Novel Gazing Podcast

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How to Read Literary Fiction that Doesn't Want You to Read It Feb 11, 2020

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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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Translated / To Be Translated Literary Fiction Jan 28, 2020

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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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Is Harry Potter Literary Fiction? Jan 14, 2020

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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?

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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