Episode 23 - Genre Promiscuous with Nina Li Coomes
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On this episode, Nina Li Coomes, who was once described as genre promiscuous by a professor, discusses her traumatic early reading experiences, and how her identity as a writer has developed. We also discuss some shared favorites, how much she loves a hate-read, and why it can be good to read books you might not like.
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Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliot
Trust by Hernan Diaz
My Friends by Hisham Matar
Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías, trans. Heather Cleary
Books Highlighted by Nina:
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
A Play for the Living in the Time of Extinction by Miranda Rose Hall
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Grimm’s Fairytales by Grimm Jacob and Wilhelm
The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee
The Searcher by Tana French
In the Woods by Tana French
The Best Possible Experience: Stories by Nishanth Injam
The Aeneid by Virgil
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Homeland: Dungeons & Dragons: Book 1 by R. A. Salvatore
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
The Duke and I: Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
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