Hiatus Replay: Lucia Berlin — A Manual for Cleaning Women with Mimi Pond

26 Dec 2023 • 36 min • EN
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Back with new episodes on January 30. Lucia Berlin has been called one of America"s "best kept secrets.” We’ll be discussing Berlin’s engrossing short short story collection A Manual for Cleaning Women, published posthumously in 2015 and soon to be adapted for the screen by Pedro Almodovar. Joining us is a longtime friend of Berlin’s, the inimitable Mimi Pond, a cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Paris Review. Discussed in this episode:  A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin The Simpsons, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire”  A Manual for Cleaning Women adaptation (Pedro Almodovar) Over-Easy by Mimi Pond The Customer Is Always Wrong by Mimi Pond Mimi Pond on Instagram The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet the Spy with Leslie Brody Support the show For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Discuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

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