Women are Reading: a book club podcast

About Women are Reading: a book club podcast

Welcome to Women are Reading, the book club podcast hosted by sisters Margaret and Katie. Join them every week as they discuss the books they're reading together and apart, featuring a wide range of genres from gothic horror and romance to fantasy and literary fiction. 📚 join the book club! https://fable.co/club/women-are-reading-with-ktroar-494353655426 socials instagram: @womenare_readingpod

Publisher

Margaret and Katie Roarty

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

7 Feb 2025

Latest episode

16 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

42 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 Oct 2026

   Season 2 Episode 8 A Conversation with Megan Mary Moore, author of The Girl in the Pipes

   Megan Mary Moore writes in Cincinnati and lives in fairy princess fever dream. Though she holds an MFA in Poetry from Miami University. The Girl in The Pipes (Unsolicited Press, 2026) is her debut novel. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. The Girl in The Pipes (Unsolicited Press, 2026) is her debut novel.

2. 

   24 Jul 2026

   Season 2 Episode 7: a conversation with Julie Gerstenblatt, author of The Stargazer of Nantucket

   In this episode, we are joined by a very special guest, author Julie Gerstenblatt, whose latest novel, The Stargazer of Nantucket, was released in June. The novel follows an ensembl cast of characters, including 18-year-old Winifred Starbuck, daughter of renowned merchant captains Nell and Peter Starbuck, who longs to join her parents on their final voyage to China in 1851. Forbidden from the journey, Winnie takes matters into her own hands and stows away with them, sailing straight into danger and deception to confront a family secret that could change everything. Gerstenblatt's previous novel, Daughters of Nantucket, won the New England Society Book Award for Fiction.She holds a doctorate in curriculum and instruction from Teachers College, Columbia University and has taught everything from middle school English to graduate studies.  Her essays have appeared in Huffington Post and Grown & Flown, among others. A native New Yorker who has been visiting Nantucket since childhood, Julie now lives in coastal Rhode Island with her family and one very smart shichon poo.

3. 

   1 May 2026

   Season 2 Episode 6 A Conversation with Lucy Ashe, Author of The Model Patient

   In this episode, we are joined by a very special guest, author Lucy Ash, whose latest novel, The Model Patient, was just released in April. Ash's first two novels, The Dance of the Dolls and The Sleeping Beauties, were inspired by her years immersed in the world of classical dance, while The Model Patient draws on her personal experience as a therapy patient to explore the psychology of power, trust, and self-erasure. Ash is a Brooklyn-based writer who trained at the Royal Ballet School before changing course to study English literature at Oxford University, where she graduated in 2010. Her poetry and short stories have been published in a number of literary journals and she was shortlisted for the 2020 Impress Prize for New Writers. She also reviews theater and particularly ballet, writing for the website playstoc.com.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 31 / 100

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Quality

49

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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