Talking Books
Everything is Fine
Jennifer Romolini and Kim France
4.8 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Join Tally and Kim as they chat with Lisa Lucas, executive director of the National Book Foundation, and incoming senior vice president of the Knopf imprints Pantheon and Schocken Books. The discussion is all about reading recommendations, from what to read if you've got a pandemic-related attention-span problem to underrated authors, and it's all a lot of fun.
Here are the books mentioned, all linked on Bookshop.org that will channel your order through an indie bookstore in the US: The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir by Andre Leon Talley, Luster by Raven Leilani, Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, A Burning by Megha Majumdar, Telephone by Percival Everett, Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu, Books by Cathy Park Hong, The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples, Wow, No Thank-You by Samatha Irby, The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I by Robert Caro, The Yellow House by Sarah Broom, Guts by Raina Telgemeir, New People by Danzi Senna, Caucasia by Danzi Senna, Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, a book by Alice Munro, The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, Working by Studs Terkel, Just Us by Claudia Rankine,
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone it's Abby Clancy here the host of Exhibit A podcast and I'm teaming up with |
| 0:04.6 | Barclay Card Payments. We're here to talk to you about toxic hustle culture. Did you know that |
| 0:09.3 | 60% of business owners say they feel exhausted and drained from where? |
| 0:13.4 | So as business owners, what steps can we take to combat this trend? |
| 0:17.8 | That's where Barclay Card payments comes in. |
| 0:20.5 | As champions of small businesses, Barclaycard payments are rallying against toxic hustle culture by helping business owners to identify those red flags before they become harmful. |
| 0:30.0 | On the Barclaycard website, you can answer some simple questions to help check if your business is on the right side of the puzzle. |
| 0:36.0 | And from there you can help access loads of free online resources to help you develop healthy habits, |
| 0:41.0 | a positive working culture, become a more goal orientated and of course |
| 0:45.3 | working smarter, not harder. |
| 0:47.3 | So if you're a business owner like me, you can start by visiting the Barclay Card |
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| 0:54.4 | personalized support plan. Hi and |
| 1:05.0 | I'm |
| 1:08.0 | a podcast for women over 40 I'm Talia Vakassis and I'm Kim France |
| 1:12.0 | So today we have Lisa Lucas the outgoing |
| 1:16.4 | executive director of the National Book Foundation and incoming senior |
| 1:20.0 | VP at Noth Double Day. Welcome, Lisa. |
| 1:23.4 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:24.9 | Thanks for being here. |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah, those are two really cool jobs. |
| 1:29.4 | Did you always know you wanted to go into publishing? Absolutely not. I mean I think I get asked a lot about like what I wanted to be when I grew up when I was a kid and I don't think I had any real sense at all. |
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