Episode 37 - All Print, All the Time with Leah Rachel von Essen

On this episode, Leah Rachel von Essen, whose job is books, and I discuss our shared love of translated literature, especially genre fiction from other countries, and our shared love of reading and walking. She also talks about her very entertaining experiences with the library as a child and shares about her current work with Chicago Books to Women in Prison. 

 

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Books mentioned in this episode: 

 

What Betsy’s reading: 

Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell 

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix 

 

Books Highlighted by Leah:

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante, trans. Ann Goldstein

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen 

Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 

The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin 

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, trans. Stephen Snyder

Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi, trans. Jeffrey Zuckerman

Palestine +100 ed. Basma Ghalayini

They Will Drown in Their Mother’s Tears by Johannes Anyuru, trans. Saskia Vogel 

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

Who’s Afraid of Gender by Judith Butler 

The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs 

 

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Other books mentioned in this episode:

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit 

The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar 

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai 

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen 

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf