Podcast: The Bookstore

It’s like a book club, but we actually read the book. Join hosts Becca and Corinne as they recreate their days working and hanging out at their local independent book store.

50 – Sula

This week we read Sula by Toni Morrison and discuss the criticisms Morrison has faced throughout her impressive career. Our next book discussion will be Women Talking by Miriam Toews.

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49.5 – Authors Behaving Badly

There will be discussion of stuff that is not appropriate for children. And there will be brief mentions of eating disorders, just in case that’s not for you. We just can’t turn down a scandal. This week what to do when you didn’t fact check your book…

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49 – The Dud Avocado

This week we read The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy, despite Corinne calling it “The Dove Avocado” literally seconds into the episode.  Next time we will be discussing Sula by Toni Morrison. You can find it at your local bookstore or library and…

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48.5 – The Best Beach Reads Are Whatever You Read On A Beach

Here’s a little shorty for you guys. This week we’re excited about books that are coming out this summer, including a number of full length books from some of our favorite journalists and critics at large. We’re here to break the stigma about summer…

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48 – The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

This week we discuss the complicated task that is reviewing a memoir after we read The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esme Weijun Wang. Our next read will be The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy.

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47.5 – Audiobooks, Like Podcasts But Longer and Different

By popular demand: we discuss audiobooks, what we like, what we don’t and how to get them. Next time we will be discussing The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esme Weijun Wang. Get it at your local bookstore or library and read along…

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47 – Ghost Wall

This week in book news: a very Becca and Corinne house has hit the market in St. Clair Shores. For a one time Patreon donation of just $500k you can live in it with us. We also read and discussed Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss. Due to the length and nature…

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46.5 – How to Suppress Women’s Writing

We took a dive into some feminist literary criticism this week and read Joanna Russ’s How to Suppress Women’s Writing. It was published in 1983 and therefore focuses a lot on strictly women’s writing – but we contend these methods have been used…

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46 – The Friend

Join us this week for a discussion of Sigrid Nunez’s National Book Award Winning novel The Friend. In some ways it was a little too real for our real life events, and in others it wasn’t quite real enough. This episode contains more expletives…

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45.5 – Hot Takes Do Not Spark Joy

We’re back talking about our boy Bret Easton Ellis and a baffling/hilarious interview he did with the New Yorker. And we know you’ve been waiting for nearly three months as we finally respond to the Marie Kondo book drama. Sources:

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