Before The Literati officially came into being, a group of language-loving women met up in Zurich to read out-loud to each other. That gathering inspired the birth of The Literati… and created a great list of interesting wordy bits to read and listen to.
Books discussed
- The Enchanted Hour, by Megan Cox Gurdon
- The Power, by Naomi Alderman
- The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
- Thick by Tracy McMillan Cotton
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- Hausfrau by Jill Essbaum
- The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jesimin
- Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay
- The Surrender Experiment by Michael A. Singer
“Humankind has flourished with the sharing of stories from its earliest days. By reviving the art of reading aloud, we can reclaim an old pleasure, one that has an amazing capacity to draw us closer to one another.”
From The Enchanted Hour by Meghan Cox Gurdon
Other ground covered
Poetry from Margaret Atwood ‘Sekhmet, The Lion-Headed Goddess Of War‘ and a few podcast recommendations:
- Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness
- 99% Invisible “Palaces for the People”