Ep. 77 | Reading Women Award 2019 | Nonfiction Shortlist

Autumn and Kendra announce the 2019 Reading Women Award Shortlist for Nonfiction.

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Things Mentioned

• Reading Women Award Honorable Mentions

• Interview with T Kira Madden

• Interview with Tressie McMillan Cottom

• Discussion of The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang

• Interview with Mira Jacob

Books Mentioned

• The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang (Graywolf)

• Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden (Bloomsbury)

• Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom (The New Press)

• Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob (One World)

• I’m Telling the Truth, But I’m Lying by Bassey Ikpi (Harper Perennial)

• My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education by Jennine Capó Crucet (Picador)

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Music by Isaac Greene