Chapter 21: Laurie Makes Mischief and Jo Makes Peace with Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Episode 21 December 30, 2022 00:40:25
Chapter 21: Laurie Makes Mischief and Jo Makes Peace with Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Jo's Boys: A Little Women Podcast
Chapter 21: Laurie Makes Mischief and Jo Makes Peace with Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Dec 30 2022 | 00:40:25

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Show Notes

This week, we're joined by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich. Alex is the author of the book slash cultural phenomenon The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, which won several awards, including the Lambda Literary Award, and was named one of the best books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, the Times of London, the Guardian, and about a million other places. Alex earned their BA from Columbia, their MFA at Emerson College, and their JD at Harvard Law School. They’re now an assistant professor at Bowdoin College, and their next book, Both and Neither, is forthcoming from Doubleday. 

Together, we dive into this rollercoaster of a chapter: Laurie plays Cupid, makes a mess, and tries to enlist Jo in a plot to run away from home. Jo would, if she were a boy, but as she's a miserable girl... Well, maybe with this haircut... On second thought, yeah; we're running away to India together, and we're doing it as boys. Gender! Can't live with it, can't live without it.

Our cover art is by Mattie Lubchansky. It interpolates the cover art for Bethany C. Morrow's book "So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix," with permission from Macmillan Children's Publishing Group. It also interpolates the cover art for Hena Khan’s book “More to the Story,” with permission from Simon & Schuster. Our theme music is Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 16 in C Major. This episode was edited by Antoinette Smith and transcribed by Lou Balikos. 

A transcript of this episode is available here.

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