You are listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better.

I'm writer, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory Omera.

And I'm Bria Grant, actress filmmaker, and e-reader.

This episode, we're exploring the world of reader fashion

and interviewing author Sarah Kuhn.

But first, what are you reading, Bria?

Oh, I am reading this book which I just started called

the refrigerator monologues by Kat Valente. Yes and the illustrator is

Annie Wu but basically it's a collection of stories

that are all kind of linked.

They're all superheroy.

So if you are into that genre of reading,

then it is definitely for you.

It's for the points of views of the wives and

girlfriends and women in the superhero world or anyone who has been

refrigerated, which is not a term I was familiar with, is a comic book term for

women who are killed, raped,

brainwashed, driven mad, disabled, or had their powers taken away so that a male

superhero storyline will progress, which is actually pretty common trope.

Yeah I'm really you know like he's getting revenge for his girlfriend that's the first chapter is that he's already

remarried and stuff but he's still getting revenge for this girl and and she's you know

but it all they're all speaking from like from beyond the

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