Dr. Gina Barreca is a women's humorist, author, writer, speaker and professor at UConn. Her latest book, "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?: Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times" is a collection of fun, feminist-infused essays. The feminist humor maven stopped by "Just the Right Book" right before the Women's Marches to chat with Roxanne about the women empowerment books that we all need to read.
Gina's site: http://ginabarreca.com/
Books in this episode:
"If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?": Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times By Gina Barreca
The Second Sex By Simone De Beauvoir
The Golden Notebook By Doris Lessing
Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo By Mary Douglas
How Institutions Think By Mary Douglas
The Powers of the Weak By Elizabeth Janeway
We Should All Be Feminists By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman By Robert K. Massie
Cleopatra: A Life By Stacy Schiff
Personal History By Katharine Graham
She By H. Rider Haggard
My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind By Scott Stossel
Pretty Is By Maggie Mitchell
In Praise of Folly By Desiderius Erasmus
Michael Kindness set the gold standard for book podcasts as the former host of the popular show "Books on the Nightstand" and is the "hand-seller to book-sellers" for Penguin Random House. Michael joined Roxanne in the studio to talk about being a sales rep for the publishing powerhouse and shares his recommendations to help YOU kick 2017 off right! Also in this episode, more from our interview with Just the Right Book's FIRST guest, Amy Bloom. Plus, rate & review us on Itunes to be entered to win the book of your choice from today's episode!
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Books in this episode:
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Gilded Cage by Vic James
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, his Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing by Damion Searls
Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich
Little Sweet Potato by Amy Bloom
Lucky Us by Amy Bloom
Deirdre Bair is a national book award winner and has given us Five award-winning biographies. RJ Julia recently held an event for the literary biographer who told Roxanne how she came to write the first complete biography of legendary gangster Al Capone. Also in this episode, we chat with guests of RJ Julia and ask them what they are reading. Plus, we find out what's on Roxanne's nightstand.
Books in this episode:
Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend by Deirdre Bair
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
House of Thieves by Charles Belfoure
All the Stars in the Heavens by Adriana Trigiani
Calling it Quits: Late Life Divorce and Starting Over by Deirdre Bair
The Sympathizer: A Novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
Books in this episode:
Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South by Beth Macy
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
News of the World by Paulette Jiles