Spring Books

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

A deep dive into some of the new books we're most excited about, with a focus on nonfiction: Brotopia by Emily Chang, Just the Funny Parts by Nell Scovell and Your Art Will Save Your Life by Beth Pickens.

Reading List:

Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang

Just the Funny Parts: And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking Into the Hollywood Boys’ Club by Nell Scovell

Your Art Will Save Your Life by Beth Pickens

Emergency Contact by Mary HK Choi

The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

Back Talk by Danielle Lazarin

The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend!
0:02.0	A podcast for long-distance festies everywhere.
0:04.3	I'm Amina Tusso, and I'm Anne Friedman.
0:06.8	And we're in the studio together!
0:09.2	Same room. Oh my god.
0:11.6	Same room. It is snowing hard.
0:15.6	Storms are raging because this is what happens when I come to the East Coast in spring.
0:20.8	It's not spring anymore.
0:22.1	I know Hurricane Anne.
0:23.9	Hurricane Anne.
0:25.2	Northeastern Anne.
0:26.8	It's a lot. Okay.
0:28.1	What are we talking about today Anne?
0:29.6	Oh, it's actually kind of a perfect bad weather topic, which is BOOKS!
0:33.3	BOOKS!
0:35.4	You know how I feel about reading.
0:36.7	Reading and writing is over. Two years tops.
0:38.7	Oh my god. Don't even lie to me. You read lots.
0:40.7	You read a lot.
0:41.6	It's over in two years.
0:43.5	Max.
0:44.1	Okay. All right. The dying gasp of reading is something we are celebrating today
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