Fall Books 2020

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Do you need something to read (and take your mind away from doom-scrolling)? We talk with Nessa Rapport about her novel Evening and Alice Wong, editor of the anthology, Disability Visibility.

We're also reading (or re-reading): Zadie Smith essays, NK Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy, Angela's Ashes, and Parakeet by Marie-Helene Bertino.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend.
0:04.0	A podcast for long distance besties everywhere.
0:07.1	I'm Amina Tussaud.
0:09.1	And I'm Ann Friedman.
0:10.8	Hey Ann Friedman.
0:12.6	Hey, I almost jumped in to be like, hey you're Amina Tussaud.
0:16.5	On today's agenda, we are talking ball books.
0:23.0	And we have two special guests, Nessa Rappaport, author of the novel, Evening and Alice Wong,
0:28.6	editor of the anthology, Disability Visibility.
0:31.4	I am very excited to talk about books with you today because we're not talking about
1:00.9	our books.
1:01.9	I love other books.
1:02.9	No, God, doesn't it feel so good not to talk about your own book?
1:09.9	Listen, I love and I'm honored that people want to talk about our book and I do love our
1:14.4	book but I am so ready for other people's books, OPP.
1:18.6	Oh my gosh, I'm sick of her.
1:20.6	Okay.
1:21.6	And what you're reading, tell me what you're reading.
1:23.5	And I am trying to read less and watch more movies right now which is such a different
1:28.6	mode for me as you know.
1:31.4	And it's been like the TV watching has been very satisfying.
1:35.6	The reading though has been like very, very, very sparse since we released our book.
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