Disclaimer: You may want to plug in your earphones for this one–it’s a bit spicy. In our second episode, Emma and Monica attempt to defrost the long, cold nights of winter with a conversation about sex in fiction. After a spirited game of two truths and a lie, we discuss our bedside reads of the year, from Sally Rooney’s new take on steamy millennial malaise in Beautiful World, Where Are You to Tia Williams’s Seven Nights in June, by way of Bridget Jones, Anne Boleyn, Jane Eyre, Jilly Cooper, Emma’s mom Colleen Flood, and more (see notes below). We talk about how books that *go there* have enlightened and entertained us over the years, read out some passages we love, and argue in favour of reading across the brows.
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Monica Ainley DLV @monicaainleyDLV
Emma Knight @emmalknight
Hot tracks for cold nights playlist by D.J. Monicuddles
Books, authors, etc. in order of mention:
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Female Spanish thriller writer Carmen Mola revealed to be three men (Three not four!)
James Joyce’s Love Letters to His “Dirty Little F***bird” by Nadja Spiegelman in The Paris Review
Middlemarch by George Elliot (Emma’s fanfic as yet unwritten)
Breath by James Nestor
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Normal People by Sally Rooney (+ screen adaptation!)
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
Emma’s early education in “Chick Lit” (said with love): Sophie Kinsella, Jane Green, Marian Keyes, Meg Cabot
Judy Blume!! Where would the world be without her!?
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Hilary Mantel Trilogy: Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, The Mirror and the Light
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
Allan Gurganus
Authors of Fiction Confront a Problem: How to Write About Sex by Sarah Lyall for NYTimes
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë + 2011* film adaptation (*not 2016! Another fact check) directed by Cary Fukunaga
Bridgerton written by Chris Van Dusen and produced by Shonda Rhimes
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O’Neill
Emma’s mom, Colleen Flood, author of Bonding with Gravity
Thank you to our producers Joel Grove and Matt Bentley-Viney.
C’est tout! Thank you for rating + reviewing + recycling + subscribing.
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