Listen "Life-Changing Books: Wendy Hustwit"
Episode Synopsis
We're talking to fundraising and development maven Wendy Hustwit about the books that changed your life, where to find recommendations, and reading versus application. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Poster for the 1918 film Tengerparti álom [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Arts & Letters Daily Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale Jean M. Auel The Clan of the Cave Bear Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex Simone Biles Judy Blume Forever Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights Heather Cox Richardson Letters from an American Michael Crichton Robert Day The Great American Beauty Contest Brian De Palma Carrie Nawal El Saadawi The Nawal El Saadawi Reader George Eliot Middlemarch Natalie Goldberg Three Simple Lines Natalie Goldberg Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within Nikole Hannah-Jones The 1619 Project Liam Heneghan Through Pleated Light: Confessions and Translations Zbigniew Herbert The King of the Ants: Mythological Essays Homer The Odyssey Søren Kierkegaard Daily Readings with Søren Kierkegaard Stephen King Carrie London Review of Books Judith McNaught Whitney, My Love Henry Miller Black Spring Madeline Miller Circe Madeline Miller The Song of Achilles José Esteban Muñoz Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics New York Review of Books Scott O'Dell Island of the Blue Dolphins Oprah's Book Club Nina Paley Sita Sings the Blues Robert D. Putnam Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community Reese's Book Club Taylor Jenkins Reid Carrie Soto Is Back Taylor Jenkins Reid The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Scott Rosenfield "Eschaton: The World's Most Complicated Game?" (Article on the tennis game invented by David Foster Wallace) Hiroaki Sato On Haiku Deborah Shapiro Silent Book Club Miriam Toews A Complicated Kindness Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy War and PeaceValmiki The Ramayana Sandy Welch Jane Eyre (BBC/PBS series) Edith Wharton Marion Zimmer Bradley The Mists of Avalon
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