69. Margery Latimer — We Are Incredible with Joy Castro

Novelist and university professor Joy Castro joins us to discuss Margery Latimer, an all-but-forgotten early 20th century writer whose work has been compared to D.H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, and James Joyce. We’re discussing Latimer’s mind-blowingly brilliant book from 1928, We Are Incredible, as well as Latimer’s fraught friendship with another lost lady of lit, Zona Gale.

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We Are Incredible by Margery Latimer

“On the Life and Unrecognized Work of Margery Latimer, Visionary Modernist Writer” by Joy Castro (Lithub)

Flight Risk by Joy Castro

Jean Toomer

Friendship Village by Zona Gale

Carl Rakosi

Kenneth Fearing

Georgia O'Keeffe

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing