Interview for IGTV | Jessica Handler

Hub City Press, 2019

This interview was originally recorded for IGTV, which you can find over on Reading Women's Instagram account @thereadingwomen. A special thanks to Hub City Book Shop for hosting us. And thanks to Jessica for sitting down with me to chat about her book The Magnetic Girl.

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Books Mentioned

• The Magnetic Girl by Jessica Handler

Jessica Recommends

• The In-Betweens by Mira Ptacin

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

• What You Have Is True by Carolyn Forche

• The Electric Woman by Tessa Fontaine

• Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith

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Author Bio

Jessica Handler is the author of Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing About Grief and Invisible Sisters: A Memoir, which was named one of the “Twenty Five Books All Georgians Should Read” and Atlanta Magazine’s “Best Memoir of 2009.” Jessica writes essays and nonfiction features that have appeared on NPR, in Tin House, Drunken Boat, Full Grown People, Brevity, Newsweek, The Washington Post, and More Magazine.

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Music by Isaac Greene