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This week we chat with two long-time friends and book lovers, Lisa Endo Cooper and Bremond Berry MacDougall, who decided to create a small press together to help bring some forgotten books back into print that were written by American women writers. Their company, Quite Literally Books, is modeled after heritage presses in the UK like Persephone Books, Manderley Press, and Slightly Foxed Editions. In addition to bringing back worthy novels, these presses produce books on high quality papers and have beautiful covers. Lisa and Bremond couldn’t find an equivalent in the US and were determined to bring this type of press across the pond.
For our book recommendation section, we’re highlighting books that feature neurodivergent characters. We have middle grade, a popular murder mystery, crime fiction, contemporary fiction, historical fiction, and young adult.
Books Mentioned In This Episode:
1- The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
2- Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim
3- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
4- Plum Bun by Jese Redmon Fauset
5- Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
6- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
7- Who Would Have Thought It? by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton
8- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
9- Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
10- Why Read Moby Dick? by Nathaniel Philbrick
11- In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
12- The Pink House by Nelia Gardner White
13- The Little Dinner by Christina Terhune Herrick
14- Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray
15- The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
16- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
17- How to End a Story: Diaries: 1995-1998 by Helen Garner
18- The Children's Bach by Helen Garner
19- Middlemarch by George Eliot
20- Freyja by Margrét Ann Thors
21- Elizabeth & Marilyn by Julie Owen Moylan
22- A Five Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
23- Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
24- The Maid by Nita Prose
25- Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
26- June in the Garden by Eleanor Wilde
27- Rubberneckers by Belinda Bauer
28- The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer
29- When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds
Media Mentioned in this Episode:
1- Dolly Parton/ Kim Michele Richardson - https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article317220255.html
2- Dark Matter (Apple +, 2024 - present)
3- What Does Neurodivergence Mean - https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/23154-neurodivergent
