In this episode, Kelsie interviews Lisa Endo Cooper and Bremond Berry MacDougall who met on the first day of seventh grade and quickly discovered their shared love for books. Together, they read everything they could get their hands on—from Anne of Green Gables to War and Peace. Forty years, five children, other careers, and countless books read later, they founded Quite Literally Books, a publishing company devoted to bringing awareness to ought-to-be-in-print books by women authors and sparking essential conversations about the American literary canon: Who is included? And who gets to decide? Our first list consists of new editions of three forgotten but timeless books: Plum Bun by Jessie Redmond Fauset, The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, and The Pink House by Nelia Gardner White. Let’s get into this!
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Host: Kelsie Eckert and Brooke Sullivan
Editor: Tyler Cardwell
Producer: Haley Brook
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