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Lit Up Lit Up with Angela Ledgerwood is a podcast about books, writers and all things literary.

From the writers they love to read to the writers they happen to love, Angela goes beyond the book and ask authors who are sparking the world's cultural conversations what they're reading, what they are thinking, and what inspires them. This isn’t a talk show about process or literary theory, but instead explores how what we read reflects how we live. Angela Ledgerwood began her career interviewin

g artists for Interview Magazine before becoming an editor at Cosmopolitan, where she wrote and edited articles devoted to news and books. Emily Gould is the author of the novel, Friendship and essay collection, And the Heart Says Whatever. She also is the co-founder of Emily Books, the online independent bookstore.

25/08/2023

Prachi Gupta graces the pod this week to talk about her much-anticipated memoir THEY CALLED US EXCEPTIONAL that explores how the quest for the American dream impacted her Indian American family. Prachi’s book puts words to inexplicable feelings and investigates the impact of family secrets and ultimately the price of emotional freedom. This is a tender and insightful conversation and Prachi’s work will be a healing gift to those who need it. 💕

05/05/2023

Always a treat to stumble upon a thoughtfully curated independent bookshop like (the brick-and-mortar shop from ) in Santa Monica, as our Editorial & Marketing consultant did today! Their shelves are imaginatively organized by mood & theme, with many rows of books hand-selected by friends of Lit Up, like .fitzgerald. Also spotted: books by former guests & ! We’ll be back, Zibby’s! 🩵📚🌴🩵

07/02/2023

This week, we’d like to recommend a new reading list by Jennifer Maritza McCauley (), author of the newly arrived collection When Trying to Return Home, out from , whose stories span a century of Black American and Afro-Latino life in Puerto Rico, Pittsburgh, Louisiana, Miami, and beyond. Jennifer’s list, published by Electric Literature (), features 10 Afro-Latina poets, fiction writers, and memoirists whose work explores multifaceted experiences of inhabiting multiple identities.

Recommendations include Jasminne Mendez (), Houston-based, Dominican-American poet and author of the personal essay and poetry collection Night-Blooming Jasmin(n)e (from ); Yesenia Montilla (), author of the poetry collections The Pink Box and Muse Found in a Colonized Body (Willow Books); and Amina Gautier, author of the short story collection The Loss of All Lost Thing (Elixir Press), among many writers and reads we’re excited about.

(We’ve linked to the full list in our Stories!)

What are you currently reading & loving right now? Let us know! ✨

27/01/2023

Dear friends, we already know this of course! delves into the psychological nitty gritty of the person who disregards books…

11/01/2023

Welcome to a new year of Lit Up! ✨

This week I’m excited to share my recent conversation with Tarajia Morrell (), food & travel writer and founder of The Lovage, a blog dedicated to her “lifelong love affair with food.”

Tarajia has a gift for finding remarkable characters through food, and her sensibilities as a writer were shaped in part growing up in a household where cooking and sharing meals were the most important parts of the day—“how love was expressed.”

Much of our conversation focuses on Tarajia’s deeply meaningful collaboration with the late chef Fatima Ali on Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More, her posthumous memoir exploring food and adventure, illness and mortality, with contributions by Fatima’s mother, Farezeh.

Later in the episode, we also swap tips for the perfect roast chicken as we make our way through these last winter months.🕯️🥘🧡

Settle in, enjoy, and we’ll be back with more in two weeks!

20/12/2022

It’s Lit Up’s final episode of the year! Of course, we couldn’t leave you without some stellar book recs to gift this holiday season (or for any celebratory occasion, really)! Check out this episode’s show notes for the full list. 💝

This week I’m welcoming special guest Ruby Smith, my colleague at Sugar23 Books, former NYC bookseller, and one of the most voracious readers I have the pleasure to know, to share her recommendations with us!

Listeners, we also invite you to share a new favorite book you discovered in 2022 in the comments 🔮

From all of us at Lit Up: thank you, thank you for listening this year, supporting independent bookshops, celebrating the writers & readers in your life, and continuing to support the show. Here’s to a very bright new year, filled with the kind of writing that bring us more clarity, wisdom, & delight. More from us in 2023! 🥂

09/08/2022

Today on Lit Up I’m joined by my friend, the one & only Isaac Fitzgerald (.fitzgerald), in celebration of his brilliant new memoir-in-essays, Dirtbag, Massachusetts ().
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Why did he wait a decade to write this book? What fresh perspectives on the messiness, complexity, and beauty of human relationships revealed themselves in the time and space between 25 39? ⏳💛⌛️Let Isaac explain, as only he can, and then pick up a copy of his book at your favorite local bookshop or via

Can’t wait for you to hear this one!

26/07/2022

Earlier this summer, I had the distinct pleasure of chatting with award-winning poet Safia Elhillo () for Lit Up!⚡️

In this week’s episode, we talk about where personal style and poetry intersect; expanding notions of home and belonging; and being a poet in all aspects of one’s unfolding life. 🔸

In Safia’s latest poetry collection, GIRLS THAT NEVER DIE ( / 2022), she explores Muslim girlhood, shame, the violences enacted and imagined against women's bodies, and liberation from these constraints, with great care, honesty, and imagination. As the author Ilya Kaminsky wrote of Safia’s work: “When I open a new book by Safia Elhillo, I know there will be fearlessness and beauty. There will be a voice that contains multitudes and yet is original and memorable in its daring […] Elhillo’s is a voice that walks into the future.” 🌟

Can’t wait for you to hear our conversation—featuring a reading of one of my favorite poems, “Ode To My Homegirls” 💛

p.s. you can purchase a copy of this collection, and all of Safia’s books—including Home Is Not A Country and The January Children—at your favorite local bookstore or through at the link in bio!

12/07/2022

It’s a special week here on Lit Up - we’re sharing a summer cross-over episode with fellow book lover, literary agent, and podcast host (not to mention excellent mixologist) Christopher Hermelin () of So Many Damn Books! ()!

If you’ve yet to check out Christopher’s show, featuring author guests paired with custom cocktails inspired by their books, consider this your invitation to add another wonderful literary podcast to your queue. (New episodes drop bi-weekly!)

Christopher and I chat about how to get out of a reading rut🔸the pleasures of revisiting beloved books from childhood🔸summer reading plans & more. Such a delight! We’ve also compiled a list of books discussed in our show notes. 🌞

And after you finish this ep, there’s more: you can listen to *my* half of the conversation on the feed!

Enjoy it all, and we’ll be back with more in late July. 💛

29/06/2022

Lit Up listeners, I’m thrilled that Lisa Taddeo (THREE WOMEN, ANIMAL) joins me for a third (!) conversation, this time to talk about her new short story collection, GHOST LOVER (). Lisa has an uncanny ability to tap into deep truths of love, desire, and the complexity of womanhood in her writing—it’s what has drawn me and so many readers to follow her work over the years, wherever she dares to take us next.

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In light of Friday’s devastating Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, we’ve also linked to several abortion funds in the show notes of this week’s episode. If you’re seeking tangible ways to support women, birthing people, and providers in need of immediate resources, we hope you will take a moment to donate. The Lit Up team and I stand in solidarity with everyone fighting for the right to a safe, legal abortion and access to reproductive health care across the U.S.

Hope you enjoy this episode 💛Sending extra care this week.

31/05/2022

Lit Up friends, this week I’m excited to share my deeply nourishing, heart-opening chat with the wise and wonderful Elizabeth Day (), brilliant journalist, broadcaster, and author. Whether you’re already an avid listener (as I am!) of Elizabeth’s podcast How To Fail (), which celebrates the things that *haven’t* gone right in life, or discovered her through her latest book, a twisty domestic thriller called MAGPIE (, simonandschuster), I hope you enjoy—perhaps even relate to—our honest, expansive conversation about our respective journeys, failures, trusting our instincts, and the ongoing process of better understanding ourselves 🌿💛 link to listen in stories!

17/05/2022

Today on Lit Up…the one, the only, Zarqa Nawaz ()! 🔥

Could not be more excited that JAMEELA GREEN RUINS EVERYTHING (; ), Zarqa’s debut novel, is officially out in the world for all of you to read, and our conversation is the perfect entry point into the book and her work. Zarqa—creator of hit CBC comedy series, Little Mosque on the Prairie, and star of ZARQA, a new comedy web series, to name a few projects—tells incredibly funny, smart, complex stories across mediums that challenge and subvert stereotypes about Muslim women and communities, starts conversations, and moves culture forward in the process.

🎬 Stream on ,📚pick up a copy of JAMEELA GREEN RUINS EVERYTHING at lituppodcast dot com and🎙listen to our brilliant chat this week!

p.s. New Yorkers, want to catch Zarqa live? She’ll be at this Friday night, 7pm EST, in conversation with media & cultural critic Sana Saeed (). Hope to see you there!

11/04/2022

Have you heard my latest conversation with Pamela Paul () yet? 💫🎙

Hers is one of the most well-known voices in the book world, as longtime host of The Book Review Podcast from Pamela joins me to talk:

✨resisting the urge to optimize time (all the time)

✨100 Things We've Lost to the Internet, her latest book (Crown / )

✨transitioning into her new role as a columnist

✨buying a one-way ticket to Thailand and the joys of solo travel

✨passing on a love of getting lost in books & how to raise lifelong readers

Listen on your podcast feed of choice 💫 More from Lit Up next week!

18/03/2022

Clothes, cocktails, and being in the world. writes about all 3 with such warmth and joy, and is equally delightful on our most recent episode. Link in bio!

11/03/2022

Ah! So much to relish in this chat with which includes bonding over lonely childhoods in the suburbs and our subsequent immersion in NYC, why one must have good house clothes, hai drink club called The Beardo Crew and his new book THE SPRAWL: Reconsidering the Weird American Suburbs …

Jason, thank you for being you!

01/03/2022

Have you heard our episode with Sheila Heti yet? Here’s just a few of the beautiful nuggets she dropped. Episode link in bio. Sheila’s book Pure Color is available now from .

25/02/2022

Start your weekend off with Sheila Heti and her snoring pup Feldman in your earbuds. Link in bio.

Sheila’s book, Pure Color, is available now. Get it on our website!

24/02/2022

I relished learning about natural wine from (aka Rachel Singer) in her memoir YOU HAD ME AT PÉT-NAT, not to mention her journey from New York to Paris to the South Australian hills. Let’s pod about it please!! Thank you for the stellar recommendation and

Also, I think you and Rachel might need to collaborate on something for .press & 🍷🌾🐨

13/02/2022

My dear friend and nemesis 😜 is finally on the pod in all her glory. Listen in and you’ll hear her talk about finding her voice as one of eight siblings, what subjects (such as immigration and climate justice) increasingly underpin her work, and her brilliant new book TELL EVERYONE ON THIS TRAIN I LOVE THEM

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Earlier this summer, I had the distinct pleasure of chatting with award-winning poet Safia Elhillo (@safiamafia) for Lit Up!⚡️ In this week’s episode, we talk about where personal style and poetry intersect; expanding notions of home and belonging; and being a poet in all aspects of one’s unfolding life. 🔸 In Safia’s latest poetry collection, GIRLS THAT NEVER DIE (@oneworldbooks / @randomhouse 2022), she explores Muslim girlhood, shame, the violences enacted and imagined against women's bodies, and liberation from these constraints, with great care, honesty, and imagination. As the author Ilya Kaminsky wrote of Safia’s work: “When I open a new book by Safia Elhillo, I know there will be fearlessness and beauty. There will be a voice that contains multitudes and yet is original and memorable in its daring […] Elhillo’s is a voice that walks into the future.” 🌟 Can’t wait for you to hear our conversation—featuring a reading of one of my favorite poems, “Ode To My Homegirls” 💛 p.s. you can purchase a copy of this collection, and all of Safia’s books—including Home Is Not A Country and The January Children—at your favorite local bookstore or through @bookshop_org at the link in bio!

It’s a special week here on Lit Up - we’re sharing a summer cross-over episode with fellow book lover, literary agent, and podcast host (not to mention excellent mixologist) Christopher Hermelin (@cdhermelin) of So Many Damn Books! (@SoManyDamnBooks)! If you’ve yet to check out Christopher’s show, featuring author guests paired with custom cocktails inspired by their books, consider this your invitation to add another wonderful literary podcast to your queue. (New episodes drop bi-weekly!) Christopher and I chat about how to get out of a reading rut🔸the pleasures of revisiting beloved books from childhood🔸summer reading plans & more. Such a delight! We’ve also compiled a list of books discussed in our show notes. 🌞 And after you finish this ep, there’s more: you can listen to *my* half of the conversation on the @SoManyDamnBooks feed! Enjoy it all, and we’ll be back with more in late July. 💛

Today on Lit Up…the one, the only, Zarqa Nawaz (@therealzarqa)! 🔥 Could not be more excited that JAMEELA GREEN RUINS EVERYTHING (@sugar23books; @harperbooks), Zarqa’s debut novel, is officially out in the world for all of you to read, and our conversation is the perfect entry point into the book and her work. Zarqa—creator of hit CBC comedy series, Little Mosque on the Prairie, and star of ZARQA, a new comedy web series, to name a few projects—tells incredibly funny, smart, complex stories across mediums that challenge and subvert stereotypes about Muslim women and communities, starts conversations, and moves culture forward in the process. 🎬 Stream #ZARQA on @cbcgem,📚pick up a copy of JAMEELA GREEN RUINS EVERYTHING at lituppodcast dot com and🎙listen to our brilliant chat this week! p.s. New Yorkers, want to catch Zarqa live? She’ll be at @strandbookstore this Friday night, 7pm EST, in conversation with media & cultural critic Sana Saeed (@sanaface). Hope to see you there!

Have you heard my latest conversation with Pamela Paul (@pamelapaul2018) yet? 💫🎙 Hers is one of the most well-known voices in the book world, as longtime host of The Book Review Podcast from @nytimes Pamela joins me to talk: ✨resisting the urge to optimize time (all the time) ✨100 Things We've Lost to the Internet, her latest book (Crown / @penguinrandomhouse) ✨transitioning into her new role as a @nytopinion columnist ✨buying a one-way ticket to Thailand and the joys of solo travel ✨passing on a love of getting lost in books & how to raise lifelong readers Listen on your podcast feed of choice 💫 More from Lit Up next week!

Ah! So much to relish in this chat with @imjasondiamond which includes bonding over lonely childhoods in the suburbs and our subsequent immersion in NYC, why one must have good house clothes, hai drink club called The Beardo Crew and his new book THE SPRAWL: Reconsidering the Weird American Suburbs @coffeehousepress … Jason, thank you for being you!

Start your weekend off with Sheila Heti and her snoring pup Feldman in your earbuds. Link in bio. Sheila’s book, Pure Color, is available now. Get it on our website!

My dear friend and nemesis 😜 @maeveinamerica is finally on the pod in all her glory. Listen in and you’ll hear her talk about finding her voice as one of eight siblings, what subjects (such as immigration and climate justice) increasingly underpin her work, and her brilliant new book TELL EVERYONE ON THIS TRAIN I LOVE THEM @penguinbooks #maeveHiggins #comedy #climateaction #immigration #goodreads #lituppodcast

Reading ANN PATCHETT’s work is a lesson on how to live and how to love. I hope this conversation gives you a glimpse of her genius. Take a listen here: https://www.lituppodcast.com/episode/029 Her masterful new collection of essays THESES PRECIOUS DAYS is out now. You can order through her bookstore @parnassusbooks #thesepreciousdays #annpatchett #lituppodcast #litup #essays #writersofinstagram #writer #reading #goodreads @parnassusbooks

New episode alert featuring award-winning author Jess Walter! You’ll hear about: ✨The inspiration behind his novel, The Cold Millions ✨How to make the best Manhattan ✨Wealth inequality in the Gilded Age ✨The history of organizing in Spokane, Washington and why it resonates today #lituppodcast #jesswalter #thecoldmillions #booklover

Lit Up Episode 002: Jen Silverman

On this episode, I speak with Jen Silverman about her new novel, We Play Ourselves, inspired by her own life as an award-winning playwright—minus the scandals! You can expect to hear about: ✨ The blurred boundaries of a creative life ✨ Women claiming their right to express anger ✨ Why Jen draws sad pandas ✨ And of course, what lights Jen up!

Check out my exclusive chat with author Jenny Zhang

Check out my exclusive chat with author Jenny Zhang. She caught the eye of Lena Dunham and now Jenny's debut collection of short stories is the first book to be published by The Girls creator’s Lenny imprint at Random House. http://thelitupshow.com/episode-112-jenny-zhang-on-chinese-american-immigrant-culture-shock-family-expectations-freeing-her-voice/

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