81. Hilma Wolitzer — Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket
Join us for a wonderfully funny and poignant conversation about life, death, and motherhood with award-winning writer Hilma Wolitzer. Her short stories, most of them originally appearing in magazines in the 1960s and 1970s, were re-discovered by her daughter, bestselling author Meg Wolitzer, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and published last summer in a new collection earning great critical acclaim. Today A Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket has received rave reviews from authors like Elizabeth Strout, Lauren Groff, and Tayari Jones and was named an NPR Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Editors’ Choice.
Discussed in this episode:
Today A Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket by Hilma Wolitzer (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021)
An Available Man by Hilma Wolitzer
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode with Anne Zimmerman on M.F.K. Fisher
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer
“Sometimes I Tell Myself” by Hilma Wolitzer
Other People’s Houses by Lore Segal
Her First American by Lore Segal
Small Moments by Nancy Huddleston Packer
The Dive from Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
The Devastating Boys by Elizabeth Taylor
Days and Nights in Calcutta by Bharati Mukherjee and Clark Blaise