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
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
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
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