Ep 31 - Short Stories are Like a Box of Chocolates and Interview with author Amal El-Mohtar!

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🗓️ 11 January 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Brea and Mallory talk about short fiction and interview author Amal El-Mohtar! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com. Reading Glasses Tote Bags Sponsor - SquareSpace Offer Code - GLASSES Links - Tor.Com New Yorker The Rumpus Apex Magazine Kindle Singles Nevertheless She Persisted by Tor.Com Book Light Amal El-Mohtar "Seasons of Glass and Iron" The Starlit Wood Amal's Twitter Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Books Mentioned - City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty The Misfit’s Manifesto by Lidia Yukanvitch Get In Trouble by Kelly Link St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell Dead Trees Give No Shelter by Wil Wheaton Best American Short Stories 2017 The Doll Collection Bloodchild by Octavia Butler What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi Revenge by Yoko Ogawa Gutshot by Amelia Gray Starlings by Jo Walton Tender by Sofia Samatar Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado The Weight of Words - story by Maria Dahvana Headley Telling The Map by Christopher Rowe Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison

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0:00.0	You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better.
0:09.5	I'm writer, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory Omera.
0:12.2	And I'm Brea Grant, actress filmmaker, and e-reader.
0:14.0	This episode we're talking about short fiction and interviewing author Amal El Motar.
0:18.0	But first, what are you reading, Bria?
0:20.0	I am reading, The City of Brass.
0:22.0	Oh! By essay. I am reading the city of brass oh by essay chakra borty it's a gin book a
0:27.5	jen book d j-I-n-n oh yeah. Oh, yeah, you know what's weird?
0:34.4	Is it I keep doing that too?
0:35.8	Where I'm like, it's about Jen.
0:37.0	And people like, who's that?
0:38.2	And like, because people think I'm saying, J-E-N?
0:41.4	It's like Jen.
0:41.9	Like Jen, my friend Jen. I'm reading a book all about my friend Jen.
0:44.4	You know, Jen. Janiston. Jen, there could be a gin name Jen.
0:48.0	They, their names are never Jen.
0:51.0	They're names are never Jen. Their names are Jen. Their names are never Jen.
0:55.1	You cannot. The only rule about being a Jen is you cannot be named Jen.
0:58.8	That is the one rule. No, actually, let me tell you. In city of Brass,
1:02.1	there's a lot of rules about being a jet.
1:03.6	Oh, so many rules. It is a I I really wanted an escape a book to escape into and this is a great one
1:11.9	And it's basically I'm only I'm maybe
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