This week we're delighted to share this wonderful, nourishing conversation with novelist, playwright and short story writer Helen Oyeyemi! Helen's debut, The Icarus Girl was called \"a masterly first novel\" by the New York Times. White is For Witching won a Somerset Maugham Award, while What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours won the PEN Open Book Award. Her latest novel is the eagerly anticipated Peaces. We talked to her about rereading Little Women, Emily Dickinson's jokes, unreliable memoirists and bunking off school to read Ali Smith.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Daisy Buchanan - Careering
Helen Oyeyemi - Peaces
Ali Smith - Hotel World
E Nesbit - Five Children and It
Albert Camus - Plague
Herman Melville - Moby Dick
PG Wodehouse - Jeeves & Wooster
Zdeněk Jirotka - Saturnin
Mrs Beeton - Book of Household Management
EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady
Charles Reznikoff - Testimony
Félix Fénéon - Novel in Three Lines
Tessa Dare - When a Scot Ties the Knot
Kristi Coulter - Nothing Good Can Come From This
F Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby
JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
Emily Dickinson - Letters
Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
Margaret Atwood - Testaments
Margaret Atwood - Handmaid's Tale
Benjamin Moser - Susan Sontag
Sigrid Nunez - Sempre Susan
Sigrid Nunez - What Are You Going Through
Sigrid Nunez - The Friend
Susan Sontag - Against Interpretation
Diana Vreeland - DV
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