Summer Books 2018
Call Your Girlfriend
Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow
4.7 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
We're at the library, on the beach, and by the pool with our noses in books/kindles. And you know we're all about the stories that share and expand on women's experiences. This week we hear from Jessica Knoll about The Favorite Sister, her novel full of murder and scandal set in the world of reality TV. Glynnis MacNicol's memoir No One Tells You This is full of dispatches on life after 40 when you don't follow a spouse-and-kids blueprint. Yrsa Daley-Ward is perhaps best known as a poet, and her new memoir The Terrible uses that precision of language and feeling to explore her youth.
Reading list:
Novels by Jessica Knoll: Luckiest Girl Alive, The Favorite Sister
...and essays: I Want to Be Rich and I’m Not Sorry, What I Know (trigger warning: description of sexual assault)
No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol
Bone and The Terrible by Yrsa Daley-Ward
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend, a podcast for long distance festies everywhere. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm Amina Tuso and I'm Anne Friedman. On this week's agenda, we're talking books. |
| 0:12.4 | Everything we're reading this summer or at least a few favorites. Things we're taking to the |
| 0:16.5 | beach, things we're using to dive deeper and think harder about ourselves and books that are |
| 0:22.5 | holding up a mirror to our experiences. We talk to Glynis McNichol, Yersa Daily Ward, and Jessica Null. |
| 0:30.0 | Call Your Girlfriend. It's time you had the talk. Give your reasons. Say it's not her fault. |
| 0:48.1 | Ready, you just met somebody new. First up, Amina chatted with Jessica Null about her new novel, |
| 0:59.2 | The Favorite Sister. It is what People Magazine calls a juicy, who-done-it staged behind the scenes |
| 1:05.2 | of a reality show. My name is Jessica Null and I'm an author and also a screenwriter is |
| 1:13.2 | a new kind of dimension to my career that's developed from my first book. I'm so happy to hear you |
| 1:19.6 | say that because I just read both of your books and I just kept screaming, where is the movie? |
| 1:26.7 | So I heard of the first one who's been- Because we met together, okay. Where is the movie? |
| 1:32.5 | Where is the movie? Okay, where are the movies? I love how this book talk to movie talk. |
| 1:38.4 | Yeah, exactly. There's actually things going on with both books. So the first book, |
| 1:45.4 | Lucky Eskirl, I came out in 2015 and it was optioned by Lionsgate with Reese Witherspoon and |
| 1:51.6 | Bruna Papandria producing and that's been three years now and I adapted it myself. |
| 1:57.7 | That's awesome. It felt like you were like continuing the story in a way because the screen adaptation |
| 2:03.9 | is like another deeper dive into the character and the story but so we had that approve- the |
| 2:10.5 | script was approved by the studio and since then it's just been a struggle of finding a director |
| 2:18.1 | and we are actually close with someone right now. I can't- |
| 2:21.6 | Failures crossed. Don't say it. We're not gonna change things. Yeah, fingers crossed. |
| 2:26.4 | Yeah, crossed. So it's kind of that you were making the time for us to- |
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