We are beyond excited to bring you this week’s very, very special guest. An individual whose work we adore and consume with gusto; the novelist, essayist and New York Times Bestselling author Curtis Sittenfeld! Curtis is the author of six novels and a short story collection including including YB faves Prep, Eligible and American Wife. Her latest is the highly anticipated fictional look at Hilary Clinton: Rodham. We talked to her about First Ladies, short stories, writing like there’s nobody watching and trying to make your kids like LauraIngalls Wilder.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan – The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan – Insatiable

Curtis Sittenfeld – Rodham

Curtis Sittenfeld – The Nominee

Hilary Clinton – Living History

Curtis Sittenfeld – American Wife

Emily Gould – Perfect Tunes

Emily Gould – And the Heart Says Whatever

Lily King – Writers & Lovers

Lily King – Euphoria

Susan Choi – Trust Exercise

LauraIngalls Wilder – Little House on the Prairie

Carol Ryrie Brink – Caddie Woodlawn

Gertrude Chandler Warner – Boxcar Children

EL Konigsburg- From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frank Weiler

Becky Albertalli- Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Curtis Sittenfeld – You Think It I’ll Say It

Elizabeth Strout – Olive Kitteridge

Alice Munro – Selected Stories

Tessa Hadley – The Past

Susanna Daniel – Stiltsville

Susanna Daniel – Sea Creatures

Marisa Meltzer – This is Big

Sue Miller – Monogamy

Sally Rooney – Normal People

Sally Rooney – Conversations With Friends

Curtis Sittenfeld – Eligible

Jane Austen – Pride and…

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