Spring Books 2019

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

We talk about books we love in genres we don't often cover: poetry, graphic memoir, short stories and essays. Ali Liebegott talks with Ann about her poetry collection, The Summer of Dead Birds. Aminatou interviews Mira Jacob about her graphic memoir, Good Talk. Gina speaks with Xuan Juliana Wang about her collection of short stories, Home Remedies. And Briallen Hopper joins Aminatou to talk about her book of essays, Hard to Love. What are you reading? Tag #cygbooks to share your current faves.

Reading List:

The Summer of Dead Birds by Ali Liebegott

Good Talk by Mira Jacob

Hybrida by Tina Chang

Home Remedies by Xuan Juliana Wang

Hard to Love by Briallen Hopper

The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory (coming in July)

Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend, a podcast for long distance festies everywhere.
0:04.1	I'm Amina Tussaud.
0:05.6	And I'm Anne Friedman.
0:07.6	Hi Anne Friedman.
0:09.6	Is that time again?
0:11.6	Spring books baby, we've been reading.
0:13.8	Oh, we are always reading. I love it.
0:16.8	We have so many incredible authors on the show today, so we should get right into it.
0:21.5	On this week's agenda, we are talking about books. Poetry with Ali Lieba God,
0:25.8	graphic memoir from Mira Jacob, Jita Tuck to Swin, Juliana Wang, about her short story collection,
0:31.6	and essays by Breel & Hopper.
0:56.6	So first up, Anne, you talk to very good pal of the podcast, Ali Lieba God, about her
1:06.0	brand spanking new poetry collection, The Summer of Dead Birds.
1:12.8	Right, and be our voice.
1:15.2	Allie, thank you for being on CYG.
1:16.9	Thank you for having me.
1:19.0	Your book made me feel all the feelings.
1:21.6	Sorry.
1:22.8	No, I think it's very good.
1:24.8	I mean, don't apologize for making me feel feeling.
1:27.9	I feel like it's a work of emotional terrorism to put this book in the world.
1:34.5	I mean, did it feel like emotional terrorism to write it?
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