This week on the Brit Lit Podcast, I speak to Rosie Wilby, author of Is Monogamy Dead?: Rethinking Relationships in the 21st Century. Among other things, we discuss literary friendships, the painfulness of breakups, and her favourite music memoirs.
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Books mentioned in this episode:
Is Monogamy Dead? by Rosie Wilby
Bridget Jones’s Diary, by Helen Fielding
Tales Of The City, by Armistead Maupin
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, by Carrie Brownstein
Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star, by Tracey Thorn
She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Popular Music, by Lucy O’Brien
Trans: A Memoir, by Juliet Jacques
How To Be a Woman, by Caitlin Moran
Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own, by Kate Bolick
Modern Romance, by Aziz Ansari
Out of Time, by Miranda Sawyer
Lilac Girls, by Martha Hall Kelly
Still Alice, by Lisa Genova
The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Wals
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, by Jesse Andrews
The Diplomat’s Daughter, by Karin Tanabe
An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green
Astonish Me, by Maggie Shipstead
A Kind of Freedom, by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
A Dirty Job, by Christopher Moore
A Man Called Ove, by Frederik Backman
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, by Mark Haddon
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, by Joanna Cannon
Love in Small Letters/Love in Lowercase, by Francesc Miralles
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman
The Terrible Privacy Of Maxwell Sim, by Jonathan Coe
Man at the Helm, by Nina Stibbe
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