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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep.99 – Interview with Alanna Okun, author of The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater

Published 28 Mar 2018 by Gin Jenny

Happy Wednesday! It’s two author interviews in a row — I know y’all are shook. This week, we were delighted to welcome author Alanna Okun to the podcast this week to talk about her new book The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater (out now from Flatiron Books).

The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater

You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!

Episode 99

You can find Alanna on Twitter or at her website, and the book is available wherever you get your books.

Get at me on Twitter, email the podcast, and friend me (Gin Jenny) and Whiskey Jenny on Goodreads. Or if you wish, you can find us on iTunes (and if you enjoy the podcast, give us a good rating! We appreciate it very very much).

Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour

Transcript is available under the jump!

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SFF Short Fiction Project: March Update

Published 26 Mar 2018 by Gin Jenny

Maybe what I will do is one post per month about short SFF! Won’t that be nice? And we can all learn and grow together, and I can tell you what I have read that month that was particularly excellent. Uncanny Magazine‘s March/April issue came out (hooray), and I was immediately all in on A. T. Greenblatt’s story “And Yet” (4600 words) which is about a newly minted physicist who comes back to the haunted house from their childhood, hoping to study the parallel universes contained within it. I cannot describe how pleasing this story was to me, on so…

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I Know Why People Watch The Bachelor(ette)

Published 20 Mar 2018 by Gin Jenny

Don’t worry, everyone, I have cracked the case of Why Feminists Sometimes Enjoy Watching The Bachelor Franchise, and you will rejoice to hear that it does not suggest that viewers are morally compromised, although we still might be. Or in other news, I stayed up seventeen minutes past my bedtime the other night reading Amy Kaufman’s book Bachelor Nation. Kaufman is a journalist with a long history of covering The Bachelor and its sister shows, which means she gets lots of terrific interviews with contestants and producers and staff. It also means that her book’s a quick and accessible read,…

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Lili Loofbourow Changes the Game: A Links Round-Up

Published 16 Mar 2018 by Gin Jenny

This concept of “the male glance” is p. devastating, and the more I think about it, the more I feel it’s going to change the way I conceptualize art and art criticism. Lili Loofbourow on the underrating of art by women, which by the WAY, the fact that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend isn’t winning every prize every year is proof positive that the “we” Loofbourow identifies is unable to recognize the intentionality of female performance AGH that show is so fucking good. This is the story of a woman whose childhood was filled with disruptions and changes that she didn’t understand —…

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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep. 98: Interview with Andrew Santella, Author of Soon

Published 14 Mar 2018 by Gin Jenny

Happy Wednesday! This week we’re delighted to welcome Andrew Santella, the author of Soon: An Overdue History of Procrastination, from Leonardo and Darwin to You and Me, which is out now from Dey Street / HarperCollins. He talks to us about procrastination, freelance writing, and coaching a softball team.

Soon

You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!

Episode 98

You can find Andrew Santella on Twitter or at his website, and the book is available wherever you get your books.

Get at me on Twitter, email the podcast, and friend me (Gin Jenny) and Whiskey Jenny on Goodreads. Or if you wish, you can find us on iTunes (and if you enjoy the podcast, give us a good rating! We appreciate it very very much).

Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour

Transcript is coming soon and will be available under the jump!

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I’ll Be Your Blue Sky, Marisa de los Santos

Published 12 Mar 2018 by Gin Jenny

My favorite two of Marisa de los Santos’s books are her first two, the predecessors to her latest, I’ll Be Your Blue Sky, so I was excited to discover the further adventures of Clare Hobbes, first seen as a plucky waif in de los Santos’s debut, Love Walked In. The commonality with all of this author’s books — and the reason I keep going back to her in times of strife which this presidential administration certainly is — is that she writes most wonderfully and tenderly about love. Love of people, certainly, but also love of things and books and…

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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep. 97: What We Missed in 2017 and the Third Annual Hatening

Published 28 Feb 2018 by Gin Jenny

Happy Wednesday! I am delighted to bring you the first! ever! podcast! that Whiskey Jenny edited like a damn genius. My voice sounds slightly weird on this podcast, for reasons neither of us have been able to figure out, but it is not Whiskey Jenny’s fault. It is weird on the raw audio. I messed up something. Who knows. It’s in God’s hands. This episode, we’re talking about media we missed (and caught up) in 2017, and then we are commencing the Hatening by reading Jenn Ashworth’s book A Kind of Intimacy. Whiskey Jenny hated it.

A Kind of Intimacy

You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!

Episode 97

Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around.

1:12 – What we’re reading
10:37 – What we missed in 2017
29:39 – What we caught up on in 2017
41:01 – A Kind of Intimacy, Jenn Ashworth

Here is Patrick Stewart answering a question about domestic violence in a way that made me cry. Here is Elsa Sjunneson-Henry on watching the movie The Shape of Water as a deaf-blind person. Here is the wonderful Tiffany Haddish talking about doing a Groupon with Will and Jada Pinkett Smith.

Get at me on Twitter, email the podcast, and friend me (Gin Jenny) and Whiskey Jenny on Goodreads. Or if you wish, you can find us on iTunes (and if you enjoy the podcast, give us a good rating! We appreciate it very very much).

Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour

Transcript is coming soon and will be available under the jump.

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Something on Sunday: 2/23/18

Published 25 Feb 2018 by Gin Jenny

Happy Sunday, beautiful friends! Are you having an okay weekend so far? Are you watching Face Off, the greatest reality competition show of all time, ten seasons of which are now streaming on Hulu? Because if not, you should be. Face Off is incredible. Get on it. In the meantime, I’ve got some stuff to share that’s making me happy this week. Happy about: Having the opportunity to see Kara Walker’s latest installation, “Katastwof Karavan” at Algiers Point this weekend. Inspired by the history of Algiers Point, where slaves were held after arriving from Africa, Kara Walker built this caravan…

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Seeing Kara Walker Tomorrow: A Links Round-Up

Published 23 Feb 2018 by Gin Jenny

I don’t have any links about Kara Walker. But y’all should be excited for me because I’m seeing a Kara Walker thing tomorrow and Kara Walker will be there. So hooray. My only sadness is that the way the exhibition is, there won’t be a gift shop. But anyway! On to the links! The cost of reporting while female. I always love reading the Lithub discussions of how book designers come up with their book covers. This is a particularly good one. If you want to read romance, but you’re not sure where to start, Kelly Faircloth has your recs.…

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