Listen "Jen Percy on GIRLS PLAY DEAD"
Episode Synopsis
Girls Play Dead by award-winning journalist Jen Percy is a powerful and poignant portrait of women and survival. Jen joins us to talk about understanding trauma, PTSD, gender expectations, wartime reportage, self-preservation, research and more with host Miwa Messer. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books (Episode): Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation by Jen Percy Demon Camp: The Strange and Terrible Saga of a Soldier's Return from War by Jen Percy Metamorphoses by Ovid The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brian Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee Bluets by Maggie Nelson
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