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In the Season 3 finale, Jo sells Charlotte on Alan Warner’s “amazingly textured” Movern Callar , which leads the hosts to reflect on some of the season’s recurring themes. They’re then joined by the radically reflective...
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Writers Charlotte Shane and Jo Livingstone talk about what they’ve been reading and special guests join to enthuse about a significant or provocative book of their choice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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What is Reading Writers about?
Writers Charlotte Shane and Jo Livingstone talk about what they’ve been reading and special guests join to enthuse about a significant or provocative book of their choice.
What has Reading Writers covered recently?
Recent episodes include "A Businessless Person: William C. Anderson on Thich Nhat Hanh’s Zen Battles" (11 March 2026, 65 minutes), "Pain and Debasement: Rayne Fisher-Quann on Iris Owens' After Claude" (4 March 2026, 51 minutes), and "Tree-Based Horror: Nicholas Russell on Algernon Blackwood’s The Wendigo and Other Stories" (25 February 2026, 60 minutes).
How often does Reading Writers publish?
Reading Writers publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 60 minutes across 38 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Reading Writers?
Booking probability for Reading Writers is 26%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Reading Writers requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Reading Writers's contact route on record: verified email.
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The strongest fits for Reading Writers are Artists, Writers & Performers. Reading Writers has an arts audience.
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Reading Writers is an arts podcast with 38 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Mar 4, 202651 minS3Charlotte puzzles over who exactly wrote Brighton Rock before Jo shares a newfound fascination with big machines, spurred in part by Don Gillmor’s On Oil . A conversation with the preternaturally wise Rayne Fisher-Quann...
Episode #14
Tree-Based Horror: Nicholas Russell on Algernon Blackwood’s The Wendigo and Other Stories
Feb 25, 20261 hourS3Jo and Charlotte turn their attention to Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe’s mindblowing A Personal Matter and Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico and Cuba , a collection translated by Langston Hughes, before they’re joined by...
Feb 18, 202658 minS3Charlotte and Jo go deep on jealousy, self-hatred, and vulnerability in a conversation that touches on A Separate Peace , The Go-Between , Beowulf , and more. Then the canny and intrepid Maya Binyam joins for a...
Feb 4, 20261h 7mS3Jo takes us on a whirlwind tour of their recent reading, including Mary Helen Washington’s Paule Marshall: A Writer’s Life, and Charlotte explains why Susanna Moore’s In the Cut is one of the most thrilling novels she’s...
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Jan 28, 20261h 1mS3Charlotte and Jo revisit Rebecca Novack’s Murder Bimbo before taking a quick tour of the Russian Civil War and comrade crushes through Nikolai Ostrovsky’s How The Steel Was Tempered. They’re then joined by the...
Jan 21, 20261h 4mS3At last, the audio from December's Bookforum x Reading Writers live holiday event! The justly celebrated novelist Stephanie Wambugu joins Charlotte and Jo to talk about the controversial and inescapable Perfection by...
Jan 14, 20261h 1mS3The hosts discuss Stephanie Wambugu’s justly-hyped novel Lonely Crowds before they’re joined by Noah Kulwin, an avowed Macdonaldhead who details the pleasures of private eye fiction through 1966’s Black Money. ...
Jan 7, 20261h 6mS3Charlotte and Jo spring into the new year with a conversation about ancient poetry: Beowulf, The Iliad, and Dante’s Inferno as translated by Mark Musa, Mary Jo Bang, and Danny Lavery. They’re then joined by the wise and...
Episode #7
A Year in Reading
Dec 31, 202538 minS3In this host-only bonus episode, Charlotte and Jo discuss some of their most memorable reads of 2025. Authors discussed include Arthur C. Clarke, Shon Faye, Sarah Schulman, Ai Yazawa, Marjane Satrapi, Ariana Reines...
Dec 17, 202559 minS3In a scandalous rejection of holiday spirit, Jo and Charlotte reflect on the dark, elegant pleasures of Gabrielle Wittkopf’s The Necrophiliac alongside contemporary novel conventions as deployed in Rebecca Novack’s...
Dec 3, 202549 minS3Charlotte delves into Ecclesiastes through the work of liberation theologist Elsa Támez (When the Horizons Close) before Jo shares some of Pierre Guyotat’s horny, rapturous literary memoir, Idiocy. Icon of many RW...
Nov 26, 202557 minS3Jo and Charlotte discuss secret gardens, indoor kids, and Peter Pan’s baby teeth before they’re joined by culture-shaping Annelise Ogaard, who introduces listeners to the lavish, creepy world of Gabrielle Wittkop’s...
Nov 19, 20251h 9mS3Charlotte overcomes her resistance to novels about sexual abuse in order to read Kate Elizabeth Russell’s excellent My Dark Vanessa, after which Jo introduces listeners to the freewheeling criminality of Diane DiMassa’s...
Nov 12, 202556 minS3This week, Jo discovers the seminal elegance of Sylvia Wynter’s Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World, while Charlotte considers how well she would fare if she traveled back in time to the era of Alexander the...
Nov 5, 20251h 3mS3Reading Writers is BACK, and in partnership with Bookforum Magazine! In this first episode of Season 3, hosts Jo and Charlotte delve into the (separate) letter collections of Vincent Van Gogh and D.H. Lawrence before...
Jan 1, 202552 minS2In an incendiary season finale, the insightful and hilarious K. Austin Collins joins to discuss Dennis Cooper's controversial classic, The Sluts. Other topics of debate include the old internet, social media in fiction...
Dec 23, 202450 minS2Charlotte comes in salty about Lorrie Moore’s annoying 9/11 novel A Gate at the Stairs, while Jo has been awed by Cockroaches, Scholastique Mukasonga’s memoir of losing her family in the Rwandan genocide. Send...
Dec 12, 20241h 13mS2Charlotte and Jo enthuse briefly but ardently about friend of the pod’s Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection and Helen Humphreys’ Followed By The Lark before the powerhouse Shon Faye joins for a rollicking take on Germaine...
Dec 6, 20241h 15mS2Jo discovers one of the most fascinating books of all time with Extraterrestrial Languages by Daniel Oberhaus, while Charlotte issues her verdict on whether Lional Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin lives up to its...
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