This week we dive into Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar, a quasi-autobiographical novel about womanhood, depression, and identity. We also discuss the unfortunate circumstances of Plath's early death, country mice moving to big cities, and metaphorical chemistry equipment.
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Jul 6
Ep 758 - Forrest Gump, by Winston Groom
Life is like a box of podcasts, you sort of know what you're gonna get (e.g. host-read ads, friends talking books, hot takes about books that inspired movies). Winston Groom's picaresque romp Forrest Gump inspired a juggernaut of a movie in the mid-90s - but it's really a rather ... Show More
1h 12m
Jun 2019
Elizabeth Gilbert on Travel After "Eat, Pray, Love"
For this week's episode, we sat down with the best-selling author to talk about how travel has changed for her since that infamous Eat, Pray, Love adventure, and the role it now continues to play during her grieving process after the loss of her partner, Rayya. Plus, she also exp ... Show More
39m 39s
May 2022
Margaret Atwood - Experiments in Living
Ian McMillan welcomes the Canadian poet and novelist Margaret Atwood, who joins The Verb from wild woods north of Toronto, to share poems from her new collection ‘Dearly’ and to explore the preoccupations that link her poetry and fiction: what it means to have a body, our increas ... Show More
44m 19s
Mar 2022
Book Club: Of Women and Salt
Gabriela Garcia's Of Women and Salt is a beautiful, heartbreaking and haunting novel tracing the struggles and traumas of generations of women, and how they are connected. Anney and Samantha discuss political and intergenerational trauma, motherhood, immigration, addiction and se ... Show More
1h 1m
Jul 2016
Ep. 4 | Motherhood, Mythology, and Marjane
This week, the Reading discuss Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward and Persepolis by Majane Satrapi.
Books Mentioned in this Podcast
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn WardPersepolis by Marjane SatropiSex Object by Jessica ValentiSex and Girls by Peggy OrgensteinAll the Single Ladies by ... Show More
39m 14s