A Playwright With an Italy Obsession

Blind Date With a Book

On this week's show, the start of season two, we're setting up Pia Wilson, a playwright and writer of the new fiction podcast, If I Go Missing, the Witches Did It. She is the recipient of dozens of awards and fellowships, including being a 2015 Sundance Fellow, receiving a 2020 Newark Creative Catalyst grant, and being playwright in residence at Marshall and Middlebury Colleges. She recently loved Circe and Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?, but is put off by books that are too violent toward women. She’s a self-proclaimed romantic, who is studying Italian and is a snob about coffee, bourbon, and hotel rooms. She loves when people can tell long funny stories and effortlessly host, like Ina Garten.

The guest: Pia Wilson

The picks:

From Scratch by Tembi Locke

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec

My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo

Where to find us:

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