Danielle Henderson, author of the memoir "The Ugly Cry" and tv writer on shows like "Maniac" starring Emma Stone, joins host Joshua Turek to talk about living on a farm in upstate New York to keep her grandmother company. She revisits the toxic time capsule that was the 80's by reading the Motley Crue tell-all and how she found an awakening in intersectional feminism after going back to school at 30 and reading bell hooks. Josh talks about how the new Miranda July divorce novel upset him more than the dystopian books he's been reading it.

CHICAGO come see Joshua perform stand up comedy at The Comedy Bar 11/8/24 and 11/9/24 https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/november-8-9-joshua-turek-3613879 and catch his poetry book at joshuaturek.com and new free Substack here https://substack.com/@joshuaturek

For more on Danielle Henderson check her out here http://daniellehenderson.net/

Books talked about include:

Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart

Bad Pharma - Ben Goldacre

All Fours - Miranda July

The Dirt - Motley Crue

The Road - Cormac Mccarthy

Feminist Theory from margin to center - bell hooks

Killing the Black Body - Dorothy Roberts

Angela Davis Books - All of them, Abolition Democracy, Freedom is a Constant Struggle

Amelia Gray - Museum of the Weird

The Sellout - Paul Beatty

Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs

Villette - Charlotte Bronte

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