Book Club Bonus: No Ordinary Assignment with Jane Ferguson
Pantsuit Politics
Sarah & Beth
4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Today, we're sharing a special episode with you. This conversation with Jane Ferguson was released as part of our fall 2023 book club for our Premium members. As we wrap up our winter cycle this week and prepare to launch our summer cycle, we thought it would be fun to share a glimpse into the type of book club content our Premium members are receiving. You can join us and get access to all past and future book club content - plus our plethora of regular Premium content - at patreon.com/pantsuitpolitics.
Jane Ferguson's memoir, No Ordinary Assignment, details her life as a war reporter. Her courageous work is breath-taking and inspiring. We hope you love this conversation and, if you haven't read the book, that you pick it up as well.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Beth. I am so excited to share with you my conversation with Jane Ferguson about her incredible book, No Ordinary Assignment. |
| 0:08.0 | I loved reading this book. I loved talking with Jane. It's so exciting to get to bring a book to even greater life when you meet with the author and get to ask all the questions that you were scribbling in the margins as you were reading. |
| 0:20.0 | These are the types of conversations that you can hear as part of our premium community |
| 0:25.0 | content which we like to call the Spice Cabinet. |
| 0:27.7 | You'll hear another great author interview with Marissa Moss on our premium channels today. |
| 0:32.3 | We hope you'll join us there by joining on Apple |
| 0:34.6 | podcast subscriptions or Patreon. Thank you so much. Well, we're talking to a group of people, many of whom will have read the book by the time they |
| 0:50.6 | hear this conversation. |
| 0:52.5 | And I know that they're going to have lots of questions |
| 0:55.3 | about your writing process. |
| 0:56.7 | So I wanted to start there if we could. |
| 0:59.0 | As I was reading the book, I have two daughters. |
| 1:01.8 | They both were very interested in what I was reading because you have such an arresting cover and my older daughter Jane has been talking to me about what's in the book and what should she understand about it and I said this is one that I would really love for you to read and it made me wonder as I'm telling my seventh grader you should read this book, |
| 1:23.0 | who you wrote this book for? |
| 1:24.6 | Who was the audience that you had in mind |
| 1:26.4 | as you were working on the book? |
| 1:28.0 | Thank you for asking that question |
| 1:29.5 | because I love that question. |
| 1:32.0 | You know, I wrote the book for for anybody really you know I very |
| 1:38.5 | much so didn't want to write just for foreign correspondence to read you know |
| 1:42.1 | as journalists read each other's books. |
| 1:44.3 | I wanted predominantly though to really write this book for young people. |
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