{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65c2b1a294c7b600173663c2/65d57b520ab5060016f2bfea?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"A Sodden Mushroom of a Man: Iva Dixit on Annie Proulx's The Shipping News","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/65c2b1a294c7b600173663c2/1708489584254-60a27cadb087b614a5c82bcf9066b6a4.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Jo’s spent the weekend on two books that have their seal of approval—<em>The Wren, the Wren</em> by Anne Enright and <em>The Wounded World: W.E.B. Du Bois and the First World War</em> by Chad L. Williams—while Charlotte (12:35) has been getting Edna O’Brien-pilled. The inimitable Iva Dixit (25:00) stops by to share the remarkable story of her spite-buy of Annie Proulx’s <em>The Shipping News</em>, a much-loved novel that has “rewired her brain.”</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Read Iva’s</strong><a href=\"https://www.vulture.com/author/rachel-handler/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> </strong></a><strong>work on </strong><a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/magazine/sean-paul.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sean Paul</strong></a><strong>, </strong><a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/magazine/oppenheimer-movie-girls.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Oppenheimer</strong></a><strong>, and </strong><a href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/my-life-with-retin-a\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Retin-A</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p><p><strong>Read the Andrea Dworkin essay mentioned in this episode </strong><a href=\"https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/andrea-dworkin-review/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p><p><strong>Send questions, requests, recommendations, and your own thoughts about any of the books discussed today to readingwriterspod at gmail dot com.&nbsp;</strong></p><p><strong>Charlotte is on Instagram and Twitter as @Charoshane. Her memoir, </strong><a href=\"https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/An-Honest-Woman/Charlotte-Shane/9781982126865\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>An Honest Woman</strong></a><strong> (August 13, 2024) can be </strong><a href=\"https://bookshop.org/p/books/an-honest-woman-a-memoir-of-love-and-sex-work-charlotte-shane/20712517\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>pre-ordered now</strong></a><strong>. She has a newsletter called </strong><a href=\"https://meantforyou.beehiiv.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Meant For You</strong></a><strong>, with additional writing at </strong><a href=\"https://open.acast.com/charoshane.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>charoshane.com</strong></a></p><p><strong>Jo co-edits</strong><a href=\"https://www.thestopgap.net/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> The Stopgap</strong></a><strong> and their writing lives at jolivingstone.com.</strong></p><p><strong>Learn more about our producer Alex at</strong><a href=\"https://www.alexsugiura.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> https://www.alexsugiura.com/</strong></a></p>","author_name":"Reading Writers"}