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38: Ivelisse Rodriguez, author of Love War Stories
Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
English - August 22, 2019 09:30 - 41 minutes - 57 MB - ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture authors books feminism feministbooks fiction literature nonfiction subscriptionbox Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
"We teach women that love is the thing to strive for and I think that's problematic." - Ivelisse Rodriguez
Ivelisse Rodriguez’s debut short story collection Love War Stories is a 2019 PEN/Faulkner finalist and a 2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES finalist. She is the founder and editor of an interview series focused on contemporary Puerto Rican writers published in Centro Voices. She earned an M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College and a Ph.D. in English-creative writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Connect with Ivelisse on her website, Instagram or Twitter.
Ivelisse's book recommendation: Skin by Racquel Goodison
Also mentioned in this episode: Feminist Book Club ep. 27: Kali Fajardo-Anstine, author of Sabrina & Corina
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