Conversations with Friends

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The Req Room with Mandy and Mio

Mio Borromeo and Mandy Cruz

18 episodes

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A book podcast that asks the question: when does a writer’s work become required reading? Every other week, The Req Room hosts Mio Borromeo and Mandy Cruz take popular authors of the day and review each entry in their bibliographies, to see just how close these writers get to the sweet spot between mainstream breakout success and traditional literary sensibility.

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Conversations with Friends

The Req Room with Mandy and Mio

1 hour 32 minutes 4 seconds

5 years ago

Conversations with Friends

Welcome to The Req Room! In our first ever episode, we dive deep into Conversations with Friends (2017), the debut novel from Irish literary wunderkind Sally Rooney. Is Rooney really the "First Great Millennial Author"? While trying to answer the question, we call for more PCOS representation, wonder why some people send memes in emails, bawl over the difficulties of getting started as a writer, and discuss how Rooney's writing revamps some of the most timeless themes in English language literature.

tw: descriptions of self-harm (from 1:09:43 to 1:11:56); cw: spoilers

Show notes: Emily Temple's Let’s All Stop Pigeonholing Sally Rooney as a “Millennial Writer” on LitHub

Our theme music: 64 Sundays by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/