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EPISODE · Dec 22, 2025 · 59 MIN

Episode 85 - Lock In and Understand with Madeline Blair

from Books with Betsy · host bookswithbetsy

On this episode, Madeline Blair, founder and editor of the literary magazine Sabr Tooth Tiger, talks about her development as a lover and writer of poetry, how balancing reading online publications can run up against her day job, and how she discovers new pieces to read. You also get to hear me have a bit of an existential crisis in real time which happens every time I think about how much content there is out there to read.    Sabr Tooth Tiger   Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy’s reading:  The Sisters by Jonas Hassan Khemiri  There is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone   Books Highlighted by Madeline: Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath  Ariel by Sylvia Plath  Wicked by Gregory Maguire Monsters, Clowns, and the Holy Fool by Satori Na The Poet’s Companion by Kim Addonizio  Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath   All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams by Sylvia Plath  Girls That Never Die by Safia Elhillo  The Diary of Anaïs Nin by Anaïs Nin  The Intentions of Thunder by Patricia Smith  Poems 1962-2012 by Louise Glück  Selected Poems of Frank O’Hara by Frank O’Hara  Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson  Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bzaterrica  Dubliners by James Joyce  The Idaho Four by James Patterson & Vicky Ward  The Wild Fox of Yemen by Threa Almontaser

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