Episode 37 - All Print, All the Time with Leah Rachel von Essen

On this episode, Leah Rachel von Essen, whose job is books, and I discuss our shared love of translated literature, especially genre fiction from other countries, and our shared love of reading and walking. She also talks about her very entertaining experiences with the library as a child and shares about her current work with Chicago Books to Women in Prison.    Follow Leah on Instagram! Find Leah’s posts about books in translation here  More information about how to support Chicago Books to Women in Prison   Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell  Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix    Books Highlighted by Leah: This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante, trans. Ann Goldstein The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen  Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah  The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin  The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, trans. Stephen Snyder Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi, trans. Jeffrey Zuckerman Palestine +100 ed. Basma Ghalayini They Will Drown in Their Mother’s Tears by Johannes Anyuru, trans. Saskia Vogel  The Waves by Virginia Woolf Who’s Afraid of Gender by Judith Butler  The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs    All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit  The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar  The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai  Freedom by Jonathan Franzen  To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf