You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed

to help you read better.

I'm author and book devour Mallory O'Mara, and I'm Briette Grant, filmmaker and e-reader.

This episode we're figuring out who makes the rules for book genres.

Who's doing it?

Who's making those rules?

Who's making those rules?

Who's passing them down on a tablet from Mounts?

Oh no, I can't remember where that, you don't know either, it's a Bible thing.

Okay, and we're interviewing Mount Sinai.

That's what I was thinking, but it might be right.

I think that's right.

And we're interviewing Glory Adam, founder of Well Red, Black Girl.

But first, what are you reading, Briette?

I finished a book for my book club that I had never read a classic, a little horror classic,

called The Stepford Wives.

I read and I love that book.

Okay, I have definitely a spot in my horror genre reading, and this is why it's good I'm

in this book club, of sort of classics.

And I had never read this book, and the thing is, this crazy is that every person listening

right now is like, yeah, yeah, because The Stepford Wives is such a book that has entered

our lexicon, like the word Stepford Wives, and so it was interesting to read where it came

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