Hiatus Replay: Lucia Berlin — A Manual for Cleaning Women with Mimi Pond

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Back with new episodes on January 30. Lucia Berlin has been called one of America's "best kept secrets.” We’ll be discussing Berlin’s engrossing short short story collection A Manual for Cleaning Women, published posthumously in 2015 and soon to be adapted for the screen by Pedro Almodovar. Joining us is a longtime friend of Berlin’s, the inimitable Mimi Pond, a cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Paris Review.
Discussed in this episode:
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin (us.macmillan.com/books/9781250094735)
The Simpsons, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire” (emmys.com/shows/simpsons)
A Manual for Cleaning Women adaptation (Pedro Almodovar) (imdb.com/title/tt11760798)
Over-Easy by Mimi Pond (drawnandquarterly.com/over-easy)
The Customer Is Always Wrong by Mimi Pond (amazon.com/Customer-Always-Wrong-Mimi-Pond/dp/…)
Mimi Pond on Instagram (instagram.com/mimipondovereasy/?hl=en)
The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Way_of_Death)
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet the Spy with Leslie Brody (lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/19-louise-fitzhugh…)
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