Episode #19: Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

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Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances, and Dorian as they discuss MEMORIES OF A CATHOLIC GIRLHOOD by Mary McCarthy and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss A MERCY by Toni Morrison. We would love to have you read along with us, and listen in on our conversation coming to you in December.

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Books mentioned:

• Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
• Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
• The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic
• The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
• Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy 1949-1975 by Mary McCarthy and Hannah Arendt
• The Group by Mary McCarthy
• The Company She Keeps by Mary McCarthy
• The Stones of Florence by Mary McCarthy
• Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion by Michelle Dean
• Lojman by Ebru Ojen, translated by Aron Aji and Selin Gökçesu
• The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Translated by Lara Vergnaud
• The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing
• Crook O’Lune by E.C.R. Lorac
• Tone by Sofia Samatar and Kate Zambreno
• The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut
• Bats in the Belfry by E.C.R. Lorac
• Gibbons, or One Bloody Thing After Another by James Morrison
• A Mercy by Toni Morrison

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