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  • Uncategorizable Interactions: Brittany Newell on Samuel R. Delany’s Times Square Red, Times Square Blue

    January 28, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

    Charlotte and Jo revisit Rebecca Novack’s Murder Bimbo before taking a quick tour of the Russian Civil War and comrade crushes through Nikolai Ostrovsky’s How The Steel Was Tempered. They’re then joined by the scintillating Brittany…

  • Bookforum Live: Stephanie Wambugu on Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection

    January 21, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

    At last, the audio from December's Bookforum x Reading Writers live holiday event! The justly celebrated novelist Stephanie Wambugu joins Charlotte and Jo to talk about the controversial and inescapable Perfection by Vincenzo…

  • Moral Discord: Noah Kulwin on Ross Macdonald’s Black Money

    January 14, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

    The hosts discuss Stephanie Wambugu’s justly-hyped novel Lonely Crowds before they’re joined by Noah Kulwin, an avowed Macdonaldhead who details the pleasures of private eye fiction through 1966’s Black Money.  Noah Kulwin is a writer…

  • Each Brick in This Wall: Hanif Abdurraqib on Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place

    January 7, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

    Charlotte and Jo spring into the new year with a conversation about ancient poetry: Beowulf, The Iliad, and Dante’s Inferno as translated by Mark Musa, Mary Jo Bang, and Danny Lavery. They’re then joined by the wise and wonderful Hanif…

  • A Year in Reading

    December 31, 2025 · 38 min

    In this host-only bonus episode, Charlotte and Jo discuss some of their most memorable reads of 2025. Authors discussed include Arthur C. Clarke, Shon Faye, Sarah Schulman, Ai Yazawa, Marjane Satrapi, Ariana Reines, Kyung-Ran Jo, and…

  • Stinking and Miserable: Clio Chang on Cheryl Strayed's Wild

    December 17, 2025 · 59 min

    In a scandalous rejection of holiday spirit, Jo and Charlotte reflect on the dark, elegant pleasures of Gabrielle Wittkopf’s The Necrophiliac alongside contemporary novel conventions as deployed in Rebecca Novack’s Murder Bimbo. The hosts…

  • A Certain Mistake: Jackie Ess on Tolstoy’s Resurrection

    December 3, 2025 · 49 min

    Charlotte delves into Ecclesiastes through the work of liberation theologist Elsa Támez (When the Horizons Close) before Jo shares some of Pierre Guyotat’s horny, rapturous literary memoir, Idiocy. Icon of many RW conversations past, the…

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Writers Charlotte Shane and Jo Livingstone talk about what they’ve been reading and special guests join to enthuse about a significant or provocative book of their choice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.