Podcast appearances and mentions of Sarah M Broom

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for September 24, 2023 is: lionize • LYE-uh-nyze • verb To lionize someone is to treat them as a person of great interest or importance. // While her name was not attached to her books in her lifetime (she published anonymously), Jane Austen continues two centuries hence to be lionized as one of the English language's greatest novelists. See the entry > Examples: “What I love about this memoir, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2019, is its incredible sense of place. [Sarah M.] Broom's story is submerged in one of the most lionized—and complex—cities in America: New Orleans. More specifically, she focuses on New Orleans East and the yellow shotgun house that the author's steadfast mother, Ivory Mae, bought in 1961, and where Broom grew up as the youngest of 12 siblings.” — Isaac Fitzgerald, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2022 Did you know? Across time and across cultures—as evidenced from Chauvet-Pont d'Arc's paintings to The Lion King—lions have captured people's imaginations. Though the big cats themselves are fascinatingly complex, it's perhaps no surprise that humans have long projected qualities of bravery and regality upon the proverbial “king of the beasts.” It is precisely those and similar admirable qualities that led, in the 18th century, to lion being used for a person who is similarly well-regarded, especially after a long and distinguished career in a particular field, as in “lion of the Senate,” or “literary lion.” This sense of lion imbues the verb lionize, which first appeared in English in the early 19th century to apply to acts of treating someone as, perhaps, deserving of roaring applause.

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"…I read every day. Reading feels like part of my identity…[it] feels essential as a writer to be reading always.” Imani Perry is the acclaimed author of Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry and Breathe: A Letter to My Sons among other books; her latest, South to America, is an extraordinary blend of personal memoir and American history, and she joins us on the show to talk about her travels around the American South, the people she spoke with and the friendships she made, her own mother's story, and the writers she holds close, including Kiese Laymon, Jesmyn Ward, Sarah M. Broom, and Richard Wright. Featured Books: South to America by Imani Perry, The Yellow House by Sarah Broome, and Native Son by Richard Wright. Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer and engineered by Harry Liang. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional bonus episodes on Saturdays).

Happy National Book Month! This episode we feature previous National Book Award winners. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer (2013) vs The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom (2019).

Today, Sara and Chelsey gush about a new favorite novel-in-short-stories: The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor. We focus on Naylor's memorable prose and mastery of structure, avoiding spoilers so you can listen before reading. Plus, as always, we offer six contemporary pairings that capture similar themes, featuring short story collections and well-crafted memoirs. For more bonus episodes, nerdy classes, and extra book talk,  join our Classics Club: patreon.com/novelpairings.com. Connect with us  on Instagram or Twitter. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get updates and behind-the-scenes info. Get two audiobooks for the price of one from Libro.fm. Use our Libro.fm affiliate code NOVELPAIRINGS and support independent bookstores.   Skip to the pairings: [34:43]   Books mentioned: Thank you for supporting the show by shopping our affiliate links!  The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor (Amazon) The Men of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor (Amazon) Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (Amazon) Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty (Amazon)   Chelsey The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom (Amazon) The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw (Amazon) Seven Days in June by Tia Williams (Amazon) Sara Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor  (Amazon) Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz (Amazon) Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey (Amazon)   Picks of the week: Chelsey: The Women of Brewster Place Reissue Review (NPR) Sara: The Promise podcast

In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant--the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah's father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number twelve children. But after Simon died, six months after Sarah's birth, the Yellow House would become Ivory Mae's thirteenth and most unruly child. A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom's The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina. The Yellow House expands the map of New Orleans to include the stories of its lesser known natives, guided deftly by one of its native daughters, to demonstrate how enduring drives of clan, pride, and familial love resist and defy erasure. Located in the gap between the "Big Easy" of tourist guides and the New Orleans in which Broom was raised, The Yellow House is a brilliant memoir of place, class, race, the seeping rot of inequality, and the internalized shame that often follows. It is a transformative, deeply moving story from an unparalleled new voice of startling clarity, authority, and power --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pbliving/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pbliving/support

In this bonus second episode in the “Books and Choose” series, Kati and Kelsey talk about the books they read from their show-built TBRs! They also choose the books they will read for the next “Books and Choose” episode.   FOLLOW US: Kati - @shelfmadewoman on Instagram The Podcast - @booksandboobspod on Instagram and @books_boobspod on Twitter   TBR BOOKS WE READ: Kati: “And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie “Chess: A Novella” by Stefan Zweig  Kelsey: “The Geek Feminist Revolution” by Kameron Hurley “The Argonauts” by Maggie Nelson BOOKS WE CHOSE: Kati: "The Yellow House" by Sarah M. Broom "The Likeness" by Tana French Kelsey: "Lean Out" by Marissa Orr "An Unkindness of Ghosts" by Rivers Solomon

Learn about the secret trial and conviction of Cardinal George Pell with this Allen & Unwin read. Fallen is a study of innocence, power, justice and truth. Indeed it is a read for those interested in getting a firsthand account of arguably one of the world's biggest trials in recent history. ⇨ YOU WILL LEARN: * What it was like to be 'front row' through the trial * How Cardinal Pell and the Catholic Church responded to the charges * What you can learn from the Walkley winner's writing * Channel Morris-Marr's determination to write a fascinating life story Please note: If you or someone you know is impacted by sexual assault, domestic or family violence contact emergency services. If you are affected by this story and want to seek assistance, see: 1800RESPECT https://www.1800respect.org.au/, Kids Help Line http://kidshelpline.com.au/, Lifeline https://www.lifeline.org.au/, Beyondblue https://www.beyondblue.org.au/ ⇨ FULL ARTICLE Click to read: https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com/lucie-morris-marr/ ⇨ VIDEO PODCAST Click to watch: https://youtu.be/MQzBQ2J11VM ⇨ FREE GIFT Structure Success video training: Four steps to plan your life-story book chapters - FREE training, click to sign up: https://wp.me/P8NwjM-3o ⇨ YOUR SAY Are you going to read Fallen? Or want to suggest a book to read? Leave me a comment below or here https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com/contact/ ⇨ RELATED LINKS Best life stories of 2020: Award-winning books to read this holiday season https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com/best-life-stories-of-2020/ Book review: New York Times Best Seller The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com/sarah-m-broom/ Everything you need to know about making characters sparkle in your memoir https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com/writing-characters/ Dialogue like a pro: See how easily you can use speech marks and quotes in writing https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com/dialogue/ Tell the truth: The surefire way to out skeletons in the family closet https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com/tell-the-truth/ ♡ Thanks for listening - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE if you are new and SHARE THE SHOW if you found it helpful! ⇨ ABOUT ME Hi and welcome! My name is Nicola and I help you learn how to write and self-publish life stories for family and friends so that unique memories live on. For decades I've told thousands of people's stories as a print journalist and would love to hear yours! ⇨ WEBSITE https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com ⇨ FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/foreveryoungautobiographies ⇨ YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6nfZWWTeRpBWMcxluLDa-w

Nadeszła pora podsumowań i my też chcemy się z Wami podzielić, jak wyglądał u nas rok 2020 z czytelniczego punktu widzenia. Zamiast jednak przedstawiać Wam najlepsze książki zeszłego roku, zastanawiamy się, po jakie gatunki sięgałyśmy najczęściej, przygotowałyśmy sobie nawet wykresy w Excelu, a wszystko po to, by dowiedzieć się, u kogo królowały biografie i wspomnienia, która z nas podróżowała literacko, co w literaturze zaczęło nas interesować i czyje perspektywy wydawały nam się najciekawsze. Jest też mowa o najgorszych książkach, a to nie zdarza się często, bo trochę szkoda nam już czasu na słabe lektury. Kolejna taka okazja, by ponarzekać na to, co złe, trafi się pewnie dopiero znów za rok, więc tym bardziej zapraszamy do słuchania! Książki, które wspominamy w podkaście, to: Jenny Nordberg, „Chłopczyce z Kabulu”, tłum. Justyn Hunia, wydawnictwo Czarne; Kerry Danes, „Oko w oko ze złem”, tłum. Agnieszka Walulik, wydawnictwo Otwarte; Amanda Curtin, „The Sinkings”, UWA Publishing; Zbigniew Rokita, „Kajś”, wydawnictwo Czarne; Maria Stiepanowa, „Pamięci pamięci” tłum. Agnieszka Sowińska, wydawnictwo Prószyński i S-ka; Durga Chew-Bose, „Too much and not in the mood”, Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Lola Olufemi, „Feminism, Interrupted”, Pluto Books; Sarah M. Broom, „Żółty dom”, tłum. Łukasz Błaszczyk Wydawnictwo Agora Zachęcamy do odwiedzin na naszym profilu na Instagramie: https://www.instagram.com/juz_tlumacze i na Facebooku https://www.facebook.com/juz.tlumacze Intro: http://bit.ly/jennush

Kolejny odcinek z cyklu "Archiwum Radia Książki", tym razem z października 2020 r. i tym razem wyjątkowo Michał Nogaś jest gościem, a nie gospodarzem podcastu. Powód do spotkania jest wyjątkowy - nasz redakcyjny kolega opublikował właśnie w Wydawnictwie Agora imponujący tom (ponad 650 stron) rozmów z pisarzami zatytułowany "Z niejednej półki. Wywiady". Są wśród nich zarówno zdobywcy Nobla, nagrody Nike, Pulitzera, National Book Award i Bookera: Mario Vargas Llosa, Margaret Atwood, Olga Tokarczuk, Annie Proulx, Swiatłana Aleksijewicz, Dorota Masłowska czy Wiesław Myśliwski, jak i pisarze, których polscy czytelnicy dopiero poznają, jak Brazylijczycy Bernardo Kucinski i Michel Laub czy Amerykanka Sarah M. Broom. Na podcast zaprasza Jędrzej Słodkowski. Więcej odcinków na https://wyborcza.pl/podcast

Stephen Henderson talks with Sarah M. Broom, author of The Yellow House, and discusses the roles of ritual and home for African Americans as told in her New York Times best-selling book which won the 2019 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

A quick and easy review of the Grove Press memoir set in New Orleans East. The Yellow House is possibly like nothing you have read before. It will show you how to write with care and love about the people and places of your heart. ⇨ YOU WILL LEARN: * A fresh view of New Orleans through the centuries * How the National Book Awards winner's family survived Hurricane Katrina * Tips and ideas from this bestseller to apply to our writing * Follow Broom's lead and take the first step towards writing your own family stories. ⇨ FULL ARTICLE Click to read: https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com/sarah-m-broom/ ⇨ VIDEO PODCAST Click to watch: https://youtu.be/5uGLr-lUBxI ⇨ BLACK FRIDAY 2020 DEAL ** LAST DAYS!! ** Your Family Stories System 50% off plus free 30-minute coaching call available here https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com/deal/ ⇨ FREE GIFT Your Family Stories System: Easily capture your loved ones' memories for future generations - FREE sections, click to sign up: https://wp.me/P8NwjM-b5 ⇨ YOUR SAY What are you reading at the moment? Have you got a great life-story book to share? Leave me a comment below or here https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com/contact/ ⇨ RELATED LINKS Best books of 2019: Must-read books about life stories to enjoy this summer https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com/must-read-2019/ Book review: Pulitzer Prize winner The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com/the-new-negro/ Writing time: How to schedule time for writing https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com/writing-schedule/ Story outline: How to make an outline and have topics to write about https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com/story-outline/ Writing tips: The ultimate guide of life-story tips for new writers https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com/writing-tips/ ♡ Thanks for listening - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE if you are new and SHARE THE SHOW if you found it helpful! Happy writing! ⇨ ABOUT ME Hi and welcome! My name is Nicola and I help you learn how to write and self-publish life stories for family and friends so that unique memories live on. For decades I've told thousands of people's stories as a print journalist and would love to hear yours! ⇨ WEBSITE https://www.foreveryoungautobiographies.com ⇨ FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/foreveryoungautobiographies ⇨ YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6nfZWWTeRpBWMcxluLDa-w

In 1961, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the space race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant—the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah’s father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number twelve children. But after Simon died, six months after Sarah’s birth, the Yellow House would become Ivory Mae’s thirteenth and most unruly child. A book of great ambition, Broom’s “The Yellow House” tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother’s struggle against a house’s entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina. You can watch the conversation between MPR News host Kerri Miller and Broom here. Or listen to the using the audio player above. Watch the video here. https://vimeo.com/466040319/1b72cccfa9 Talking Volumes 2020 season guide Talking Volumes A conversation with Claudia Rankine Talking Volumes A conversation with Helen Macdonald Subscribe to the MPR News with Kerri Miller podcast on: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or RSS

This podcast was recorded as part of the 2020 SupChina Women’s Conference on September 9, 2020. Susan Shirk, chair and research professor of the 21st Century China Center at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at University of California, San Diego, is on Sinica this week. Jeremy, Kaiser, and Susan take a broad look at the bilateral relationship as the U.S. inches toward a presidential election in November.Recommendations:Jeremy: I’m doomsday prepping for the end of democracy by Farhad Manjoo, and We don’t know how to warn you any harder. America is dying., by Umair Haque.Susan: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson and The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom. Kaiser: Is Russian meddling as dangerous as we think?, by Joshua Yaffa and How my mother and I became Chinese propaganda by Jiayang Fan.

In early April, we were both struggling to focus and looking for an escape from a shut-down world, so we turned to the National Book Foundation's Lisa Lucas and author and Books Are Magic owner Emma Straub for some reading recs. Now, exactly 99 days later, Lisa is back, this time with podcast regular and Riverhead Books publisher Jynne Dilling Martin to restock our shelves with recommendations. There's something for everyone this episode, whether you're looking for a graphic novel to keep your short attention span in check, a historical trilogy set in the court of Henry V (complete with its own plague), a sci-fi battle royale set in New York City, or a New York Times bestseller all your friends are probably reading right now. A reminder to order any of the books that make it on your must-read list from your local bookseller or one of these Black bookstores across the U.S.—or, from Bookshop.org, which gives money from sales for independent bookstores. Here's a full list of what we talked about: The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom Weather by Jenny Offill Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins Severance by Ling Ma What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez The Friend by Sigrid Nunez Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett The Mothers by Brit Bennett 12 Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis Man V. Nature by Diane Cook The New Wilderness by Diane Cook The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans All products featured on Condé Nast Traveler are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Follow Lisa: @LikaLuka Follow Jynne: @Jynnnne Follow Lale: @LaleHannah Follow Meredith: @Ohheytheremere Follow Women Who Travel: @WomenWhoTravel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How do we fight an enemy like COVID-19 without the power of physical connection - the very force that has bolstered us through tough times in the past? That is the question we are unpacking in this week's episode, prompted by our very own host, Tonya Mosley. She talks with two friends from her hometown Detroit about the heartache of being away from home during the pandemic. And, author Sarah M. Broom joins as a Wise One to share her experience with displacement, healing, and distance. Episode transcript here: shorturl.at/fguHZ

How do we fight an enemy like COVID-19 without the power of physical connection - the very force that has bolstered us through tough times in the past? That is the question we are unpacking in this week's episode, prompted by our very own host, Tonya Mosley. She talks with two friends from her hometown Detroit about the heartache of being away from home during the pandemic. And, author Sarah M. Broom joins as a Wise One to share her experience with displacement, healing, and distance. Episode transcript here: shorturl.at/fguHZ

How do we fight an enemy like COVID-19 without the power of physical connection - the very force that has bolstered us through tough times in the past? That is the question we are unpacking in this week's episode, prompted by our very own host, Tonya Mosley. She talks with two friends from her hometown Detroit about the heartache of being away from home during the pandemic. And, author Sarah M. Broom joins as a Wise One to share her experience with displacement, healing, and distance. Episode transcript here: shorturl.at/fguHZ

How do we fight an enemy like COVID-19 without the power of physical connection - the very force that has bolstered us through tough times in the past? That is the question we are unpacking in this week's episode, prompted by our very own host, Tonya Mosley. She talks with two friends from her hometown Detroit about the heartache of being away from home during the pandemic. And, author Sarah M. Broom joins as a Wise One to share her experience with displacement, healing, and distance. Episode transcript here: shorturl.at/fguHZ

How do we fight an enemy like COVID-19 without the power of physical connection - the very force that has bolstered us through tough times in the past? That is the question we are unpacking in this week's episode, prompted by our very own host, Tonya Mosley. She talks with two friends from her hometown Detroit about the heartache of being away from home during the pandemic. And, author Sarah M. Broom joins as a Wise One to share her experience with displacement, healing, and distance. Episode transcript here: shorturl.at/fguHZ

Bahni Turpin is an incredible narrator, honored as a Golden Voice by AudioFile Magazine in 2019. That same year, her narration of CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE, Tomi Adeyemi’s brilliant fantasy, won Audiobook of the Year. The previous year she took home the Best Female Narrator award for Angie Thomas’s powerful THE HATE U GIVE. Bahni is skilled at drawing out all of the emotion in the stories she narrates and conveying the intensity of the action or drama to listeners. Bahni has earned a spot on AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks list for many fabulous audiobooks, including children’s and teen titles, fiction, biographies, and memoirs. On today’s episode, AudioFile’s Emily Connelly and host Jo Reed discuss Bahni Turpin’s narration of THE YELLOW HOUSE, Sarah M. Broom’s National Book Award-winning memoir. Broom has woven her family’s story into the broader story of New Orleans East, and Bahni narrates the vivid prose with a flawless performance. Listeners explore the structural inequality and racism that impacted Broom’s family along with so many others in the city. Bahni performs the audiobook with pitch-perfect accents for each of Broom’s relatives and gives the audiobook the feeling of an oral history, with voices chiming in to tell their stories. Published by Audible, Inc. Find more audiobook recommendations at audiofilemagazine.com Support for Behind the Mic comes from Oasis Audio, publisher of the complete Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorized Library and the all-new Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Suri's in the studio this week, chatting to Rachel and Tess about a memoir that's an absolute must-read. The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom narrates stories from over 100 years in the same house, with a huge touch on the influence of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. An important read.

On today’s show, I’m going to report on what I did during my most recent solo business retreat and my lessons learned. Some of you already know I love taking a solo business retreat about once a quarter—or at minimum, twice a year. A solo business retreat is just you, away from your regular workspace—even in that means just heading to another room in your home—and taking a half day, entire day or even two days to step back. It’s a time to think big and to work ON your business, not just IN your business. In episode 3, I talk about how to host your own solo business retreat—what you need, where you can go to do it, what to think about. Two episodes ago, episode 40, I gave tips and hopefully some inspiration for things that would work well during a solo business retreat—how you could evaluate the past year of your business and then analyze what you needed to do differently this year. I also mentioned in that episode that I was going to host my first solo business retreat outside my city. It was in Chicago last week, and it was amazing.   I started by making a list of all my clients and how much I made from each one of them last year. Then, I marked which ones were likely one-offs because they were one-time projects from the client’s perspective and which ones were one-offs because I didn’t want to work with that client anymore. The good news is that only two were ones I didn’t want to work with anymore—in one case, it was a one-off project, and in the other I think the client felt the same way I did. So, I didn’t have to fire any clients! My calculations also confirmed what I already knew from past years: My primary anchor client is about 48% of my net income each year. That’s a lot. That security also comes with cautions: What if that client suddenly lets me go or kills our project? The challenge is that because the workload for this client is like a part-time job, I can’t take on a lot of other big anchor clients. So, I’ve tried to prepare myself for losing this client, though I hope that never happens. First, it helps just that I’m aware of it. Knowing that relying on one client for 48% of your income is a gamble is the first step. You don’t want to be blindsided if the client goes away. I’ve also been working to build up my savings to provide a cushion, and I continue to market and stay in touch with past clients. It’s important to always be marketing. It can take months or even years in some cases to get a project from a potential client. Waiting until you need the work will not likely pay off—plus, it can make you desperate. You might take on low-paying clients or clients who don’t treat you well. After calculating where my money came from last year, I made a short list of the clients I really loved who I wanted to work with more. Some of these were newer clients that have started off great, and I want to keep that momentum going. Others are longer-time clients that I need to reach out to more. I also had one client where my editor left last year. So, I quickly looked up the new person’s contact information so I could email them a letter of introduction. The next part of my business retreat was to make a list of my successes, failures and challenges from last year. My successes included two regular clients that I worked with substantially more last year. Other successes were two new regular clients and my podcast launch. Failures included a client who was really difficult to work with. Another was not keeping up with my business receipts in a timely manner. On the list of challenges I added batching, the idea of doing like work all at once and saving time from switching tasks. I’m still working on doing a better job of batching. Another challenge was taking on projects that are not in my sweet spot. I should have said no. In fact, I’ve dubbed 2020 as the year of saying no, particularly saying “no” to volunteering so much in my industry. I love helping other freelancers build their businesses—that’s why I do this podcast—and I also love helping out in my industries. But I need to be careful what I say “yes” to because it can eat into the time I should be focused on paid work or my personal life. It often leads to me feeling overwhelmed and stressed. So, I’m being really picky about this year. One thing that has been harder to say “no” to are coffee dates or email requests. I have had some well-intended friends or acquaintances email me and connect me with a connection of theirs. Usually they say something like “my friend wants to become a freelancer. Can you give her some tips?” First, I would prefer the person I know to ask me first, not assume or pass of the person off to me. Second, those types of questions are vague and broad. And third, I don’t have time to help every stranger who wants a personal list of what they should do to become successful. So, I’m still figuring out how best to say “no” to those requests without feeling rude. My retreat wrapped up with me making a list of the healthy work habits I want to implement this year. Then, I made a list of the systems I could create to make those happen. I talk about habits and how you need a system to make them actually stick in last week’s episode, episode 41. At the end of my retreat, I had dinner with my friend and fellow writer Megy Karydes. Megy was a guest on episode 10, and she reminded me how regimented she is in sticking with her systems each day. Megy knows—to the penny—how much she needs to earn each DAY. And, she keeps diligent track of it. I was inspired to try to do better tracking of my income goals. I will likely break down my monthly goals into weekly goals to track. I hope to tie this into time tracking—which Megy is also quite diligent about—because when I do time tracking it helps me stay on task and be more efficient. Plus, I gather important data about how long certain types of projects take so that I know how to charge for them. Biz Bite: Create an end-of-the-day routine. The Bookshelf: “The Yellow House” by Sarah M. Broom   Resources: Episode #3 of Deliberate Freelancer: Host a Solo Business Retreat Episode #40 of Deliberate Freelancer: Reflect, Analyze and Plan Now for the New Year Episode #41 of Deliberate Freelancer: How to Create and Stick to Habits—the Backbone of Your Life and Business Episode #19 of Deliberate Freelancer: Visualize Your Perfect Work Day—Then Create It Episode #10 of Deliberate Freelancer: Think Like a Marketer to Grow Your Business, with Megy Karydes

Kendra talks to Jami Attenberg about her latest novel, All This Could Be Yours, which is out now from HMH. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! Books Mentioned All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg Sarah Recommends We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton Author: Jami Attenberg: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Buy the Book CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com.  SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Being on vacation and flying to get to vacation—whether you're going to laze on the beach for days or zip around Southeast Asia on the back of a moped—are some of the only long, interrupted times we have these days to read. So, as you prep for your OOO for 2020, we tapped Jynne Dilling Martin, Riverhead Books' associate publisher, and Lisa Lucas, executive director of the National Book Foundation, to give you a rundown of the best books they read in 2019 for a little literary packing list info. Find a full transcript of the episode and links to all of the books we mentioned here: https://www.cntraveler.com/story/the-best-books-we-read-last-year-women-who-travel-podcast While many other books were discussed, here are the 11 favorites we suggested in this episode: Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom Severance by Ling Ma The Library Book by Susan Orlean Normal People by Sally Rooney Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi All products featured on Condé Nast Traveler are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode Ninety One Show Notes CW = Chris Wolak EF = Emily FinePurchase Book Cougars Swag on Zazzle! We are an affiliate of Bank Square Books and Savoy Bookstore & Café. Please purchase books from them and support us at the same time. Click HERE to start shopping.If you would like to help financially support the Book Cougars, please consider becoming a Patreon member. You can DONATE HERE. If you would prefer to donate directly to us, please email bookcougars@gmail.com for instructions.Join our Goodreads Group! We have a BookTube Channel – please check it out here, and be sure to subscribe! Please subscribe to our email newsletter here.– 12th Readalong – Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator) The Goodreads discussion thread can be found HERE. Our conversation about the book will air on February 18th.– Currently Reading –The Hollows (Kinship #2) – Jess Montgomery (EF)Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder – Caroline Fraser (CW)The Yellow House – Sarah M. Broom (EF) Farmer Boy – Laura Ingalls Wilder (CW)– Just Read –Thin Ice: A Mystery – Paige Shelton (CW)The Great Believers – Rebecca Makkai (EF)The Sculptor’s Funeral – Willa Cather (CW) part of the Willa Cather Short Story ProjectThe Great Santini – Pat Conroy (EF)Sourdough – Robin Sloan (EF)– Biblio Adventures –Emily took a trip to Portland, Maine and visited Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shops and Longfellow BooksAunt Ellen discovered the Common Books Bookcart where she bought us a copy of Margaret Atwood’s Selected Poems which was published in 1976. You can follow the cart and purchase books by going to Brittany’s Instagram account.– Upcoming Jaunts –Chris will attend an adaptation of Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory at the Theatre Artists Workshop in Norwalk, CT– Upcoming Reads –How Not to Die Alone – Richard Roper (EF)Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition – Buddy Levy (CW)The Night Watchman – Louise Erdrich (EF) release date March 3, 2020Darkness for Light – Emma Viskic release date June 9, 2020– Also Mentioned –Nobel Prize in LiteraturePeter HandkeCanada – Richard FordHarper LeeJacqueline WoodsonThe Booker PrizesMargaret AtwoodBernardine EvaristoShamus Award Road to Perdition – Max Allen CollinsFlights – Olga TokarczukThe Widows (Kinship #1) – Jess MontgomeryWifey – Judy BlumeNational Book AwardsPatricia CornwellYouth and the Bright Medusa – Willa CatherSouth of Broad – Pat ConroyMr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel – Robin SloanPrint: A Bookstore in Portland, MaineOsprey Island – Thisby NiessenLouise PennyIn Cold Blood – Truman CapoteHarriet Beecher Stowe HouseEvery Man Dies Alone – Hans FalladaResurrection Bay and And Fire Came Down – Emma ViskicBook DepositoryHarry PotterA Series of Unfortunate EventsThe Book Review PodcastMotherless Brooklyn – Jonathan Lethem

This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss Dapper Dan, Beeline, Good Talk, and more great nonfiction books from 2019. This episode was sponsored the St. John's College, Ritual, and With a Little Help From My Friends.  Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream by Carson Vaughn Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty and Dianné Ruz | Burnout: The Secrets To Unlocking The Stress Cycle by Emily and Amelia Nagoski Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir by Daniel R. Day Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe Beeline: What Spelling Bees Reveal About Generation Z' New Path to Success by Shalini Shankar Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco Out Of The Shadows: A Memoir by Timea Nagy and Shannon Moroney Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir by T Kira Madden Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb Solitary by Albert Woodfox Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married by Abby Ellis What we're reading: Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legacy of Orisha) by Tomi Adeyemi More books out this week: The Glittering Hour by Iona Grey  The Road to Delano by John DeSimone A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy Popkin  The Wonderful by Saskia Sarginson The Dead Girls Club: A Novel by Damien Angelica Walters  Regretting You by Colleen Hoover  The Story of a Goat by Perumal Murugan, N Kalyan Raman (translator) The Hills Reply by Tarjei Vesaas, Elizabeth Rokkan (translator) Africaville by Jeffrey Colvin The Wicked Redhead: A Wicked City Novel by Beatriz Williams  All That's Bright and Gone: A Novel by Eliza Nellums  Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy Levy Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke, Christiane Marks (translator) Gatekeeper: Poems by Patrick Johnson The German House by Annette Hess, Elisabeth Lauffer (translator) A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed by Jason Brown  

To kick off Reading Women Award season, our co-hosts Sachi Argabright, Jaclyn Masters, and Sumaiyya Naseem share their Honorable Mentions for 2019! Check out our Patreon page to learn more about our book club and other Patreon-exclusive goodies. Follow along over on Instagram, join the discussion in our Goodreads group, and be sure to subscribe to our newsletter for more new books and extra book reviews! The sponsor of this episode of Reading Women is the Hingston and Olsen short story advent calendar. Order your copy today, from shortstoryadventcalendar.com, and enter the promo code READINGWOMEN at checkout to get 10% off your purchase. Some links are affiliate links. Find more details here. Things Mentioned The Nobel Prize in Award Booker Prize Winners Books Mentioned This Time Will Be Different by Misa Sugiura (HarperTeen) The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose (Algonquin) To Keep the Sun Alive by Rabeah Ghaffari (Catapult) Know My Name by Chanel Miller (Viking) The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom (Grove Press) Our Women On the Ground: Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World edited by Zahra Hankir (Penguin) CONTACT Questions? Comments? Email us hello@readingwomenpodcast.com.  SOCIAL MEDIA Reading Women Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Music by Isaac Greene Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jami Attenberg is in the midst of starting of her book tour when she drops into The Damn Library to discuss her new novel, All This Could Be Yours. We talk about New Orleans, and time, and being a writer online, and how it feels to be on her seventh book, and running a writing prompt in the summer, amongst other things. She brings us Sarah M. Broom's The Yellow House and we talk about New Orleans in Broom's context and the project of recent history. It's all happening! Plus an invitation at the end for NYC-local listeners. Stay tuned! contribute! https://patreon.com/smdb for drink recipes, book lists, and more, visit: somanydamnbooks.com music: Disaster Magic (https://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic)  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tatiana Schlossberg is a journalist writing about climate change and the environment. She previously reported on those subjects for the Science and Climate sections of the New York Times, where she also worked on the Metro desk. Her work has also appeared in the Atlantic, Bloomberg View, the Record (Bergen County), and the Vineyard Gazette. She lives in New York. This episode was recorded live at RJ Julia in Madison, CT. Also, Dan Sheehan of Bookmarks stops by to discuss the best reviewed books this month, including: Quichotte by Salman Rushdie Ducks, Newburyport byLucyEllman Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom Fentanyl, Inc. by Ben Westhoff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sarah M. Broom is the guest. Her debut memoir, The Yellow House, is available now from Grove Press. Broom began her writing career as a newspaper journalist working in Rhode Island, Dallas, New Orleans and Hong Kong (for TIME Asia). She also worked as an editor at O, The Oprah Magazine for several years. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, O, The Oprah Magazine and elsewhere. In 2016, she received the prestigious Whiting Award for Creative Nonfiction. Broom has an undergraduate degree in anthropology and mass communications from the University of North Texas and a Master’s degree in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.  A native New Orleanian, she is the youngest of twelve children, and now makes her home in New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jim Sciutto, author of "The Shadow War", and Steve Hall, former Head of CIA Russia Operations, join Christiane Amanpour to discuss U.S. national security, Russia and the recent resignation of U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton. Film-makers Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts join Christiane on set in London to talk about their new documentary "For Sama", which provides a first-hand look at the horror and humanity of life in Aleppo, Syria. Our Walter Isaacson is joined by author Sarah M. Broom, whose latest memoir "The Yellow House" recalls the devastation caused by 2005 Hurricane Katrina, and the struggle to rebuild.

New Orleans-born authors Maurice Carlos Ruffin and Sarah M. Broom discuss Broom's new book THE YELLOW HOUSE. Originally aired on August 29th 2019.

This week Alice and Kim talk about Barack Obama’s summer nonfiction picks, the world’s deadliest predator, and true stories inside cults and places with cult-like thinking. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Skin Deep by Gavin Evans, published by Oneworld Publications and Chase Darkness with Meby Billy Jensen. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. FOLLOW UP Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation by Eli Clare NONFICTION IN THE NEWS Barack Obama’s summer reading list Publisher’s Weekly: Workman to Publish AOC Bio NEW BOOKS Breaking the Ocean: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Reconciliation by Annahid Dashtgard The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Timothy C. Winegard CULTS! Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the People’s Temple by Jeff Guinn Without You, There is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami READING NOW Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslow Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemptionby Laura Hillenbrand

This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss gods with a little g, The Memory Police, The Yellow House, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Flatiron Books, publishers of Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh, and Ritual. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: gods with a little g by Tupelo Hassman  The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa and Stephen Snyder   The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom   Start Here by Trish Doller Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel by Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)  The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me by Keah Brown Play with Fire (A Breen and Tozer Mystery) by William Shaw  The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee What we're reading: Don't Date Rosa Santos by Nina Moreno Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, and Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong The Last Stone by Mark Bowden More books out this week: Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls by Carrie Goldberg  Below the Line: A Charlie Waldo Novel by Howard Michael Gould  An American Sunrise: Poems by Joy Harjo  The Mage-Fire War (Saga of Recluce) by L. E. Modesitt Jr. The Perfect Son by Lauren North The Blessing: A Memoir by Gregory Orr We Are the Ghosts by Vicky Skinner  The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall Cherry on Top: Flirty, Forty-Something, and Funny as F**k by Bobbie Brown and Caroline Ryder The Catholic School: A Novel by Edoardo Albinati, Antony Shugaar (translator) The Swallows: A Novel by Lisa Lutz  Cooking with Fernet Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson  Knock Wood: A Memoir in Essays by Jennifer Militello The Oysterville Sewing Circle by Susan Wiggs  The Hidden Things by Jamie Mason  The Heart of the Circle by Keren Landsman  Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive Outside the Lines by Jonathan Mooney  When the Plums Are Ripe by Patrice Nganang, Amy B. Reid (translator) Rule of Capture by Christopher Brown   Have You Eaten Grandma?: Or, the Life-Saving Importance of Correct Punctuation, Grammar, and Good English by Gyles Brandreth  Set the Controls for the Heart of Sharon Tate by Gary Lippman The Retreat by Sherri Smith   Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle 21 | 19: Contemporary Poets in the Nineteenth-Century Archive by Alexandra Manglis, Kristen Case, et al. Socialist Realism (Emily Books) by Trisha Low Miami Midnight (Pete Fernandez) by Alex Segura A Killer Edition (A Booktown Mystery) by Lorna Barrett  The Doll Factory: A Novel by Elizabeth Macneal   Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh (Halfway through this, but so far, so good.) First You Write a Sentence: The Elements of Reading, Writing . . . and Life by Joe Moran A Keeper by Graham Norton Campusland by Scott Johnston  The Plateau by Maggie Paxson I Heart Oklahoma! by Roy Scranton  Hard Mouth by Amanda Goldblatt   The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hossain   Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention by Donna Freitas Inland by Téa Obreht   Black Light: Stories by Kimberly King Parsons  The Bells of Old Tokyo: Meditations on Time and a City by Anna Sherman The Winemaker's Wife by Kristin Harmel  Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center  Black Card by Chris L. Terry   Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh (I haven't read all of this, but I like what I've read so far!) The Accidentals by Minrose Gwin Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders by Billy Jensen   White Noise by Suzan-Lori Parks  The Bitterroots by C.J. Box  Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Wind (New York Review Books Classics) by Lyall Watson  Dahlia Black by Keith Thomas How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi   Devotion by Madeline Stevens Blood Truth (4) (Black Dagger Legacy) by J.R. Ward  Science Comics: Cats: Nature and Nurture by Andy Hirsch  

Wesley Morris, Parul Sehgal and Dwight Garner talk about Morrison’s career, and Sarah M. Broom talks about her debut memoir, “The Yellow House.”