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Booker Prize Nominee Charlotte Wood and The Natural Way of Things
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On episode 161 this week I'm visited by Booker Prize shortlist nominee, Charlotte Wood. We talk about internalized misogyny, systems of oppression, what it’s like to be a Booker Award finalist and Wood's reissue of her 2015 novel, The Natural Way of Things.
Books Recommended:
So Long, See You Tomorrow, William Maxwell
The Old Fire by Elisa Shua Disapin translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins
Delirious by Damian Wilkins
How to Commit A Postcolonial Murder by Nina McConigley
Attention: Writing on Life, Art and the World by Anne Einreight out April 8th
Guest Author:
Lies We Tell About the Stars by Susie Nadler
Find Charlotte on Social Media:
Charlottewoodwriter on Instagram
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I hope you all have a wonderfully bookish week!