172. Lucia Berlin — A Manual for Cleaning Women with Mimi Pond
Lucia Berlin has been called one of America's "best kept secrets.” We’ll be discussing Berlin’s engrossing short short story collection A Manual for Cleaning Women, published posthumously in 2015 and soon to be adapted for the screen by Pedro Almodovar. Joining us is a longtime friend of Berlin’s, the inimitable Mimi Pond, a cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Paris Review.
Discussed in this episode:
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
The Simpsons, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire”
A Manual for Cleaning Women adaptation (Pedro Almodovar)
The Customer Is Always Wrong by Mimi Pond
The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet the Spy with Leslie Brody