Podcast appearances and mentions of Miriam Toews

On this episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Roxanna are discussing: Bookish Moments: shifts in our reading and brain farts Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately Deep Dive: reading Canadian elbows up style The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site) .  .  .  .  1:55 - Ad For Ourselves 2:01 - Currently Reading Patreon 7:03 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week 7:25 - CR Season 7: Episode 24 12:21 - CR Season 7: Episode 36 12:26 - Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri 12:51 - Song of Blood and Stone by L. Penelope 14:18 - Our Current Reads 14:24 - Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu (Roxanna) 18:57 - Coven by Soman Chainani (Kaytee) 19:10 - The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani 23:32 - The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe (Roxanna) 28:55 - The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus by Emma Knight (Kaytee) 29:17 - Fabled Bookshop 33:28 - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 34:03 - The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hossain (Roxanna) 38:26 - Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell (Kayee) 38:40 - Schuler Books 44:56 - Reading Canadian 48:48 - Canada Reads 48:51 - The Giller Prize 49:21 - The Push by Ashley Audrain 50:06 - Room by Emma Donoghue 50:18 - The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue 50:29 - The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue 52:01 - The Fabulous Zed Watson! by Basil Sylvester 53:18 - Women Talking by Miriam Toews  55:00 - Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley 55:08 - Finding Me by Viola Davis 55:57 - Washington Black by Esi Edugyan 56:49 - Ayesha At Last by Uzma Jalaluddin 56:53 - Three Holidays and A Wedding by Uzma Jalaluddin and Marissa Stapley 57:02 - Much Ado About Nada Uzma Jalaluddin 57:32 - Five Little Indians by Michelle Good 1:02:20 - The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan 1:03:40 - Lucky by Marissa Stapley 1:06:24 - Meet Us At The Fountain 1:07:05 - I wish there was an easier way to export and download kindle notes and highlights. (Roxanna) 1:08:57 - I wish to press Happy Place by Emily Henry. (Kaytee) 1:09:00 - Happy Place by Emily Henry   Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon Bookish Friends Receive: The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. May's IPL is a new indie to the rotation - Dog Eared Books in Ames, Iowa. Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business.  All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller From the Editor's Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts Connect With Us: The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

Our Summer Throwback series continues. Even when playing old ladies, she's beautiful. Sheila McCarthy is one of those people you feel like you've known forever. And maybe we have. She's been in everything, and now stars in Sarah Polley's “Women Talking”, the Oscar-winning movie based on a true story by Miriam Toews about Mennonite women and girls drugged and then raped by men they know in their Bolivian colony. It's all about violence and women talking!!!! It's important, and it works. Sheila talks about learning to say sorry to someone who's been abused, getting the role, and having her feet washed by the Queen! (Aka Claire Foy, who yes, is also in the movie)Sheila's an actor, dancer, and singer. She's been at it since she was 5. She first broke through in “I've Heard the Mermaids Singing”, then in “Emily of New Moon”, “Little Mosque on the Prairie”, and in many Anne of Green Gables shows. She has won gobs of Genies, Geminis, ACTRA's. WM You can watch this episode on our YouTube channel. A transcription of this episode is available here. We have a new sponsor! Embark is owned by a not-for-profit foundation, and they only do education planning and savings. They are passionate about helping students reach their full potential. The Embark Student Plan is a registered education savings plan (RESP) that supports your child's journey to and through post-secondary education. Start an account using the promo code REPUTE100 and we'll contribute $100. We love writing and would love for you to read what we write. Sign Up for our Substack Newsletter. If you would like to support the show, we do have partner opportunities available. Please email Wendy and Maureen at womenofir@gmail.com We now have a YouTube Channel! Please hit the Subscribe button when you get there. And because you asked for it - Future episodes will be in video form. https://www.youtube.com/@WomenofIllRepute Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Miriam Toews's novel, Women Talking, the women of a remote Mennonite colony are hold secret meetings to talk about the crimes of the men who they live alongside. After years of being told that they were suffering from hysterical delusions, the women “came to understand that they were collectively dreaming one dream, and that it wasn't a dream at all.” Women Talking is a response to the real life events on a Mennonite settlement in Bolivia between 2005 and 2009. Miriam Toews talks to World Book Club readers in Toronto and around the world about her unique and powerful story about the power of language and solidarity.

This week's book guest is Fight Night by Miriam Toews.In this episode Sara and Cariad discuss air travel, mental health, embarrassing parents and farts. Thank you for reading with us. We like reading with you!Trigger warning: In this episode we mention suicide. Fight Night by Miriam Toews is available to buy here or on Apple Books here.Tickets for our live shows on the 3 March and 9 April are available to buy here.Sara's debut novel Weirdo is published by Faber & Faber and is available to buy here.Cariad's book You Are Not Alone is published by Bloomsbury and is available to buy here.Follow Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club on Instagram @saraandcariadsweirdosbookclub and Twitter @weirdosbookclub Recorded and edited by Naomi Parnell for Plosive.Artwork by Welcome Studio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What happens when you realize the people in charge don't have the answers. Prologue: Guest Host Chana Joffe-Walt asks her kids when they first encountered adult fallibility. (8 minutes)Act One: A middle schooler really wants to trust the adults have her best interests in mind. But some of the most powerful people at her school begin to make that very difficult. (27 minutes)Postscript: In Israel and Gaza, children are directly facing the fact that the adults around them cannot protect them. (4 minutes)Act Two: Comedian Gary Gulman on a choice his dad made for him when he was seven years old. (11 minutes)Act Three: There are many kids who do not gradually discover that grown ups don't have a handle on everything.  These kids already know. Miriam Toews's novel, “Fight Night,” is about a nine-year-old named Swiv who takes care of her grandma and manages her mom's mental health struggles. Even simple tasks can become complicated, like taking them both on the bus. (7 minutes)Transcripts are available at thisamericanlife.org

Even when playing old ladies, she's beautiful. Sheila McCarthy is one of those people you feel like you've known forever. And maybe we have. She's been in everything, and now stars in Sarah Polley's “Women Talking”, the Oscar-winning movie based on a true story by Miriam Toews about Mennonite women and girls drugged and then raped by men they know in their Bolivian colony. It's all about violence and women talking!!!! It's important, and it works. Sheila talks about learning to say sorry to someone who's been abused, getting the role, and having her feet washed by the Queen! (Aka Claire Foy, who yes, is also in the movie)Sheila's an actor, dancer, and singer. She's been at it since she was 5. She first broke through in “I've Heard the Mermaids Singing”, then in “Emily of New Moon”, “Little Mosque on the Prairie”, and in many Anne of Green Gables shows. She has won gobs of Genies, Geminis, ACTRA's. WM You can watch this episode on our YouTube channel. A transcription of this episode is available here. We have a new sponsor! Embark is owned by a not-for-profit foundation, and they only do education planning and savings. They are passionate about helping students reach their full potential. The Embark Student Plan is a registered education savings plan (RESP) that supports your child's journey to and through post-secondary education. Start an account using the promo code REPUTE100 and we'll contribute $100. We love writing and would love for you to read what we write. Sign Up for our Substack Newsletter. If you would like to support the show, we do have partner opportunities available. Please email Wendy and Maureen at womenofir@gmail.com We now have a YouTube Channel! Please hit the Subscribe button when you get there. And because you asked for it - Future episodes will be in video form. https://www.youtube.com/@WomenofIllRepute Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After inviting musician and friend Kristine Flaherty aka “K. Flay” to choose a book for JEN'S BOOKSHELF, Jennifer and K. Flay sit down to discuss her selection, All My Puny Sorrows written by author Miriam Toews. The novel follows the bond between two sisters, topics of depression, family dynamics and what it really means to call a place “home”. Find out why K.Flay wants to share this book with as many people as possible, and what happens when Jennifer has an in-depth conversation with a fellow book lover and someone who has (somehow) read more books than her. 

Miriam Toews, Olga Tokarczuk and detective fiction – welcome to episode 119! In the first half of this episode, we discuss detective fiction – do we prefer the mystery-solver to be a professional or an amateur? And in the second

Jes and Sarah are joined by special guest Paige on the latest episode of Beyond the Shelves! This month they're talking all about being a librarian - why they became one, what their day-to-day is like, and they share some fun stories about working on the floor. Don't forget - Summer Reading is underway! Adults can take part in the Summer Checkout Challenge, and kids can take part in the Summer Reading Challenge. Learn more at dmpl.org/summer-reading.   Show Notes What We're Reading From Hollywood with Love, by Scott Meslow Yours Truly, by Abby Jimenez Fourth Wing, by Rebecca Yarros Rouge, by Mona Awad Love, Theoretically, by Ali Hazelwood Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, by Mason Currey First Dibs Baking Yesteryear, by B. Dylan Hollis Let Us Descend, by Jesmyn Ward Do Your Worst, by Rosie Danan Best Bets What the Wind Knows, by Amy Harmon Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold, by Bolu Babalola Lore Olympus, by Rachel Smythe Olga Dies Dreaming, by Xochitl Gonzalez Fight Night, by Miriam Toews

Memorable Buys from Indie Bookstores: Just Another Love Song by Kerry Winfrey from The Ripped Bodice The Bookshelf Shelf Subscription Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant + Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro from Vroman'sThe Dutch House by Ann Patchett from The Tattered Cover Women Talking by Miriam Toews from Elliott Bay Book CompanyCult Classic by Sloane Crosley from Powell's Favorite Indie Bookstores:A Capella Books in AtlantaTrident in BostonLivraria Lello in PortoThe Book Mill in Montague, MAThird Place Books from RavennaEagle Harbor BooksBlackwellsRecommendations from Listeners:Poor Richards in Colorado Springs  @thebookish.typeVroman's in Pasadena  @thebookish.typeImprint Bookstore in Port Townsend, WA  @thelivelylife Chaucers Books in Santa Barbara, CA  @mackenzierobitailleCrow Bookshop and Phoenix Books in Burlington, VT  @em_jacobs_readsNorthshire Books in Manchester, VT  @em_jacobs_readsAll She Wrote Books in Somerville, MA  @allshewrotebooksPark Road Books in Charlotte, NC  @thebookishbollinger Broadways Books in Portland, OR  @maxine.sferra.pho

This week, Madigan first gives some advice to listeners on how to have relationships with right-leaning family members. For news topics, the firing of both Tucker Carlson from Fox news and Don Lemon from CNN on Monday, plus the barring of Zooey Zephyr, the first trans woman elected to Montana legislature, from the House floor. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp! Give online therapy a try at BetterHelp.com/YANF and get on your way to being your best self. JOIN ME ON PATREON FOR THE ANGRY FEMINIST BOOK CLUB! Check out the most recent Patreon episodes covering, “Women Talking” by Miriam Toews, as well as full coverage of the book Baracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston, available NOW! https://www.patreon.com/angryneighborhoodfeminist Listen to the up-coming book Still Learning by India Oxenberg by clicking the link below! https://www.audible.com/pd/Still-Learning-Audiobook/B08L3TKB5G GET YOUR YANF MERCH! https://yanfpodcast.threadless.com/  Do you have a topic that you want the show to take on?    Email: neighborhoodfeminist@gmail.com Social media:     Instagram: @angryneighborhoodfeminist **Don't forget to REVIEW and SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Madigan dives into everything American Girl, from the historical dolls to the company's books and catalogues. What was the company projecting to the American Girl generation through their products? This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp! Give online therapy a try at BetterHelp.com/YANF and get on your way to being your best self. JOIN ME ON PATREON FOR THE ANGRY FEMINIST BOOK CLUB! Check out the most recent Patreon episodes covering, “Women Talking” by Miriam Toews, as well as full coverage of the book Baracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston, available NOW! https://www.patreon.com/angryneighborhoodfeminist Listen to the up-coming book Still Learning by India Oxenberg by clicking the link below! https://www.audible.com/pd/Still-Learning-Audiobook/B08L3TKB5G GET YOUR YANF MERCH! https://yanfpodcast.threadless.com/  Do you have a topic that you want the show to take on?    Email: neighborhoodfeminist@gmail.com Social media:     Instagram: @angryneighborhoodfeminist **Don't forget to REVIEW and SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Madigan covers the three senseless shootings of teenagers across the United States, and some statistics on the insane amount of gun owners. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp! Give online therapy a try at BetterHelp.com/YANF and get on your way to being your best self. JOIN ME ON PATREON FOR THE ANGRY FEMINIST BOOK CLUB! Check out the most recent Patreon episodes covering, “Women Talking” by Miriam Toews available NOW! https://www.patreon.com/angryneighborhoodfeminist Listen to the up-coming book Still Learning by India Oxenberg by clicking the link below! https://www.audible.com/pd/Still-Learning-Audiobook/B08L3TKB5G GET YOUR YANF MERCH! https://yanfpodcast.threadless.com/  Do you have a topic that you want the show to take on?    Email: neighborhoodfeminist@gmail.com Social media:     Instagram: @angryneighborhoodfeminist **Don't forget to REVIEW and SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Madigan and Keegan tell the story of the Jane Collective, a women-run underground abortion operation from 1968-1972. This episode is also brought to you by BetterHelp! Give online therapy a try at BetterHelp.com/YANF and get on your way to being your best self. JOIN ME ON PATREON FOR THE ANGRY FEMINIST BOOK CLUB! Check out the most recent Patreon episodes covering, “Women Talking” by Miriam Toews available NOW! https://www.patreon.com/angryneighborhoodfeminist Listen to the up-coming book Still Learning by India Oxenberg by clicking the link below! https://www.audible.com/pd/Still-Learning-Audiobook/B08L3TKB5G GET YOUR YANF MERCH! https://yanfpodcast.threadless.com/  Do you have a topic that you want the show to take on?    Email: neighborhoodfeminist@gmail.com Social media:     Instagram: @angryneighborhoodfeminist **Don't forget to REVIEW and SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Madigan will discuss the expulsion and reinstatement of Tennessee Representatives Justin Pearson and Justin Jones, a mass shooting at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky, and the controversy over Dylan Mulvaney's Bud Lite sponsorship. This episode is also brought to you by BetterHelp! Give online therapy a try at BetterHelp.com/YANF and get on your way to being your best self. JOIN ME ON PATREON FOR THE ANGRY FEMINIST BOOK CLUB! Check out the most recent Patreon episodes covering, “Women Talking” by Miriam Toews available NOW! https://www.patreon.com/angryneighborhoodfeminist GET YOUR YANF MERCH! https://yanfpodcast.threadless.com/  Do you have a topic that you want the show to take on?    Email: neighborhoodfeminist@gmail.com Social media:     Instagram: @angryneighborhoodfeminist **Don't forget to REVIEW and SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi friends, In this episode, we catch up a bit on life stuff, talk about this incredible Maggie Smith essay: My Marriage Was Never the Same After That (also we're so excited to buy her book!) and discuss our book club pick: Fight Night by Miriam Toews. Listen to the NPR segment about Ellen's book here! For our next book club, we'll read Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. Read with us! We'll release the episode in June. xxThe Good Moms

Women Talking is a 2022 drama film written and directed by Sarah Polley. It is based on the Canadian 2018 novel of the same name by Miriam Toews, and inspired by the gas-facilitated rapes that occurred at the Manitoba Colony, a remote and isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia. It features an ensemble cast that includes Oscar-Winning actresses, Rooney Mara , Claire Foy (young “Queen Elizabeth” in Seasons 1 & 2 of Netflix's The Crown), Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Ben Whishaw, and Frances McDormand, who also served as a producer on the film. Women Talking premiered at the 49th Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2022, and was released in the United States via select theaters on December 23, 2022, before a wide release on January 27, 2023, by United Artists Releasing. The film received positive reviews from critics, who lauded Polley's screenplay and direction, the performances of the cast (particularly of Foy, Buckley, and Whishaw) and score. It was named one of the top ten films of 2022 by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute, won Best Adapted Screenplay at the 28th Critics' Choice Awards, 75th Writers Guild of America Awards, and the 95th Academy Awards, where it was also nominated for Best Picture. In this episode, I take you behind-the-scenes at Tiff (Toronto International Film Festival) 2022 to share with you more about the film, the various ways the women in the film deal with rape & their Mennonite culture in a riveting Q & Q with Polley and the cast minus Frances McDormand who was not in attendance.

Mamileiros e mamiletes, o que inspira o Mamilos Cultura dessa semana é o filme Entre Mulheres. Baseado no livro homônimo de Miriam Toews, Entre Mulheres acompanha um grupo de mulheres de uma comunidade religiosa do interior dos Estados Unidos, enquanto elas discutem o caminho que irão tomar depois de descobrirem que estão sendo abusadas pelos homens da comunidade. O longa é dirigido por Sarah Polley e recebeu duas indicações ao Oscar 2023, de melhor filme e roteiro adaptado. Aperta o play e vamos juntos! _____ FALE CONOSCO . Email: mamilos@b9.com.br _____ CONTRIBUA COM O MAMILOS Quem apoia o Mamilos ajuda a manter o podcast no ar e ainda participa do nosso grupo especial no Telegram. É só R$9,90 por mês! Quem assina não abre mão. https://www.catarse.me/mamilos _____ Equipe Mamilos Mamilos é uma produção do B9 A apresentação é de Cris Bartis e Ju Wallauer. Pra ouvir todos episódios, assine nosso feed ou acesse mamilos.b9.com.br Quem coordenou essa produção foi Beatriz Souza. Com a estrutura de pauta e roteiro escrito por Cris Bartis e Ju Wallauer. A edição foi de Mariana Leão e as trilhas sonoras, de Angie Lopez. A coordenação digital é feita por Agê Barros. O B9 tem direção executiva de Cris Bartis, Ju Wallauer e Carlos Merigo. O atendimento e negócios é feito por Telma Zenaro.

A few years ago, a bunch of photos depicting British military men wearing dresses on stage during World War II were discovered. The images were hidden for more than 8 decades due to gender norms, homophobia, and of course, the patriarchy, which thought the images emasculated the soldiers. Here's the story of the drag shows put on by soldiers amongst the fighting in World War 2, and how we struggle to this day as the Right uses drag shows and culture as a means of distraction from the REAL issues. This episode is also brought to you by BetterHelp! Give online therapy a try at BetterHelp.com/YANF and get on your way to being your best self. JOIN ME ON PATREON FOR THE ANGRY FEMINIST BOOK CLUB! Check out the most recent Patreon episode covering, “Women Talking” by Miriam Toews, and check out the first episode covering Zora, available NOW! https://www.patreon.com/angryneighborhoodfeminist GET YOUR YANF MERCH! https://yanfpodcast.threadless.com/  Do you have a topic that you want the show to take on?    Email: neighborhoodfeminist@gmail.com Social media:     Instagram: @angryneighborhoodfeminist **Don't forget to REVIEW and SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Madigan discusses the arrest of Donald Trump, an array of harmful bills being presented or passed in the country, and how a group of nuns made their support for trans and nonbinary people during the Trans Day of Visibility. This episode is also brought to you by BetterHelp! Give online therapy a try at BetterHelp.com/YANF and get on your way to being your best self. JOIN ME ON PATREON FOR THE ANGRY FEMINIST BOOK CLUB! Check out the most recent Patreon episode covering, “Women Talking” by Miriam Toews, and check out the first episode covering Zora, available NOW! https://www.patreon.com/angryneighborhoodfeminist GET YOUR YANF MERCH! https://yanfpodcast.threadless.com/  Do you have a topic that you want the show to take on?    Email: neighborhoodfeminist@gmail.com Social media:     Instagram: @angryneighborhoodfeminist **Don't forget to REVIEW and SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, the MennoBrarians discuss the Oscar winning movie adaptation of Women Talking (tho we did not yet know at the time we recorded that it would win!). Women Talking was written by Sarah Polley, who won an Oscar for Best Adaptation. We covered the book Women Talking by Canadian Mennonite author Miriam Toews in our last episode, season 4 episode 13.  Tune in for discussions on differences between the book and the film, our favorite moments in the movie, and which we liked best. Content warning: Women Talking, while fiction, is based on true stories of sexual assault and rape perpetrated against members (primarily women & children) of the Manitoba Mennonite Old Colony community. While not discussed graphically, references to rape, sexual assault, and suicidal ideation are made throughout this episode. Other Reviews of Women Talking (book & movie)Women Talking: A Displaced Act of Female Imagination, Rebecca JanzenWomen Talking: Review, William LoewenWhat the film Women Talking loses (and preserves) from the 2018 novel, Alissa Wilkinson (Vox)For more information about the true story Women Talking is based on: The Ghost Rapes of Bolivia (Vice) A Time follow up piece to the Vice article.  Bolivian Mennonite rape victims update (from a Canadian Mennonite pastor/former Bolivian Mennonite Central Committee worker)  The Mennonite Rapes: A trial Tears apart a religious community (WWRN)For more information, and first-hand accounts from sexual assault survivors in Mennonite, Amish, and Anabaptist communities and contexts: The Plain People's Podcast https://theplainpeoplespodcast.libsyn.com/ Plain Rainbows / the Misfit Amish: https://www.themisfitamish.com/plain-rainbows Into Account: https://intoaccount.org/ Our Stories Untold https://www.ourstoriesuntold.com/about/ We always love hearing from listeners! You can reach us at plainwrongpod at gmail.com, or on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. If you want to help support the podcast financially, please consider joining our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/plainwrongpod or buying merch at TeePublic Follow us: Twitter: https://twitter.com/plainwrongpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plainwrongpod/ Website: http://plainwrongpod.com/ “Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal. Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 and following) by Abigail Adams.

Hey ya'll! I'm out of town in good ol' Texas, so please enjoy this REWIND episode from 2020! Not all notorious women used their power for good... In the series "Bad Girls" I discuss women behaving badly, and one of the worst was Phyllis Schlafly, the woman who spearheaded the campaign against the ERA and helped to grow the conservative right politics in American Women. This episode is also brought to you by BetterHelp! Give online therapy a try at BetterHelp.com/YANF and get on your way to being your best self. JOIN ME ON PATREON FOR THE ANGRY FEMINIST BOOK CLUB! Check out the most recent Patreon episode covering, “Women Talking” by Miriam Toews, and check out the first episode covering Zora, available NOW! https://www.patreon.com/angryneighborhoodfeminist GET YOUR YANF MERCH! https://yanfpodcast.threadless.com/  Do you have a topic that you want the show to take on?    Email: neighborhoodfeminist@gmail.com Social media:     Instagram: @angryneighborhoodfeminist **Don't forget to REVIEW and SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Madigan discusses the tragic mass-school-shooting in Nashville at the Covenent School, and the reactions from the public and politicians. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp! Give online therapy a try at BetterHelp.com/YANF and get on your way to being your best self. JOIN ME ON PATREON FOR THE ANGRY FEMINIST BOOK CLUB! Check out the most recent Patreon episode covering, “Women Talking” by Miriam Toews, and check out the first episode covering Zora, available NOW! https://www.patreon.com/angryneighborhoodfeminist GET YOUR YANF MERCH! https://yanfpodcast.threadless.com/  Do you have a topic that you want the show to take on?    Email: neighborhoodfeminist@gmail.com Social media:     Instagram: @angryneighborhoodfeminist **Don't forget to REVIEW and SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we chat with Kelsey Madges, an Ohio middle school librarian and book lover. We talk about the highs and the lows of working in school libraries. If you're like us, it's been almost 40 years since you were a middle schooler and lots has changed for kids and the librarians who help them, such as the use of Chromebooks in classes and the current prevalence of book bans. But Kelsey is a book lover and supporter through and through. In fact she admits that she enjoys almost everything she reads. In this episode, we also cover how we feel about book quotes, why letter writing is still important, and what Carrie should have tattooed on her body. For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Book Lover. Books Mentioned In This Episode: 1- Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen 2- Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison   3- Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney   4- Graphic novels by Raina Telgemeier   5- Refugee by Alan Gratz   6- Two Degrees by Alan Gratz   7- Books by Paula Chase   8- Books by Matt Christopher    9- Books by Mike Lupica and Kwame Alexander   10- Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins   11- Harry Potter series by JK Rowling   12- Babysitter Club graphic novels by Raina Telgemeier and Gale Galligan    13- The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo   14- Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo   15- The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate   16- The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate   17- The One and Only Ruby by Katherine Applegate   18- The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas   19- Books by Coleen Hoover   20- Forever by Judy Blume   21- Books by Stephen King   22- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir   23- The Martian by Andy Weir   24- The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd   25- The Red Tent by Anita Diamant   27- This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel   28- A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle   29- Wishtree by Katherine Applegate   30- Women Talking by Miriam Toews   31- The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill   Broadway Theater shows mentioned—   1- Come From Away 

Hey Ragers! This week, we're going to discuss harmful and misogynistic dating advice throughout history and into today. How does it affect women and men? This episode is also brought to you by BetterHelp! Give online therapy a try at BetterHelp.com/YANF and get on your way to being your best self. JOIN ME ON PATREON FOR THE ANGRY FEMINIST BOOK CLUB! Check out the most recent Patreon episode covering, “Women Talking” by Miriam Toews, and check out the first episode covering Zora, available NOW! https://www.patreon.com/angryneighborhoodfeminist GET YOUR YANF MERCH! https://yanfpodcast.threadless.com/  Do you have a topic that you want the show to take on?    Email: neighborhoodfeminist@gmail.com Social media:     Instagram: @angryneighborhoodfeminist **Don't forget to REVIEW and SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey Ragers! This week, I'm talking about the possible arrest of Donald Trump, the LA Unified School District strike (where we will be briefly joined by my mom, Liz), and Max will hop on for the last topic, where we will chat about NHL teams and players opting out of participating in Pride Night activities. **If you want an exclusive FOURTH topic that was removed from this week's episode for time, join the Feminist Faves tier on Patreon** This episode was brought to you by Nutrafol! Go to Nutrafol.com and enter the promo code "ANGRY" to save $15 off your first month's subscription! JOIN ME ON PATREON FOR THE ANGRY FEMINIST BOOK CLUB! Check out the most recent Patreon episode covering, “Women Talking” by Miriam Toews, and check out the first episode covering Zora, available NOW! https://www.patreon.com/angryneighborhoodfeminist GET YOUR YANF MERCH! https://yanfpodcast.threadless.com/  Do you have a topic that you want the show to take on?    Email: neighborhoodfeminist@gmail.com Social media:     Instagram: @angryneighborhoodfeminist **Don't forget to REVIEW and SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!** SOURCES: https://www.self.com/story/florida-bill-ban-period-talk https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/22/us/lausd-strike-school-workers-los-angeles-wednesday/index.html https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/elections/2022/07/27/this-accused-tampa-jan-6-insurrectionist-is-running-for-florida-house-from-jail/ https://www.queerty.com/out-player-luke-prokop-says-nhl-athletes-who-wont-wear-pride-jerseys-are-missing-the-larger-point-20230322 https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/blackhawks-will-not-wear-pride-jerseys-citing-player-safety-concerns-2023-03-23/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[REBROADCAST FROM January 9, 2023] The celebrated novel, Women Talking, by Miriam Toews, follows an isolated community of Mennonite women who must decide what to do after learning they had been suffering sexual attacks by men within the commune. Writer and director Sarah Polley joins us to discuss adapting the novel for the big screen. We are also joined by actor Jessie Buckley, who stars in the film as Mariche, a woman skeptical that leaving the community is the right thing to do. This segment is guest-hosted by Kerry Nolan.

This week, the MennoBrarians discuss Women Talking, a book by Canadian Mennonite author Miriam Toews that tells a fictional story based on true events that took place in the Old Colony Mennonite colony in Bolivia.  We will cover the movie in our next episode, which will be out the first week of April. We had not yet seen the movie when we recorded this episode on the book. Tune in for discussions on Canadian authors, depictions of Mennonites, theological dilemmas, and more. Content warning: Women Talking, while fiction, is based on true stories of sexual assault and rape perpetrated against members (primarily women & children) of the Manitoba Mennonite Old Colony community. While not discussed graphically, references to rape, sexual assault, and suicidal ideation are made throughout this episode.  Other Reviews of Women Talking (book & movie) Women Talking: A Displaced Act of Female Imagination, Rebecca JanzenWomen Talking: Review, William LoewenWhat the film Women Talking loses (and preserves) from the 2018 novel, Alissa Wilkinson (Vox)For more information about the true story Women Talking is based on: The Ghost Rapes of Bolivia (Vice) A Time follow up piece to the Vice article.  Bolivian Mennonite rape victims update (from a Canadian Mennonite pastor/former Bolivian Mennonite Central Committee worker)  The Mennonite Rapes: A trial Tears apart a religious community (WWRN)For more information, and first-hand accounts from sexual assault survivors in Mennonite, Amish, and Anabaptist communities and contexts: The Plain People's Podcast https://theplainpeoplespodcast.libsyn.com/ Plain Rainbows / the Misfit Amish: https://www.themisfitamish.com/plain-rainbows Into Account: https://intoaccount.org/ Our Stories Untold https://www.ourstoriesuntold.com/about/ -----We always love hearing from listeners! You can reach us at plainwrongpod at gmail.com, or on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. If you want to help support the podcast financially, please consider joining our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/plainwrongpod or buying merch at TeePublic Follow us: Twitter: https://twitter.com/plainwrongpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plainwrongpod/ Website: http://plainwrongpod.com/ “Just Plain Wrong” is produced, written and edited by Erin Milanese, Abby Nafziger and Matilda Yoder. Our intro music is played by Erin, and the outro by Miriam Augsburger. Both are "arrangements" of the Doxology from the Mennonite Hymnal. Logo design by Ida Yoder Short. Canva design (used for Social Media posts in Season 4 and following) by Abigail Adams.

Hey Ragers! This week, I wanted to bring you the first ever episode from Patreon's Angry Feminist Book Club, where I cover the author of Baracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", Zora Neale Hurston, and her work as an anthropologist and author. I hope you enjoy this episode, and if you want more from Patreon and the Angry Feminist Book Club, come join me! JOIN ME ON PATREON FOR THE ANGRY FEMINIST BOOK CLUB! Join me March 15tg to go over the text of this month's book, “Women Talking'” by Miriam Toews! https://www.patreon.com/angryneighborhoodfeminist GET YOUR YANF MERCH! https://yanfpodcast.threadless.com/  Do you have a topic that you want the show to take on?    Email: neighborhoodfeminist@gmail.com Social media:     Instagram: @angryneighborhoodfeminist **Don't forget to REVIEW and SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Madigan covers the new bill in South Carolina which would consider abortion to be murder with a possible sentence of death, the Florida ban on gender-affirming health care going into effect, and a viral moment where a right-wing author struggles to define "woke". JOIN ME ON PATREON FOR THE ANGRY FEMINIST BOOK CLUB! Join me March 15tg to go over the text of this month's book, “Women Talking'” by Miriam Toews! https://www.patreon.com/angryneighborhoodfeminist GET YOUR YANF MERCH! https://yanfpodcast.threadless.com/  Do you have a topic that you want the show to take on?    Email: neighborhoodfeminist@gmail.com Social media:     Instagram: @angryneighborhoodfeminist **Don't forget to REVIEW and SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on On Story, it's all about Women Talking, and I'm not just referencing our powerhouse guests, Academy Award-winning producer Dede Gardner and Oscar-nominated writer-director Sarah Polley, but also their newest film collaboration and adaptation, Women Talking. Women Talking is a drama feature based on Miriam Toews' critically acclaimed novel of the same name. Inspired by true events from a sequestered community in Bolivia, the film follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith amidst a series of assaults committed by the colony's men. This raw and vulnerable look at domestic violence is ultimately a story of women's resilience, and it's beautifully portrayed by leading actors Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessica Buckley, Judith Ivey and Frances McDormand. Austin Film Festival was thrilled to include this powerful film in our 2022 film slate. But a little more on the women talking in this post-screening Q&A. AFF was honored to award Dede Gardner with the 2022 Polly Platt Award for Producing, an Austin Film Festival award intended to recognize producers with a keen sense of story who have demonstrated a commitment to fostering new talent. Throughout her career, Gardner has produced many Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning films, including pioneering work such as Minari, If Beale Street Could Talk, Moonlight, The Big Short, Vice, Selma, 12 Years a Slave, And Terrence Malick's Palme d'Or winner, The Tree of Life. Her recent television releases include HBO's limited series, The Third Day, as well as the Amazon series, The Underground Railroad, and Outer Range. Joining Gardner is Women Talking's writer-director, Sarah Polley. Formerly an actress known for her leading role in the television series, Ramona, Polley made her directorial debut with her film, Away from Her, which was Oscar-nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay. Polley also received the Writer's Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay for her doc, Stories We Tell. Most recently, she executive-produced and wrote the Netflix limited series, Alias Grace, which she adapted from Margaret Atwood's novel. In short, Sarah Polley is a master at taking existing stories and filtering them through a lens of her own. AFF moderator Marissa Padden spoke with Dede Gardner and Sarah Polley after their screening at this year's Austin Film Festival to give our audience an insider's look at the art of adaptation and to host an honest conversation about tackling stories with difficult subjects. Sh! The women are talking, it's time to listen. Clips of Women Talking courtesy of United Artists Releasing.

We have Margaret Sanger to thank for the creation of sexual education, many of the rights to birth control that we now have today, as well as being the founder of Planned Parenthood. However, throughout her career, she was in bed with some shady, and outright evil people and groups in order to get ahead. Let's talk about the complicated life and work of Margaret Sanger, and weigh her positive contributions to society against the negatives. JOIN ME ON PATREON FOR THE ANGRY FEMINIST BOOK CLUB! Join me March 15tg to go over the text of this month's book, “Women Talking'” by Miriam Toews! https://www.patreon.com/angryneighborhoodfeminist GET YOUR YANF MERCH! https://yanfpodcast.threadless.com/  Do you have a topic that you want the show to take on?    Email: neighborhoodfeminist@gmail.com Social media:     Instagram: @angryneighborhoodfeminist **Don't forget to REVIEW and SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Women Talking: Movie Review from the Ray Taylor ShowShow topic: Join us as we dive into the powerful drama film Women Talking, based on the novel by Miriam Toews and directed by Sarah Polley. Starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, and Frances McDormand, this film tells the gripping story of the women of a remote Mennonite community in Bolivia who must decide how to respond to the horrifying abuse they've endured at the hands of the men. We'll discuss the film's themes of faith, forgiveness, and empowerment, and explore its powerful performances and thought-provoking storytelling.JOIN Inspired Disorder +PLUS Today! InspiredDisorder.com/plus Membership Includes:Ray Taylor Show - Full Week Ad Free (Audio+Video)Live Painting ArchiveEarly Access to The Many FacesMember Only Discounts and DealsPodcast Back Catalogue (14 Shows - 618 Episodes)Ray Taylor's Personal BlogCreative WritingAsk Me AnythingDaily Podcast: Ray Taylor Show - InspiredDisorder.com/rts Daily Painting: The Many Faces - InspiredDisorder.com/tmf ALL links: InspiredDisorder.com/links Genres: Drama

| Review | Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. Sarah Polley's big screen adaptation of the Miriam Toews novel Women Talking is the final Best Picture nomination we've yet to cover for this year's Academy Awards. Described as “an imagined response to real events,” it's a powerful story with a lot to say about religion, gender roles, power dynamics, institutionalized violence and oppression… you get the idea.

[REBROADCAST FROM January 9, 2023] The celebrated novel, Women Talking, by Miriam Toews, follows an isolated community of Mennonite women who must decide what to do after learning they had been suffering sexual attacks by men within the commune. Writer and director Sarah Polley joins us to discuss adapting the novel for the big screen. We are also joined by actor Jessie Buckley, who stars in the film as Mariche, a woman skeptical that leaving the community is the right thing to do.

This week's Nose has never asked the men for anything. Not a single thing. Women Talking is an adaptation of Miriam Toews's 2018 novel written and directed by Sarah Polley. It's Polley's fourth feature film as writer and director. Polley is nominated for the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, and the film is nominated for Best Picture. It's the story of the women of an isolated religious community choosing their path forward: do nothing, stay and fight, or leave. Women Talking stars Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, and more. And: The Consultant is, so far, an eight-episode comedy-thriller series from Prime Video. It is created for television by Tony Bagsallop based on the 2016 novel by Bentley Little. Christoph Waltz stars as Regus Patoff, who may be more than just the titular corporate consultant. Mercy Quaye's endorsements: Edge of Tomorrow on demand on HBO Max and available to rent on iTunes/Amazon/etc. The Tomorrow War on Prime Video Lindsay Lee Wallace's endorsements: The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar by Robin R. Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris Force Majeure on demand on HBO Max and available to rent on iTunes/Amazon/etc. Bill Yousman's endorsement: the music of Wayne Shorter Colin's endorsements: The Last of Us on HBO the podcast The Watch Some other stuff that happened this week, give or take: Wayne Shorter, Innovator During an Era of Change in Jazz, Dies at 89 His career as an influential tenor saxophonist and composer reached across more than half a century, tracking jazz's complex evolution during that span. ‘The Idol': How HBO's Next ‘Euphoria' Became Twisted ‘Torture Porn' Thirteen sources tell Rolling Stone that The Idol — Sam Levinson's new show with The Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp — has gone wildly, disgustingly off the rails This is the most populist Oscars in a long time So why doesn't it feel like it? The Great MLB Jersey Caper When players' jerseys mysteriously started to disappear three years ago, teams weren't just worried about the laundry—they were spooked by what seemed like a startling security breach. What came next: an all-out search for the thief. The End of the English Major Enrollment in the humanities is in free fall at colleges around the country. What happened? Chris Rock Is Finally Ready to Talk About Will Smith's Oscar Slap The stand-up comedian, going live with a new Netflix special a week before the Oscars, spent the past year on tour and working out material on the infamous Oscar slap Stop Groping Celebrities, You Creeps The New Black Film Canon From Touki Bouki to Friday, the 75 greatest movies by Black directors, as chosen by our special panel of filmmakers and critics. Why I Watch the Closing Credits of Every Movie I See One look is enough to challenge the myth of the genius auteur calling all the shots. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward Collection Will Be Auctioned in June by Sotheby's A ‘Cool Hand Luke' prop, Woodward's wedding dress, one of Newman's racing suits and a trove of 19th century American folk art are among the items offering “further insight into who they were beyond their glamorous Hollywood personas.” The Bidens ordered the same dish at a restaurant. Who does that? The Cult of Daniels How the directors of the universe-hopping kung fu drama Everything Everywhere All at Once became unlikely Oscar front-runners. Two Sides of the HBO Apocalypse ‘The Last of Us' and ‘Station Eleven' are a natural point of comparison, but what separates the series is ultimately more instructive than what lumps them together Artificial Digging: How Google's AI Now Reveals What Producers Sampled Are We Having Fun Yet?!: The Oral History of ‘Party Down' As the Starz comedy makes an unlikely return to air, its creators look back on creating a unique inside-Hollywood workplace sitcom, scrapping through a difficult development period, and getting gold from Adam Scott, Ken Marino, and Jane Lynch Netflix Announces ‘Stranger Things' Prequel — As a Stage Show Lord, We Are Doing the Double Down Again KFC is bringing back its breadless fried chicken sandwich, and it's 2010 all over again GUESTS: Mercy Quaye: Founder and principal consultant for The Narrative Project Lindsay Lee Wallace: Writes about culture, health care and health equity, and other stuff, too Bill Yousman: Professor of Media Studies at Sacred Heart University The Colin McEnroe Show is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode! Subscribe to The Noseletter, an email compendium of merriment, secrets, and ancient wisdom brought to you by The Colin McEnroe Show. Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Colin McEnroe and Cat Pastor contributed to this show.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We saw the film WOMEN TALKING and we couldn't rest until we had the chance to speak with the genius who wrote, directed, and is nominated for an Oscar for it: Sarah Polley.  This conversation is about hope, survival, imagination, and revolution. It's about burning it all down and building from the ashes.  Please listen to this conversation and then please watch the film. You will be powerfully changed.  CW // sexual assault About Sarah:  SARAH POLLEY is an Oscar-nominated director and award-winning actor whose works include Away From Her, Take This Waltz, and Stories We Tell. As an actor, Polley starred in a variety of films including The Sweet Hereafter, Go, Dawn of the Dead, Mr. Nobody, and My Life Without Me.   In 2022, Polley released an autobiographical collection of essays – Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory. More recently, Polley wrote and directed the film adaptation of Miriam Toews's novel Women Talking, which has since been nominated for several awards, including the Academy Awards, Critics' Choice Awards, and Golden Globe Awards. IG: @realsarahpolley To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With awards season in full swing, the Woman Beings sit down to review Academy-Award-nominated film, Women Talking. Directed by Sarah Polley and adapted from the novel by Miriam Toews, Women Talking is a story about the women in an isolated religious colony who come to the realization that the men in the colony have been drugging and raping them for years. They must decide whether or not they will do nothing, stay and fight, or leave. If you want to help support our content, feel free to shop these affiliate links from brands we love! Girlfriend Collective: https://girlfriendcollective.pxf.io/jWdG4Z --- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womanbeingpodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@womanbeingpodcast Website: https://www.womanbeingcommunity.com/

Her Ragers! This week was a long one for me, so this will be an extra mini-mini episode, but there were two really important stories I wanted to cover. The first was the devastating shooting at the University of Michigan, and the second was the murder of a 16 year old trans girl in Cheshire, England. To wrap up the episode, I'm going to read a bit to you about the book for next month's Angry Feminist Book Club, entitled Women Talking by Miriam Toews. This episode is brought to you by NutraBlast! Use Feminist20 for a 20% discount off your entire amazon order at checkout!! JOIN ME ON PATREON FOR THE ANGRY FEMINIST BOOK CLUB! Join me March 2nd to go over the text of this month's book, “Baracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo'” by Zora Neale Hurston, and check out the first episode covering Zora, available NOW! https://www.patreon.com/angryneighborhoodfeminist GET YOUR YANF MERCH! https://yanfpodcast.threadless.com/  Do you have a topic that you want the show to take on?    Email: neighborhoodfeminist@gmail.com Social media:     Instagram: @angryneighborhoodfeminist **Don't forget to REVIEW and SUBSCRIBE on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alison Herman talks to writer-director Sarah Polley about finding a balance between reality and allegory in a film adapted from a fictional novel based on true events, how her process has changed since becoming a parent and recovering from a head injury, what writing (and rewriting) this film taught her about rigor, and much more. Sarah Polley a writer, director, and actor. She wrote and directed the 2006 film AWAY FROM HER, which earned her first Academy Award nomination for adapted screenplay, as well as the 2011 film TAKE THIS WALZ, the 2012 documentary STORIES WE TELL, and is the writer of ALIAS GRACE, the 2017 miniseries adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel. Most recently, Sarah is the writer and director of WOMEN TALKING. The film is adapted from the Miriam Toews novel that was inspired by true events, and stars Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, and Frances McDormand as a group of women who have only two days to decide how to take action against a group of men who have been arrested for years of abuse toward the women in the remote and isolated Mennonite community. WOMEN TALKING premiered in December 2022 and is currently nominated for the Academy and Writers Guild Awards for Adapted Screenplay, as well as the Academy Award for Best Picture. Alison Herman is a staff writer for The Ringer, where she writes about culture in general and television in specific. When not fighting a losing battle against Peak TV, she tweets at @aherman2006. --- Before it was a podcast, OnWriting was a print publication. Check out OnWriting: The Print Archives. Read shownotes, transcripts, and other member interviews: www.onwriting.org/ Follow the Guild on social media: Twitter: @OnWritingWGAE | @WGAEast Facebook: /WGAEast Instagram: @WGAEast

Nuala McGovern talks to Irish actor Jessie Buckley about her new role as one of an extraordinary ensemble cast in the new film Women Talking. Based on the novel by Miriam Toews, it follows the women of an isolated religious community as they grapple with a huge decision they have to make, as a collective, following the discovery of male violence. Could God go gender neutral in the Church of England and no longer be referred to only as "he" but also as "they" and "she"? Rev Martine Oborne chair of Women and the Church which campaigns for "gender justice" in the church and journalist Anne Atkins discuss. Research estimates 1 in 5 women will lose a pregnancy in their lifetime and 1 in 20 will go through it more than once, but no official record is kept of how many miscarriages happen each year. After losing four pregnancies in the space of two years, with no obvious cause, Jennie Agg set out to understand why miscarriage remains such a profoundly misunderstood, under researched and under acknowledged experience. She has written about it in Life, Almost, which documents her path to motherhood and her search for answers. Dorset Police are investigating allegations that firefighters at Dorset and Wiltshire Fire Service had taken photos of women who had died in car accidents and shared the images on a Whatsapp group. In the group, male firefighters are alleged to have made degrading comments about the victims. Several female firefighters also spoke of sexual harassment, including claims a male firefighter demanded sexual favours at the scene of a fire. Nazir Afzal, the former chief prosecutor for North West England who carried out an independent review into the London Fire Brigade last year and Zoe Billingham, former head of the Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue consider if the fire service has a problem with its culture, and in particular women. Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Donald McDonald

Actor Denzel Washington talks about his turn as Lord Macbeth in the film The Tragedy of Macbeth, and what the legacy of the late Sidney Poitier means to him. Actor and comedian Jenny Slate talks about revisiting Marcel the Shell with Shoes On in a feature-length film based on the viral web series. Bestselling author Miriam Toews discusses her highly anticipated new novel, Fight Night, and what it says about family, resiliency and the fight for mental health.

The co-host of Good Christian Fun joins us to talk about a movie that is quite good, pretty Christian, and not a ton of fun. But it's also not, as Caroline points out, a "stone cold bummer." It's the latest film from Sarah Polley, based on a book by Miriam Toews, and is fascinating both on a literal and a metaphorical level. We get serious between goofs, and then lighten the mood with a Hotline letter about movie scores.What's GoodAlonso - Pointer Sisters' Sesame Street SongDrea - Yung Gravy gives bras to charityCaroline - Jessica Simpson's Open BookIfy - TikTok refrigerator hackITIDICThe Golden Globes Were on TV Again…Dave Bautista Says He's Ready to Leave Drax and the MCU Behind AFI Study Documents Women's Contributions to Early CinemaStaff PicksAlonso - Petite MamanDrea - My Year of DicksCaroline - M3GANIfy - also M3GANWith:Ify NwadiweDrea ClarkAlonso DuraldeCaroline ElyProduced by Marissa FlaxbartSr. Producer Laura Swisher

[REBROADCAST FROM April 10, 2019] Miriam Toews joins us to discuss her novel, Women Talking. The book tells the story of women in a Mennonite community who thought that they and other girls and women were being violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins, but eventually learn that they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community. It is now a film from director Sarah Polley. 

The celebrated novel, Women Talking, by Miriam Toews, follows an isolated community of Mennonite women who must decide what to do after learning they had been suffering sexual attacks by men within the commune. Writer and director Sarah Polley joins us to discuss adapting the novel for the big screen. We are also joined by actor Jessie Buckley, who stars in the film as Mariche, a woman skeptical that leaving the community is the right thing to do.   "Women Talking" is in select theaters now, and will expand to more theaters on January 20th. 

Claire Foy is a hugely talented pro. She's been delivering big on screen and on stage for years, she won two Emmys for her work in The Crown, she earned four BAFTA nominations, two for The Crown, one for First Man and another for Wolf Hall, and now she's rightfully in the awards season conversation yet again for her performance in Sarah Polley's Women Talking. However, even with all those achievements, she hesitates to give herself credit for giving her young Women Talking co-stars good advice. (Even though it's spot on stuff.)The film is based on Miriam Toews' best-selling novel about a group of women living in a secluded religious colony who must figure out how to respond to a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men. Do they stay and act as though nothing happened? Do they stay and fight back? Or, do they leave everything they've ever known behind to build a better life elsewhere?With the film now playing in select theaters and set to expand nationwide on January 27th, Foy took the time to join us for an episode of Collider Ladies Night to revisit her journey from drama school to “breaking out” via The Crown to being part of an exceptional ensemble in Women Talking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this special episode of the Shakespeare and Company podcast, we look back at our bookseller's favourite reads of the year.Some of these titles were published in 2022, others just happened to rise to the top of their respective “to read” piles in the past twelve months…but they all come with the S&Co. stamp of approval.There's something for everyone here, from a rock star's autobiography, to a novel about a 19th century translator's revolt, to a classic of modern science fiction that spans something like a billion earth years. Find the full list below.Sign up to our newsletter: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/subscriptionsDancing in Odessa, Ilya Kaminsky: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/6316982/kaminsky-ilya-dancing-in-odessaCleopatra and Frankenstein, Coco Mellors: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/6416524/mellors-coco-cleopatra-and-frankensteinHarlem Shuffle, Colson Whitehead: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/6461812/whitehead-colson-harlem-shuffleThe Sweetness of Water, Nathan Harris: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/6433167/harris-nathan-the-sweetness-of-waterFrom a Low and Quiet Sea, Donal Ryan: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/6871035/ryan-donal-from-a-low-and-quiet-seaTrespasses by Louise Kennedy: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/6192095/louise-kennedy-kennedy-trespassesCormac McCarthy, The Passenger and Stella Maris: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/5474563/mccarthy-cormac-the-passengerOpen Water, Caleb Azumah Nelson: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/6294505/nelson-caleb-azumah-open-waterBabel Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution, R. F. Kuang: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/6031122/kuang-r-f-babelThe Hummingbird, Sandro Veronesi: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/6191021/veronesi-sandro-the-hummingbirdThe Queens of Sarmiento Park, Camila Sosa Villada: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/6111567/villada-camila-sosa-the-queens-of-sarmiento-parkThe Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/5227917/liu-cixin-the-three-body-problemA Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/6951005/saunders-george-a-swim-in-a-pond-in-the-rainAgatha Christie, Lucy Worsley: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/6007132/worsley-lucy-agatha-christieThe Storyteller, Dave Grohl: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/6113617/grohl-dave-the-storytellerThe Naked Don't Fear the Water, Matthieu Aikins: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/6088623/aikins-matthieu-the-naked-don-t-fear-the-waterThe Climate Book, Greta Thunberg: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/7314067/thunberg-greta-the-climate-bookFight Night, Miriam Toews: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/5994736/toews-miriam-fight-night*Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Buy a signed copy of his novel Feeding Time here: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/7209940/biles-adam-feeding-timeListen to Alex Freiman's Play It Gentle here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1 Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Get ready for an extra-magical grab bag episode—partly because we're recording in person! Its stars: a question we loved so much, our conflicted boots, gossiping about toddlers, an impassioned pitch for Farmer's Fridge, setting calendar alerts for topics of conversation, and the most revelatory jeans that have ever crossed our fitting-room doors.   Movie we're itching to see: Women Talking (thanks for the pitch, Fran.) based on this Miriam Toews book.   The winter boots we have mixed feelings about…but wear the crap out of: Claire's No.6 clog ones (covered by The New Yorker *and* The New York Times) and Erica's Doc Marten zip chelsea style.   Should you find yourself in an airport: Eat Farmer's Fridge! Try the baja bowl, green goddess salad, or pineapple coconut chia pudding.   Dr. Harvey Karp's Happiest Toddler on the Block, source of toddler gossip advice.   Anne Helen Petersen on calendar culture.   For some WOW-inducing jeans, check out Ganni's Figni style (and perhaps watch the vid of how they work?). For more on statement flies, see Tibi's double-waisted Sam jean and this Vogue story. Another good denim source: Totême.   Have thoughts about jeans/winter boots/airport food? Let us know 833-632-5463, podcast@athingortwohq.com, or @athingortwohq—or join our Geneva! And try out a Secret Menu membership for a whole lot more recommendations. This episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct, or indirect financial interest in products, or services referred to in this episode.     Zip over to Noihsaf Bazaar to buy, sell, and even make new friends. Get that good ecomm experience with Shopify. Get a free 14-day trial with our link. Count on LifeMD to get the telehealthcare you need, when you need it. YAY.   Produced by Dear Media

Among the many huge titles announced for the Toronto Film Festival last week was Women Talking, Sarah Polley's adaptation of the 2018 novel. To kick off our August book club series we discuss the novel and what the adaptation might look like, in addition to taking an even closer look at the fall festival lineups. Sign up to receive texts from us at Subtext. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices