Two Bossy Dames

Two Bossy Dames Podcast On LADY BIRD and Coming-of-Age Stories

Posted by: twobossydames on 3 March 2018

Yaaaay! It’s a new episode of our Two Bossy Dames podcast, begun for Patreon, but continued now for all of you equally! In this episode, Margaret and Sophie discuss at length the perfection of Greta Gerwig’s Oscar-Nominated film Lady Bird, just in time for you to really dig in before the Academy Awards on Sunday (where it’s nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Original Screenplay, though not favored to win any). Then we extend the conversation by talking about some of our favorite coming of age stories.

Here’s the complete list of works mentioned during our Recommended Further Viewing & Reading section:

• Rushmore
  
• The Trouble with Angels
  
• Strike!
  
• Lucy and Linh by Alice Pung
  
• Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
  
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks and the Ruby Oliver series (starting with The Boyfriend List) by E. Lockhart
  
• Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman
  
• Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, starting with My Brilliant Friend
  

One note: This episode was taped in late 2017, before Daniel Handler’s history of persistently subjecting fellow authors to a wide array of inappropriate sexual comments was widely known (though this is not his first offense in the realm of deeply problematic jokes). If we recorded the episode today, we would still have recommended Why We Broke Up (which is as much a credit to Maira Kalman as it is to Handler), but we would not have done so without making note of these reports. Hence!