Babes in Bookland
by Alex Frnka - Bookclub Host
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Tarajia Morrel on Her Memoir "Desire Feeds the Feast"
Tarajia Morrel on Her Memoir "Desire Feeds the Feast"
About this podcast
Babes in Bookland is the book club podcast for women who love women's stories. We read the memoirs, dissect the narratives, and celebrate the writers brave enough to put it all on the page. Great books, honest conversation, and a whole lot of love for women's voices in literature. Think of us as your most well-read friend who always knows exactly which book you need next. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 103 episodes
- Tarajia Morrel on Her Memoir "Desire Feeds the Feast" · 38 min · Season 3 Episode 48What are you really hungry for? This week we sit down with food writer Tarajia Morrell, author of Desire Feeds the Feast. Raised in a one-bedroom Manhattan apartment by a…
- Friday Fiction: Karen Winn's "The Society" & Michelle Maryk's "The Found Object Society" · 46 min · Season 3 Episode 47What really happens behind the closed doors of a secret society, and what would you risk to find out? This Friday Fiction, we sit down with Michelle Maryk, author of The Found…
- Barbara Latinka on Her Memoir "Spells for Surviving a Haunted Childhood" · 57 min · Season 3 Episode 46What if the magic you were waiting for was inside you all along? This week we sit down with Barbara Latinka, author of the three-part memoir Spells for Surviving a Haunted…
- BONUS TEASER: Good for Her, Not for Me // Amy Poehler’s Memoir "Yes Please" · 14 min · Season 3Does a celebrity memoir owe us its vulnerability, or can it simply be a pleasant afternoon with a funny friend? In this bonus episode, we finally tackle Amy Poehler’s Yes…
- Jowita Bydlowska on Her Memoir "Unshaming" · 54 min · Season 3 Episode 45What if every relapse was also a moment of hope? In this episode, we sit down with Jowita Bydlowska, author of the groundbreaking memoir Drunk Mom and her new hybrid memoir…
- How to Save Yourself // Sarah Polley's "Run Towards the Danger" · 1 h 11 min · Season 3 Episode 44What happens when the moments you've spent years avoiding are the very ones you need to face? This week, my friend Nadia returns to discuss Run Towards the Danger…
- Captain Nia Gilliam on Her Memoir "Cleared for Takeoff" · 56 min · Season 3 Episode 43What does it take to climb back into the cockpit after one of the most traumatic days in our nation's history? This week we sit down with airline captain Nia Gilliam, author of…
- Friday Fiction: Jessica Knoll's "Helpless" · 57 min · Season 3 Episode 42What happens if we pay attention to our darkest fantasies? This week Ashley and I sit down with Jessica Knoll, author of Luckiest Girl Alive and Bright Young Women, to talk…
- BONUS TEASER: Redemption or Just Lip Service? // Lisa Rinna's "You Better Believe We're Going to Talk About it" · 14 min · Season 3Is reality TV ever really real, and what do the women who star in it owe us? This week, Brett joins me for a bonus episode on Lisa Rinna's memoir, You Better Believe I'm Gonna…
- The Cost of Girl Power // Melanie Chisholm's "The Sporty One" · 1 h 26 min · Season 3 Episode 41What did the Spice Girls teach you about being a girl, and what did it cost the women who taught it? This week, Page joins me to talk about Melanie Chisholm's memoir The Sporty…
- HERstory // Kamala Harris' "107 Days" · 52 min · Season 3 Episode 40Who was the first female politician you ever became aware of? My friend Ashley encouraged me to pick up Kamala Harris' 107 Days-- despite knowing how it all ended, because it's…
- Maeve Dunigan on Her Memoir "Read This to Look Cool" · 47 min · Season 3 Episode 39Do you ever look back at everything you did to seem cool growing up and just have to laugh? This week I sit down with Maeve Dunigan, author of Read This to Look Cool, a memoir…
- Nadia Bowers on Her Memoir "Dear Dealer" · 52 min · Season 3 Episode 38What do you do when the person who destroyed your family is also, undeniably, a human being? That's the question at the center of Nadia Bowers's Dear Dealer, and it's the…
- Ariel Lawhon on "The Pirate Queen" · 1 h 20 min · Season 3 Episode 37What does it take to reclaim a woman's story when history itself was written by people who had every reason to erase her? That's the question at the center of our conversation…
- Emilee Hackney on Her Memoir "All That's Unseen" · 1 h 1 min · Season 3 Episode 36What does it cost to love a place and a faith that shaped you, even after they've hurt you? This week I sit down with Emilee Hackney, author of the New York Times bestselling…
- Friday Fiction: Rachel Hochhauser's "Lady Tremaine" · 50 min · Season 3 Episode 35What if the woman we've been taught to hate for six centuries was just doing what it took to survive in a world that gave her almost no options? That's the question Rachel…
- Mallary Tenore Tarpley on Her Memoir "SLIP" · 60 min · Season 3 Episode 34What if recovery was never meant to be a finish line? Mallary Tenore Tarpley spent over twenty years writing and rewriting the story that became Slip: Life in the Middle of…
- TEASER: UnReliable? // Jodie Sweetin's Memoir "UnSweetined" · 11 min · Season 3Is a sobriety memoir still honest if the author was relapsing while she wrote it? That's the question Suz and I couldn't shake after reading and listening to Jodi Sweetin's…
- BSB: Isabel Klee's Memoir "Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I've Cried About" · 17 min · Season 3 Episode 33What happens when a book gives you everything you want on the surface and still leaves you wanting more underneath? I'm back with a mini review of Dogs, Boys, and Other Things…
- Ariel Fitz-Patrick on Her Memoir "Imma See for Myself" · 55 min · Season 3 Episode 32What happens when you finally stop believing something just because you were told to, and start asking if it's actually true? TikTok creator, singer, and now memoirist Ariel…
