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

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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.

Follow Leah on Instagram!

Find Leah’s posts about books in translation here

More information about how to support Chicago Books to Women in Prison

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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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.

Follow Leah on Instagram!

Find Leah’s posts about books in translation here

More information about how to support Chicago Books to Women in Prison

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

  continue reading

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