Hiatus Replay: Hilma Wolitzer — Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket

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We're back with all new episodes on Jan. 30, 2024. Join us for a wonderfully funny and poignant conversation about life, death, and motherhood with award-winning writer Hilma Wolitzer. Her short stories, most of them originally appearing in magazines in the 1960s and 1970s, were re-discovered by her daughter, bestselling author Meg Wolitzer, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and published last summer in a new collection earning great critical acclaim. Today A Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket has received rave reviews from authors like Elizabeth Strout, Lauren Groff, and Tayari Jones and was named an NPR Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Editors’ Choice.
Discussed in this episode:
Today A Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket by Hilma Wolitzer (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) (bloomsbury.com/au/today-a-woman-went-mad-in-th…)
Ending by Hilma Wolitzer (amazon.com/Ending-Hilma-Wolitzer/dp/B000UC8CT4)
All That Jazz (1979 film) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_That_Jazz_(film))
An Available Man by Hilma Wolitzer (amazon.com/Available-Man-Random-Readers-Circle…)
Meg Wolitzer (megwolitzer.com)
Elizabeth Strout (elizabethstrout.com)
Lauren Groff (laurengroff.com)
Tayari Jones (tayarijones.com)
Gail Godwin (gailgodwin.com)
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode with Anne Zimmerman on M.F.K. Fisher (lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/63-mfk-fisher-how-…)
Maurice Sendak (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Sendak)
Jane Austen (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen)
Anatole Broyard (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatole_Broyard)
The Lost Daughter (2021 film) (imdb.com/title/tt9100054)
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante (europaeditions.com/book/9781933372426/the-lost…)
The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer (amazon.com/Ten-Year-Nap-Meg-Wolitzer/dp/159448…)
The Saturday Evening Post (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saturday_Evening_Post)
Downton Abbey (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downton_Abbey)
“Sometimes I Tell Myself” by Hilma Wolitzer (wcwonline.org/Women-s-Review-of-Books-Sept/Oct…)
Other People’s Houses by Lore Segal (amazon.com/Other-People%C2%92s-Houses-Lore-Seg…)
Her First American by Lore Segal (amazon.com/Her-First-American-Lore-Segal/dp/15…)
Small Moments by Nancy Huddleston Packer (amazon.com/Small-Moments-Illinois-short-fictio…)
The Dive from Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer (amazon.com/Dive-Clausens-Pier-Novel/dp/0375727…)
Jenny Diski (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Diski)
Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor (amazon.com/Blaming-Virago-Modern-Classics-Eliz…)
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (nyrb.com/products/mrs-palfrey-at-the-claremont)
The Devastating Boys by Elizabeth Taylor (amazon.com/Devastating-Boys-Virago-Modern-Clas…)
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