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To celebrate this year's re-issue of Toni Morrison's oeuvre, we kicked off the year with a book club of her brilliant debut novel, The Bluest Eye. Welcome to The Bluest Eye book club, in collaboration with our dear friend Kelly Chervin of Lit Club NYC.For the first part of this series, we spoke with MacArthur Genius Jacqueline Woodson, who penned the introduction for the new edition of The Bluest Eye. Episode Links:Follow us on InstagramJoin our PatreonFollow Jacqueline WoodsonFollow Kelly/Lit Club Every single book mentioned in this episode Hell-Heaven by Jhumpa Lahiri Shirley Temple x Bill Robinson dance
We're still saying Happy New Year, right?? Episode Links:- Follow us on Instagram- Join our Patreon- Every single book mentioned in this episode- Tickets to our Bluest Eye live book club- Leah on the Manosphere - In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried by Amy Hempel- Pet Milk by Stuart Dybek- The Dead by James Joyce- A Battle With My Blood by Tatiana Schlossberg- Late Empire Life Extension by Ayesha A. Siddiqi
Episode Links:Follow us on InstagramJoin our PatreonBrowse our Bookshop.org storefrontSign up for the Anna Karenina book clubJoin the Anna Karenina DiscordFollow Jennifer Wilson Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Pevear & Volokhonsky translation)Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Constance Garnett translation)Bad Witches by H.B. AkumiahNo God But Us by Bobuq SayedPleasantries by Erin SomersThe Ten-Year Affair by Erin SomersAfter the Ball/After the Dance by Leo TolstoyThe Cacophonous Miracle of “The Brothers Karamazov” by Jennifer Wilson The Brothers Karamazov Crime and Punishment (Oliver Ready translation) The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Follow us on InstagramJoin our PatreonSign up for the Anna Karenina book clubJoin the Anna Karenina DiscordLeah in Cleveland Review of BooksBad Witches by H.B. AkumiahLeah in the NationHobart dispatch on the Weird Fucks reading I Regret Almost Everything by Keith McNallyThe Lover by Marguerite DurasThe Age of Innocence by Edith WhartonOur Bookshop dot org storefront
Follow us on InstagramJoin our PatreonSign up for the Anna Karenina book clubJoin the Anna Karenina DiscordBad Witches by H.B. AkumiahLeah’s Vogue piece on Prince F Slur Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyGood Story by Eliza McLamb (out Thursday!)
Follow us on InstagramJoin our PatreonSign up for the Anna Karenina book clubJoin the Anna Karenina DiscordAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyBad Witches by H.B. AkumiahHerculine by Grace ByronFollow Grace The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover dir by Peter GreenawayThis is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz paperback/ This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz hardcoverWriters & Lovers by Lily King The Wilderness by Angela Fluornoy Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones / Lost in the City by Edward P. JonesThe Phantom Thread dir by Paul Thomas Anderson Ooh, Kill Em - I can’t even find the original video bc it’s so old lolJane Eyre by Charlotte BronteLolita by Vladimir Nabokov Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThe Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy / The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo TolstoyIntercourse by Andrew DworkinRing by Selena GomezBoy Room Horseshoe Crab Diary by Grace Byron
Episode Links:Follow us on InstagramJoin our PatreonSign up for the Anna Karenina book clubJoin the Anna Karenina DiscordAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyBad Witches by H.B. AkumiahHamnet by Maggie O’Farrell Hamnet dir by Chloe ZhaoDrown by Junot Diaz Lonely Crowds by Stephanie WambuguThis is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones Sorry, Baby dir by Eva VictorDr. Orna Guardian article Sabbath’s Theater by Phillip Roth, read by John Turturo The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
Episode Links:- Follow us on Instagram- Join our Patreon- Sign up for the Anna Karenina book club- Join the Anna Karenina Discord- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy- Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
Episode Links: - Follow us on Instagram- Join our Patreon- Sign up for the Anna Karenina book club- Join the Anna Karenina Discord- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy- Leah in The Baffler - Bad Witches by H.B. Akumiah- Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico - Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte- Muscle Man by Jordan Castro - The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy - Inside the ‘Anti-Woke’ Literary Scene Growing in L.A. in Rolling Stone
Episode Links: - Follow us on Instagram - Join our Patreon- Sign up for the Anna Karenina book club- Join the Anna Karenina Discord- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy - Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky - Vladimir Nabokov’s lecture on Anna Karenin (1877)
Episode Links: Follow us on InstagramSubscribe to our PatreonBuy Heather’s bookFollow Andrew on InstagramBuy Andrew’s book, Something Rotten Lonely Crowds by Stephanie WambuguMy Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyGreat Black Hope by Rob FranklinThe Stalker by Paula BomerJordan ShowOpen Book Club Substack on AI Romance The Vegan by Andrew Lipstein Last Resort by Andrew LipsteinThe Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St AubynThe Ideological Brain by Leor ZmigrodDisneyWar by James B Stewart Blood Sport: The Truth Behind the Scandals in the Clinton White House by James B Stewart Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
Episode Links: Follow us on InstagramSubscribe to our PatreonBuy Heather’s bookFollow Rob on Instagram Buy Rob's bookThe Ghostwriter by Phillip RothWhere Should We Begin? with Esther PerelAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Olive, Again by Elizabeth StroutSet Pace directed by Daisy IfamaBlackouts by Justin Torres Crush by Richard Siken Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar The Emails of Natalie Portman and Jonathan Safran FoerStreets have said for some time that JSF left Nicole Krauss for Natalie Portman… Reply All Episode about The EmailsSoft Core by Brittany Newell Oola by Brittany NewellPonyboy Elliot Duncan JSF and Natalie Portman emailsInformation Age by Cora LewisLuster by Raven LeilaniA Separation by Katie KitamuraSlouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan DidionAlicia Mtn’s Instagram Ashley D Escobar’s InstagramBlessings and Disasters by Alexis OkeowoEmperor of Gladness by Ocean VuongOn Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Conner Castle Gripsholm by Kurt Tucholsky Three Summers by Margarita LiberakiDrinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ PackerToday Explained - All the Sad Young Literary MenLeah’s interview of Tony T in Interview Mag Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte Ahegao by Tony Tulathimutte Ama Kwarteng Reviews The Guest in LARBThe Guest by Emma ClineBeloved by Toni Morrison Goodbye, Columbus by Phillip Roth Ama’s book club with McNally Jackson How I Won a Nobel Prize by Julius Taranto Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott White Out by Michael W. Clune Rent Boy by Gary Indiana Office Politics by Wilfred SheedLord Jim at Home by Dinah BrookeLightning Rods by Helen DeWittPlayworld by Adam RossAbsalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
Episode links: LIMOUSINE PATREON Leah in Vogue Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College in NYMagWhy I Broke Up With New York in The New YorkerIt Must Be Nice to Be a West Village Girl in The CutThe Romance of Being Unreadable in VultureConsider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace Eliza McLamb on IGEliza’s musicEliza’s Substack Binchtopia podcast The Double Standard of Aging by Susan SontagReply All Critics at LargeSentimental GarbageContinental GarbageThe Rachel Incident by Caroline O’DonoghueThe Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith City Arts and LecturesJazz by Toni Morrison War & Peace by Leo TolstoyBad Witches by H.B. Akumiah
Leah profile of Emil Weinstein Make Sure You Die Screaming by Zee CarlstromOn Beauty by Zadie SmithWhite Teeth by Zadie SmithAnna Karenina by Tolstoy Critics at Large on The Pitt Today Explained on Water Cooler TVJeremy GordonSee Friendship by Jeremy Gordon Leah’s interviews Jeremy in Interview MagFlyana Boss on TikTok The Burning Plain by Juan RulfoLorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live by Susan Morrison Annihilation by Michel Houellebecq Submission by Michel Houellebecq
My Struggle by Karl Ove KnausgårdEmpire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Redden KeefeSay Nothing by Patrick Madden KeefeThe Collected Stories of Amy Hempel The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek Rayne Fisher Quann Interview with Tavi Gevinson The Vanishing White Male Writer by Jacob SavageAkosua’s SubstackThe Rachel Papers by Martin AmisDemocracy by Joan Didion Dracula by Bram StokerSouls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois Harmony Holiday’s SubstackThe Black Catatonic Scream by Harmony HolidayBoy Movies by Allison Picurro SubstackHung Up by Hunter Harris Substack The Milk Pan by Akosua AdasiA Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie MooreI Am Homeless if This is Not My Home by Lorrie MoorePassing by Nella Larsen
Episode Links: Limo RSVPNotes by Dirt Mag and Night GalleryTrauma Plot by Jamie HoodHow to Be a Good Girl: A Miscellany by Jamie HoodRegards, Marcel The Case Against the Trauma Plot by Parul SehgalJamie on Dear Dickhead in BookforumHow to Sell Out: The (Hidden) Cost of Being a Black Writer by Chad SandersMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Hours by Michael CunninghamFucking Like a Housewife by Jamie Hood in The New InquiryFlâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London by Lauren Elkin No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce by Haley Mlotek Bluets by Maggie NelsonAggregated Discontent: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman by Harron Walker Wave of Blood by Ariana ReinesThe White Book by Hand Kang
Episode Links: Buy Bad Witches by Heather :)Gossip Girl Fanfic Novella by Charlie Markbreiter [AMAZON LINK TRIGGER WARNING]Charlie’s SubstackPagebreakWhat You Make of Me by Sophie Madeline Dess Zoe Saldana Bites Back!!My personal fav pic of Zoe as Nina, but there are many! El Mal from Emilia PerezEl Mal Wins Best Original SongThe End of History and the Last Man Francis Fukuyama Sentimental Education by Hannah McGregorCharli XCX Grammy’s 2025 Red CarpetCharli XCX Brits 2025 Red Carpet Ariana Grande Oscar’s 2025 Red Carpet I Saw the TV Glow The People’s JokerStress PositionsNympho WarsWriters Against the War on GazaMen in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafi Basel Al-Araj Last Will and Testament Charlie’s David Lynch essayLaura Palmer by BastilleAngelo Badalamenti explaining how he wrote Laura Palmer's themeThe Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino
Bad Witches by Heather :) Lonely Crowds by Stephanie Wambugu The Jordan Show Do You Want to Be Famous? in Interview Mag AJ Radico Angel Food Magazine Henry James’ Ghost Stories by Virginia Woolf (page 64) The Egg and the Chicken by Clarice Lispector Where Are You Going, Where Have Your Been? By Joyce Carol Oates The Guest by Emma Cline Something Rotten by Andrew Lipstein My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino How I Quit Having A Grudge Against Lena Dunham by Emily Gould in The Cut Friendship by Emily Gould Emily Gould Elle Profile (not NYT), Emily Gould NYT Profile ft. LD mention , Emily Gould on LD Again Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti Jean-Michel Basqiuat, Flyboy in the Buttermilk by Greg Tate Our Funeral by Stephanie Wambugu in The Dirt Washington Square by Henry James Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe




