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Call Your Girlfriend

Spring Books 2020

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Books are one of our go-to ways to stay sane, when bored, cabin-feverish or stressed out. And there are so many great authors and bookstores who need our support right now. At the moment, we're curled up with Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb and Thin Places by Jordan Kisner. Pro tip: if buying books isn't possible for you right now, your local public library probably uses the Libby app to get audiobooks and e-books to you, even while branches are closed.

Links

Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb
Bess is hilarious on Twitter
Thin Places by Jordan Kisner
Jordan's recent Atlantic article on reiki

Amina is also reading...

Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
Save Yourself by Cameron Esposito

Ann is also reading...

Glitter Up the Dark by Sasha Geffen
Look by Zan Romanoff

Bess is reading...

Topics of Conversation by Miranda Popkey
Elena Ferrante in lieu of taking melatonin

Jordan is reading...

On Immunity by Eula Bliss

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend!

0:03.0

A podcast for long, distance, besties everywhere.

0:07.0

I'm Amina Tussar, and I'm Anne Friedman.

0:11.0

We really wanted to take some time on the show this week,

0:14.0

and probably in the coming weeks,

0:16.0

to highlight authors who have books out

0:19.0

who might not get to go on Booktour.

0:21.0

Call Your Girlfriend!

0:27.0

It's time you have the talk!

0:31.0

Give your reasons!

0:35.0

Say it's not her fault!

0:39.0

Ready you!

0:41.0

Just met somebody new!

0:45.0

Tell her not to get upset!

0:49.0

What a perfect moment for books.

0:51.0

Truly a time not that everybody has more time in this moment,

0:54.0

but certainly in moments of feeling more isolated than normal,

0:59.0

I am always grateful to have a book at hand.

1:01.0

And so there is sort of a dual benefit of like,

1:04.0

yes, being able to highlight great work by great authors

1:07.0

who are maybe not getting all the opportunities

1:10.0

they otherwise would in this moment,

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