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In this week’s episode, Kendra and Sachi discuss books around this month’s theme of Nature Writing! Our guest spot will be on the next episode, so stay tuned! Thanks to Our Sponsors! Go to http://talkspace.com and use the code READINGWOMEN for $100 off your first month. Try MUBI for 30 Days at MUBI.com/ReadingWomen. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Things MentionedInterview with on Thresholds Books Mentioned Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past by Jessica J. Lee Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer The Way Through the Woods: Of Mushrooms and Mourning by Long Litt Woon, Translated by Barbara J. Haveland World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Wha

In this week’s episode, Kendra talks with Pik-Shuen Fung about her book, Ghost Forest, which out now from One World. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books MentionedGhost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung Pick-Shuen Recommends A Feather on a Breath of God by Sigrid Nunez How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa The Tenderness of Stones by Marion Fayolle Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi About the AuthorPik-Shuen Fung is a Canadian writer and artist living in New York City. She has received fellowships and residencies from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Kundiman, the Millay Colony, and Storyknife. She has an MFA in Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts and a BA from Brown University. Ghost Forest is her first book. Website | Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho

In this week’s episode, Kendra and Sumaiyya discuss The Parisian and Against the Loveless World. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Things Mentioned Document of Resources about Palestine Palestine Resources Decolonize Palestine Templates to Contact Your Elected Representative Palestine Book Awards On Palestine: A Comprehensive Reading List Books Mentioned Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa The Parisian by Isabella Hammad CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com.  SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Miki Saito with Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week’s episode, Joce talks with Tia Williams about her novel, Seven Days in June, which out now from Grand Central Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned Seven Days in June by Tia Williams Tia Recommends Beach Read by Emily Henry One Day by David Nicholls The Idea of You by Robinne Lee Thanks to Our Sponsors! Try MUBI for 30 Days at MUBI.com/ReadingWomen. Author Bio Tia Williams had a fifteen-year career as a beauty editor for magazines including Elle, Glamour, and Essence. In 2004, she pioneered the beauty blog industry with Shake Your Beauty. She wrote the bestselling novel, The Accidental Diva, and penned two YA novels: It Chicks, and Sixteen Candles. Her award-winning novel, The Perfect Find, will be adapted into a Netflix film starring Gabrielle Union. Tia i

In this week’s episode, Kendra and Sumaiyya, with special guest, Yara, discuss books by Palestinian women writers. Thanks to Our Sponsors! Go to http://talkspace.com and use the code READINGWOMEN for $100 off your first month. Try MUBI for 30 Days at MUBI.com/ReadingWomen. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Things Mentioned Document of Resources about Palestine Palestine Resources Decolonize Palestine Templates to Contact Your Elected Representative Palestine Book Awards Q&A with Hala Alyan about Salt Houses Interview with Hala Alyan about The Arsonists’ City Books Mentioned We Are Not Here to be Bystanders by Linda Sarsour Baddawi by Leila Abdelrazaq Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa The Parisian by Isabella Hammad The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan Yara Rec

In this week’s episode, Kendra talks with Daisy Hernández about her book, The Kissing Bug, which out now from Tin House. Read the Transcript Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! New Merch!Share your love for reading women authors with the world! Our custom Reading Women t-shirts are available several distinct styles with a wide range of colors and sizes so you encourage people reclaim the bookshelf! - SHOP - Things Mentioned “At the Intersection of Journalism and Memoir: A Reading List” (Lit Hub) Books Mentioned A Cup of Water Under My Bed by Daisy Hernández The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease by Daisy Hernández Daisy Recommends The Book of Delights by Ross Gay All the Agents and Saints by Stephanie Elizondo Griest CONTACT

In this week’s episode, Kendra talks with Kristen Arnett about her most recent novel, With Teeth, which out now from Riverhead. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! New Merch!Share your love for reading women authors with the world! Our custom Reading Women t-shirts are available several distinct styles with a wide range of colors and sizes so you encourage people reclaim the bookshelf! - SHOP - Books Mentioned With Teeth by Kristen Arnett Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett Kristen Recommends Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison Author BioKristen Arnett is the author of With Teeth: A Novel (Riverhead Books, 2021) and the NYT bestselling debut novel Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, 2019) which was a finalist for the Lambda

In this week’s episode, Kendra and Jaclyn discuss Room for a Stranger and The Erratics. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! New Merch!Share your love for reading women authors with the world! Our custom Reading Women t-shirts are available several distinct styles with a wide range of colors and sizes so you encourage people reclaim the bookshelf! - SHOP - Things Mentioned Discussion of Food in Room for a Stranger (Sydney Review of Books) Interview with Melanie Chang (Liminal Magazine) Interview with Vickie Laveau-Harvie Books Mentioned Room for a Stranger by Melanie Cheng The Erratics by Vickie Laveau-Harvie CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com.  SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Miki Saito with Isaac Greene Learn more about

In this week’s episode, Kendra talks with Jenny Lawson about her most recent book, Broken (in the Best Possible Way), which out now from Henry Holt. Thanks to our sponsors! Go to AncientNutrition.com right now and enter promo code readingwomen at checkout. Listen to Orphan Black: The Next Chapter, available wherever you get your podcasts. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Things MentionedNowhere Bookshop Books Mentioned Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson Broken (in the Best Possible Way) by Jenny Lawson Jenny Recommends Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom Sorrowland by River

In this week’s episode, Kendra, Jaclyn, and the rest of the Reading Women team share books by or about older women. Thanks to Our Sponsors! Get $10 off StoryWorth by going to storyworth.com/readingwomen. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Things Mentioned List of Reading Women’s Episodes Interview with Vickie Laveau-Harvie Books Mentioned The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun by Sarah Ladipo Manyika Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl Crime & Punctuation by Kaitlynn Dunnett Room for a Stranger by Melanie Cheng The Erratics by Vickie Laveau-Harvie Currently Reading Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray by Anita Heiss Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us h

In this week’s episode, Sachi talks with Elizabeth Miki Brina, the author of Speak, Okinawa, which out now from Knopf. Thanks to our sponsors! Go to AncientNutrition.com right now and enter promo code readingwomen at checkout. Go to http://talkspace.com and use the code READINGWOMEN for $100 off your first month. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books MentionedSpeak, Okinawa by Elizabeth Miki Brina Author BioElizabeth Miki Brina is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Bread Loaf Scholarship and a New York State Summer Writers Institute Scholarship. She currently lives and teaches in New Orleans. Buy the Book CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com.  SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Miki Saito with Isaac Greene Learn more about you

In this week’s episode, Kendra and Sachi discuss Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen and Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls. Plus, special guest T Kira Madden recommends two books by Native Hawaiian authors. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Things Mentioned Interview with T Kira Madden Book Recommendations: Happy Asian Pacific Heritage Month! Books By Maori and Pasifika Authors Redefining Realness by Janet Mock We Need Diverse Books Blog Post: Resources for Pacific Islander Heritage Month Books Mentioned Hawaii's Story By Hawaii's Queen by Lili'uokalani Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Mahealani Madden T Kira Recommends Shark Dialogues by Kiana Davenport This Is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila About Our GuestT Kira Mahealani Madden is a lesbian APIA writ

In this week’s episode, Kendra talks with Elissa Washuta the author of White Magic, which out now from Tin House Thanks to our sponsors! Go to AncientNutrition.com right now and enter promo code readingwomen at checkout. Go to Acorn.tv and use the code ReadingWomen to get your first thirty days free! Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books MentionedWhite Magic by Elissa Washuta Elissa Recommends Other Worlds Here: Honoring Native Women's Writing in Contemporary Anarchist Movements by Theresa Warburton The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Author BioElissa Washuta is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and a nonfiction writer. She is the author of White Magic, My Body Is a Book of Rules, and Starvation Mode.

In this week’s episode, Kendra, Sachi, and special guest Chloe Fergusson-Tibble share books by Pacific Islander and Pasifika authors. Thanks to Our Sponsors! Go to http://talkspace.com and use the code READINGWOMEN for $100 off your first month.  Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Things Mentioned #PasifikaReadathonChallenge We Need Diverse Books Blog Post: Resources for Pacific Islander Heritage Month Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner’s Website Books Mentioned Frangipani by Célestine Vaite Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner Hawaii's Story By Hawaii's Queen by Lili'uokalani Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Mahealani Madden Chloe Recommends Auē by Becky Manawatu Poukahangatus by Tayi Tibble Currently Reading All Who Live on Islands by Rose L

Kendra talks with Julia Turshen the author of Simply Julia, which out now from Harper Wave. Thanks to our sponsors! FSAstore.com amazon.com/readingwomen Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned Simply Julia by Julia Turshen Julia Recommends In Bibi's Kitchen by Hawa Hassan Snacking Cakes by Yossy Arefi What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordan Author Bio Julia Turshen is the bestselling author of Now & Again (named the Best Cookbook of 2018 by Amazon), Feed the Resistance (named the Best Cookbook of 2017 by Eater), and Small Victories (named one of the Best Cookbooks of 2016 by the New York Times and NPR). Her forthcoming cookbook, Simply Julia, will be out on March 2, 2021. Julia has also coauthored numerous cookbooks and has written for The New

In this week’s episode, Kendra and Sumaiyya discuss Once Upon and Eid and The Girl and the Ghost. Thanks to Our Sponsors! FSAstore.com Get $10 off StoryWorth by going to storyworth.com/readingwomen Find The Henna Artist or pre-order The Secret Keeper of Jaipur wherever books are sold. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned Once Upon an Eid edited by SK Ali and Aisha Saeed The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf Currently Reading More to the Story by Hena Khan Rumaysa by Radiya Hafiza Same Sun Here by Silas House and Neela Vaswani City of Ghost by Victoria Schwab Tunnel of Bones by Victoria Schwab Bridge of Souls by Victoria Schwab Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com.  SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter | Facebook | I

Kendra talks with Quan Barry the author of We Ride Upon Sticks, which is out now in paperback from Vintage. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Thanks to our sponsors! FSAstore.com Go to audible.com/readingwomen for a 30-day trial Books Mentioned We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry Quan Recommends Breath by James Nestor Red Clocks by Leni Zumas A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet Author Bio Raised in the coastal town of Danvers, Massachusetts, Quan Barry is the author of the novel She Weeps Each Time You’re Born and of four books of poetry, including the collection Water Puppets, which won the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and was a PEN Open Book finalist. She lives in Wisconsin and teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Buy the Book CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email u

In this week’s episode, Kendra, Sumaiyya, and special guest Afoma Umesi share books around April’s theme, Middle Grade Magic. Thanks to Our Sponsors! Go to http://talkspace.com and use the code READINGWOMEN for $100 off your first month. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Things Mentioned Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books Mentioned A Place at the Table by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan Ghost Squad by Claribel A. Ortega Once Upon an Eid edited by SK Ali and Aisha Saeed The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf Afoma Recommends Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus Currently Reading Boy, Everywhere by A.M. Dassu Amina’s Song by Hena Khan About Our GuestAfoma Umesi is a writer, editor, and the founder of the kidlit website Reading Middle Grad

Kendra talks with Hala Alyan the author of The Arsonists’ City, which is out now from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Thanks so our sponsor! FSAstore.com Things Mentioned Q&A with Hala Alyan about Salt Houses Books Mentioned Salt Houses by Hala Alyan The Arsonists’ City by Hala Alyan Hala Recommends The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Author Bio Hala Alyan is the author of the novel Salt Houses, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize, as well as the forthcoming novel The Arsonists’ City, and four award-winning collections of poetry, most recently The Twenty-Ninth Year. Her work has been published by the New Yorker, the Academy of American Poets, Lit Hub, The New York Times Book Re

In this week’s episode, Kendra and Jaclyn discuss Fairest and Detranstion, Baby. Thanks to Our Sponsors! FSAstore.com Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. Things Mentioned Debutiful, Interview with Torrey Peters Books Are Magic Event with Torrey Peters Roxane Gay’s Audacity Newsletter Books Mentioned Fairest by Meredith Talusan Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com.  SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Miki Saito with Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices