What’s Old is New Episode 2.8 - Interview with Erin Blakemore, author of The Heroine’s Bookshelf
You can either download this episode, listen to it via the media player below, or subscribe on iTunes (this episode may not show up immediately, but if you click ‘subscribe’ it will download automatically).
Erin Blakemore is the author of The Heroine’s Bookshelf.
0:40 Welcome to Erin, and she explains The Heroine’s Bookshelf
2:40 The development of The Heroine’s Bookshelf - from Jane Eyre on!
4:50 The heroines
6:15 The emotional appeal of the authors (Jen sort of cops out), and our personal experiences with them
14:00 Is today’s awesome YA keeping kids from discovering some of the classics? Also, some digression.
22:30 E-readers freeing our reading habits
25:25 Women-specific reading rooms
27:00 What books do we not want people to ask us “what are you reading?”
34:20 What would Erin’s authors be doing if they lived today?
Plus the Their Eyes Were Watching God readalong
40:25 What does Erin consider to be a classic? Including the classics of girl p*rn
40:20 Ally Condie’s Matched illustrates our horror of the narrowness of some people’s canon
46:30 The negative power of “the classics”
53:30 Wrap up
