Episode 432: Jess Zimmerman

Jess Zimmerman is editor-in-chief of Electric Literature. Her new book is Women and Other Monsters.“My goals are to be exactly as vulnerable as I feel is necessary. And not that’s necessary to me—that's necessary to the observer, to the reader. If [my story] is out there, it's out there because in order to make the larger point that I wanted to make … I had to give this level of access. It does kind of feel more strategic than cathartic.”

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Show notes:
@j_zimms
jesszimmerman.com
Zimmerman's Electric Literature archive
01:00 Women and Other Monsters (Beacon Press • 2021)
03:00 "Hunger Makes Me" (Hazlitt • Jul 2016)
04:00 Charybdis (theoi.com)
05:00 Mary Roach's website
08:00 The Furies (theoi.com)
11:00 Lindy West's website
12:00 "We Can’t Believe Survivors’ Stories If We Never Hear Them" (Rachel Zarrow • Electric Literature • Mar 2021)
16:00 "Why Are Portholes Being Used on Cows?" (BBC News • Jun 2019)
22:00 Longform Podcast #193: Robin Marantz Henig
24:00 "The Biggest Moments in xoJane History" (Eve Peyser • Jezebel • Jan 2017)
31:00 I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder (Sarah Kurchak • Douglas & McIntyre • 2020)
31:00 Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex (Angela Chen • Beacon Press • 2020)
32:00 "’Where’s My Cut?’: Un Unpaid Emotional Labor" (The Toast • Jul 2015)
33:00 "’Where’s My Cut?’: Un Unpaid Emotional Labor" MetaFilter thread
37:00 Catapult
37:00 Hazlitt
37:00 Electric Literature
38:00 "What We Learned From Meghan and Harry’s Interview" (Sarah Lyall and Tariro Mzezewa • New York Times • Mar 2021)
39:00 "Please Just Let Women Be Villiains" (Elyse Martin • Electric Literature • Feb 2021)
39:00 Circe (Madeline Miller • Little, Brown and Company • 2018)
41:00 "How to Arrange a Poetry Collection Using Mix Tape Rules" (Rachelle Toarmino • Electric Literature • Mar 2021)
41:00 "What If We Cultivated Our Ugliness? or: The Monstrous Beauty of Medusa" (Catapult • May 2017)
43:00 Zimmerman's newsletter Dead Channel
43:00 "A Midlife Crisis, By Any Other Name" (Hazlitt • Jul 2015)
46:00 Lamia (theoi.com)
55:00 "I Always Thought of Myself as a Person Who Pays Attention" (Sarah Miller • Medium • Mar 2021)

 
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Jess Zimmerman is editor-in-chief of Electric Literature. Her new book is Women and Other Monsters.“My goals are to be exactly as vulnerable as I feel is necessary. And not that’s necessary to me—that's necessary to the observer, to the reader. If [my story] is out there, it's out there because in order to make the larger point that I wanted to make … I had to give this level of access. It does kind of feel more strategic than cathartic.”

Thanks to Mailchimp for sponsoring this week's episode.

Show notes:
@j_zimms
jesszimmerman.com
Zimmerman's Electric Literature archive
01:00 Women and Other Monsters (Beacon Press • 2021)
03:00 "Hunger Makes Me" (Hazlitt • Jul 2016)
04:00 Charybdis (theoi.com)
05:00 Mary Roach's website
08:00 The Furies (theoi.com)
11:00 Lindy West's website
12:00 "We Can’t Believe Survivors’ Stories If We Never Hear Them" (Rachel Zarrow • Electric Literature • Mar 2021)
16:00 "Why Are Portholes Being Used on Cows?" (BBC News • Jun 2019)
22:00 Longform Podcast #193: Robin Marantz Henig
24:00 "The Biggest Moments in xoJane History" (Eve Peyser • Jezebel • Jan 2017)
31:00 I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder (Sarah Kurchak • Douglas & McIntyre • 2020)
31:00 Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex (Angela Chen • Beacon Press • 2020)
32:00 "’Where’s My Cut?’: Un Unpaid Emotional Labor" (The Toast • Jul 2015)
33:00 "’Where’s My Cut?’: Un Unpaid Emotional Labor" MetaFilter thread
37:00 Catapult
37:00 Hazlitt
37:00 Electric Literature
38:00 "What We Learned From Meghan and Harry’s Interview" (Sarah Lyall and Tariro Mzezewa • New York Times • Mar 2021)
39:00 "Please Just Let Women Be Villiains" (Elyse Martin • Electric Literature • Feb 2021)
39:00 Circe (Madeline Miller • Little, Brown and Company • 2018)
41:00 "How to Arrange a Poetry Collection Using Mix Tape Rules" (Rachelle Toarmino • Electric Literature • Mar 2021)
41:00 "What If We Cultivated Our Ugliness? or: The Monstrous Beauty of Medusa" (Catapult • May 2017)
43:00 Zimmerman's newsletter Dead Channel
43:00 "A Midlife Crisis, By Any Other Name" (Hazlitt • Jul 2015)
46:00 Lamia (theoi.com)
55:00 "I Always Thought of Myself as a Person Who Pays Attention" (Sarah Miller • Medium • Mar 2021)

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