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Women Who Travel | Condé Nast Traveler

The Books Helping Us Escape Right Now

Women Who Travel | Condé Nast Traveler

Condé Nast Traveler

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

There may be no better time than winter to cozy up, ideally by a fire, with a stack of books and a cup of coffee (or something a little stronger). This particular winter, though, the escape and education we find through books will be even more necessary. Whether you're picking up books for yourself or sending hefty hardcovers to family and friends as holiday gifts, we have some suggestions that will distract, entertain, and inform—all by female writers spread across the world. (Translated Japanese authors were surprisingly popular this episode.) Joining us to share their favorite recent reads are Riverhead Books' associate publisher Jynne Dilling-Martin and Kalima DeSuze, activist and founder of the Cafe con Libros bookstore in Brooklyn. 

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0:00.0

Hi, everyone. It's Meredith. Before we get into this week's episode, the very last of the season, Lale and I just wanted to say thank you. We've been recording this podcast from our homes since March and are so grateful that you've joined us through this relatively travel list year. We've really enjoyed answering your questions, airing our own anxieties, and catching up with women we admire around the world and we hope you

0:22.0

have too. We'll be back in January with new episodes so be sure to subscribe so you're

0:26.8

notified when we drop the very first of the season.

0:33.6

Hi everyone and thanks for listening to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Condoness Traveller.

0:38.3

I'm Lale Aricoglu and with me as always is my co-host Meredith Carey.

0:43.3

Hi!

0:44.3

As we've mentioned in previous episodes we've released over the last few months,

0:48.3

books have served as both an escape and an education while we've been at home.

0:52.3

And as we look to winter, and oh God, we are looking towards winter,

0:56.5

which is both prime reading and book gifting season,

0:59.8

we thought we'd spend our final episode of the year

1:02.0

giving you just a few more ideas for your stack.

1:05.0

Joining us to share their picks are podcast regular,

1:07.7

Jin Dilling Martin, an associate publisher at Riverhead Books.

1:11.3

Hey, everyone.

1:13.0

And Kalima DeSooz, activist and founder of the Intersectional Feminist Bookstore Cafe Con Libros in Brooklyn.

1:20.2

Hi, everyone.

1:22.1

So before we get started with our picks, I wanted to ask you, Kalima, a question.

1:29.9

When we spoke to Emma Straub earlier this year, she spoke about the support and almost equally as important the patients that we need to be

1:35.7

showing our local bookstores. As people look to order books for the holidays and for themselves

1:42.0

or their families, what advice would you give them?

1:46.0

Oh my gosh.

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