanessa, after which Jo introduces listeners to the freewheeling criminality of Diane DiMassa’s Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesb... more

This week, Jo discovers the seminal elegance of Sylvia Wynter’s Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World, while Charlotte considers how well she would fare if she traveled back in time to the era of Alexander the Great, as depicted in Mary Ren... more

Reading Writers is BACK, and in partnership with Bookforum Magazine!

In this first episode of Season 3, hosts Jo and Charlotte delve into the (separate) letter collections of Vincent Van Gogh and D.H. Lawrence before they’re joined by superstar nove... more

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Recent Guests

Torrey Peters
Author of the novel Detransition Baby, which won the 2021 Penn Hemingway Award for debut fiction.
Episode: Metaphysically Blown Away: Torrey Peters on Zoë Schlanger’s The Light Eaters
Lauren Michele Jackson
Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University and author of "White Negroes" and the forthcoming essay collection "Back"
Northwestern University
Episode: Setting the House on Fire: Lauren Michele Jackson on Nettie Jones’ Fish Tales
Rumaan Alam
Author of four novels, including recently Entitlement
Episode: First Draft of Reality: Rumaan Alam on Tina Brown’s The Vanity Fair Diaries.
K. Austin Collins
Film critic and author of "Black Cop" and "Domestic Violence"
Forthcoming from Doubleday and Fireflies Press
Episode: Competing Fantasies: K. Austin Collins on Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts
Shon Faye
Advice columnist for vogue.com and author of 'The Transgender Issue' and 'Love in Exile'
Vogue, Verso Books, FSG
Episode: A Natural Affinity: Shon Faye on Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch
Emma Robinson
Activist and author passionate about beauty as a mechanism for change
Episode: Bring A Pen: Emma Robinson on Dianne Brill’s Boobs, Boys, and High Heels
Marlowe Granados
Author of Happy Hour, a novel highly praised by major publications
New Yorker
Episode: Just Open the Door and Go: Marlowe Granados on Margaret Drabble’s The Millstone
Matt Korvette
A writer, critic, lyricist, and performer, best known as a vocalist of Pissed Jeans
Pissed Jeans
Episode: A Stranger Comes to Town: Matt Korvette on Joan Samson’s The Auctioneer
Sarah Miller
A writer for prestigious publications including The New York Times and New Yorker
New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Paris Review
Episode: Sobbing on the Floor: Sarah Miller on Elizabeth Jane Howard's The Cazalet Chronicles

Hosts

Charlotte Shane
Co-host of Reading Writers
Jo Livingstone
Co-host of Reading Writers

Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars from 37 ratings
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    The Actual Rapper Cam'Ron
    United Statesa year ago
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    jo hive

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    5
    SafyHallanFarah
    United States2 years ago
  • I love to hear these friends talk

    Jo rules

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    lola damsorrow
    United States2 years ago

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Completely Unconsoled: Tony Tulathimutte on Alasdair Gray’s 1982, Janine
Q: So does it have a plot or is that not a relevant or helpful question?
The plot doesn't even come into the book until about 250 or some odd pages into it.
Completely Unconsoled: Tony Tulathimutte on Alasdair Gray’s 1982, Janine
Q: Were you 18 in 2007, Tony?
No, I was, how old was I? I was 24.
Steamrolled: Hanna Phifer on Raven Leilani’s Luster
Q: Is it kind of hopeful or is it?
Hanna expresses uncertainty in describing the book as happy or sad, mentioning it leaves a sense of something nearing sadness or repression for the characters.
Steamrolled: Hanna Phifer on Raven Leilani’s Luster
Q: What made you hang on to it?
Hanna emphasizes that it has been a long time since she read steadily, and she was able to rebuild her reading habits, which allowed her to revisit Luster.

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2. Lauren Michele Jackson
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