Loyalty Bookstores owner Hannah Oliver Depp returns to discuss our June book club pick Oreo by Fran Ross. We talk about the history and context of this 1974 satire, including the story of Fran Ross herself. We wonder how to categorize this novel about a Black and Jewish teenaged girl who finds her self in man precarious situations, and we ask what to make of a book that pokes fun at just about everyone.
There are spoilers in this episode.
Be sure to listen to the end of today’s episode to find out what our book club pick will be for July 2023.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
- Oreo by Fran Ross
- Loyalty Bookstores
- Theseus
- Oreo by Fran Ross (audiobook)
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Burt Shevelove and Stephen Sondheim
- Samuel Beckett
- James Joyce
- Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
- Donald Barthelme
- Ann Grifalconi
- Greyfalcon House Publishing
- Paul Beatty
- Danzy Senna
- Marlon James
- Mat Johnson
- “An Overlooked Classic About the Comedy of Race” (Danzy Senna, The New Yorker)
- “Review: ‘Oreo,’ a Sandwich-Cookie of a Feminist Comic Novel” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times)
- Toni Morrison
- Roots by Alex Haley
- Roots Miniseries (ABC)
- Richard Pryor
- Janelle Monáe
- ‘picaresque’ definition
- Robin Miles
- The Trees by Percival Everett
- Emmett Till
- Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume
- Push by Sapphire
- “The Great Deflector” (Scott Saul, LA Review of Books)
- Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
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