Episode 01: Replace Hawthorne with Jesmyn Ward, Celeste Ng & Elizabeth George Speare
Nathaniel’s Hathorne’s The Scarlet Letter has been read a billion times. Replace that worn-out thing with these far superior thematic-adjacent novels, written by women who don’t throw tantrums and blame their literary success or failure on whatever men are up to:
Celeset Ng * Little Fires Everywhere * Everything I Never Told You
Jesmyn Ward * Salvage the Bones * Men We Reaped * Sing, Unburied, Sing
Elizabeth George Speare * The Witch of Blackbird Pond
* CORRECTION * Ta-Nehisi Coates’s name is pronounced (TAH-nə-HAH-see KOHTS) NOT with the nervous ‘sh’ sound Leigh dropped in there instead and then was stupid with editing. Good god. Our sincerest apologies.
Additional Sources
The Damned Mob Of Scribbling Women The Atlantic June 3rd 2011 Ta-Nehisi Coats
Wikipedia as always we love you
Goodreads
Author Debra Brenegan